Job Description
The OpportunityNetflix recently opened an LA-based facility, Vine Studios, to house its animation series studio. This space offers collaborative review spaces, premium offline edit bays, and a screening room. We are building an engineering and technical support team to facilitate these spaces for a wide variety of corporate and production use cases.
The RoleThis position sits at the intersection of Production Technology and Post Services. Not only will you lead the engineering and technical support team at Vine Studios, you will provide color workflow guidance to our digital productions, ensuring color consistency throughout the production pipeline. Your team will consist of two highly skilled engineers to provide expertise and support to our productions and creative artists, ensuring our in-house facilities are fully optimized and continue to evolve to meet the creative demands of our content creators. This role will require strong working partnerships with our other key engineering teams across the Studio and Product organizations to ensure optimum support to our productions working in the Animation Studios, as well as the development and evolution of our internal tools, platforms, and technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have experience collaborating with software developers and manufacturers, providing feedback and knowledge of real-world Animation Production challenges.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for the smooth running of the technical infrastructure and operations at Vine Studios, home of Netflix Animation Series.
• Provide color workflow guidance to our digital productions, content partners, and creative artists working remotely and at Vine Studios.
• Manage a support team to provide off-site and on-site support of our specialty spaces, ensuring functionality, best practices, and color consistency.
• Create a cross-training program for your team to allow them to support each other during periods of heavy work and vacations
• Works directly with Netflix Production Management and Post Management to determine and advise technical solutions for our digital productions.
• Define, refine and evolve the engineering and technology support structure, both for on-premise and off-premise requirements, with our specialist engineering teams in Studio and Product.
• Provide real-world perspective, setting the context, parameters, and business requirements, for our Studio and Product Team partners to provide Tier 2 & 3 levels of support.
• Partner with other engineering stakeholder teams to develop and evolve tools, platforms, and workflows that meet the challenges and demands of the business in the future state.
• Ensure the network is optimized at Vine Studios to business requirements at all times, partnering closely with our Tier 2 internal engineering teams to tightly define and refine responsibilities and SLAs to ensure smooth operational running.
• Provide on-site preventative maintenance and calibration to technical infrastructure to ensure optimum performance.
• Capture and analyze support requests to recognize trends over time.
Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in production/post engineering and/or technology roles in Animation Production or Visual Effects.
• Knowledge of the technical and artistic aspects of animation as well as understanding of 2D and CG pipelines.
• Deep knowledge and experience of digital production and post-production workflows encompassing Non-Linear editing, Color Science, Picture, and Audio mastering.
• Strong relationships and hands-on knowledge of key Industry Manufacturers, their tools, and software, such as Avid, Adobe Premiere, and SyncSketch.
• Understanding of networking (switched IP protocols, DNS, ports), network storage, and workstation architectures and how they relate to and optimize production and post-production workflows and media management.
• Experience across Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems and workstation hardware, workstation hardware (GPU's, memory, etc.) and the Google Tool Suite.
• Ability to respectfully engage with creative executives and content creators.
• Ability to manage and operate in ambiguous situations and think on your feet to solve challenges and problems.
• Strong communication skills with proven ability to socialize, explain and ''sell'' technology, tools, and workflows clearly, verbally, and in written form.
• Proven track record of innovation, initiative, ideation, and implementation.
• Experience with instituting quality management frameworks and process improvement.
• Experience working with diverse teams across multiple functions, skills, and locations.
• Strong organizational skills with a proactive mentality, positive orientation, and outlook.
• Experience in leading, mentoring, and training direct reports and partners.
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