2D Post Production Manager

Glitch Productions is seeking an experienced Post Production Manager to lead the post pipeline for our upcoming 2D series. In this role, you’ll oversee editorial, compositing, sound, colour, localization and final delivery, ensuring each stage meets schedule, technical requirements, and creative expectations. You’ll partner closely with the showrunner, directors, producers, and departmental leads while guiding post coordinators to keep workflows running smoothly. This position plays a key role in maintaining the show’s visual and audio quality, streamlining communication, and delivering polished episodes on time. Duties include supervising the post-production team, coordinating with various leads, building schedules, managing vendors, owning the delivery process, maintaining documentation, and ensuring adherence to technical specifications.

Must Have

• Supervise, lead and inspire the post production team to finalize, QC and render out animated shows.
• Coordinate with the showrunner, directors, producers, and animation leads to lock cuts, track revisions, and manage version control.
• Build and maintain realistic post schedules, anticipate bottlenecks, and reallocate resources when needed.
• Manage outsource vendors (audio, online, localization) and ensure assets are delivered to spec.
• Own the delivery process: final exports, QC checks, mastering, broadcast/streaming compliance, and archival.
• Maintain documentation: shot tracking, delivery logs, naming conventions, and workflow standards.
• Ensure the team adheres to technical specs and keep communication tight across editorial, compositing, and production.
• Experience in post production with 2D animation.
• Strong understanding of compositing, editing, and sound workflows.
• Proven ability to manage schedules, resources, and cross-department communication.
• Familiarity with QC processes, localization, mastering formats, and broadcast/streaming delivery specs.
• Experience working with asset/shot tracking tools.
• Understanding of colour management, codecs, file formats, and version control.
• Background in production management or post coordination is often expected.

Good to Have

• Sharp organisational skills and the ability to anticipate issues early.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• A calm, solution-focused approach under tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills that keep directors, editors, and compositors aligned.
• Confidence juggling multiple episodes or sequences simultaneously.
• High attention to detail—naming, file hygiene, QC, delivery accuracy.
• A collaborative mindset and respect for both creative and technical teams.
• Flexibility to adapt workflows as the project or pipeline evolves.
• An understanding or experience with the arts, animation, gaming, and/or ‘internet nerd’ culture.

Perks & Benefits

• A competitive starting salary with reviews every 6 months.
• A flexible work arrangement and schedule, with options for work from home and flexi-hours.
• A casual and fun office environment where individual input is valued.
• Regular work functions and free entry to conventions and events.
• Close to public transport in the heart of Parramatta CBD.
• Paid for gym memberships.
• Regular company breakfasts/lunches.
• A diverse team that values independent input and career development.

Working At Glitch

As an indie animation studio you'll find that we're a tight-knit team of high performing artists that just want to make cool things and have fun along the way.

Team members have a voice here at Glitch and are always welcome to offer their creative input and help sculpt our shows! If this sounds like a team you'd want to be a part of, consider applying!

About us:

Glitch Productions is an independent animation studio based in Australia making original, long form animated shows distributed on Youtube. Our channel has over 17 million subscribers, tens of millions of views per episode and is still growing strong. Our studio is filled with incredibly talented and passionate artists that are determined to change the way animation is produced and treated in the industry. Our biggest IP; Digital Circus, has amassed over 350 million views on the pilot alone and we have a lot more still to come.

Role Information:

Glitch Productions is seeking an experienced Post Production Manager to lead the post pipeline for our upcoming 2D series. In this role, you’ll oversee editorial, compositing, sound, colour, localization and final delivery, ensuring each stage meets schedule, technical requirements, and creative expectations. You’ll partner closely with the showrunner, directors, producers, and departmental leads while guiding post coordinators to keep workflows running smoothly. This position plays a key role in maintaining the show’s visual and audio quality, streamlining communication, and delivering polished episodes on time.

Your duties will include:

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise, lead and inspire the post production team to finalize, QC and render out animated shows
• Coordinate with the showrunner, directors, producers, and animation leads to lock cuts, track revisions, and manage version control.
• Build and maintain realistic post schedules, anticipate bottlenecks, and reallocate resources when needed.
• Manage outsource vendors (audio, online, localization) and ensure assets are delivered to spec.
• Own the delivery process: final exports, QC checks, mastering, broadcast/streaming compliance, and archival.
• Maintain documentation: shot tracking, delivery logs, naming conventions, and workflow standards.
• Ensure the team adheres to technical specs and keep communication tight across editorial, compositing, and production.

A successful candidate will have:

• Experience in post production with 2D animation
• Strong understanding of compositing, editing, and sound workflows (e.g., Adobe Suite, Toon Boom, Premiere, DaVinci, Avid).
• Proven ability to manage schedules, resources, and cross-department communication.
• Familiarity with QC processes, localization, mastering formats, and broadcast/streaming delivery specs.
• Experience working with asset/shot tracking tools (ShotGrid, FTrack, custom studio tools).
• Understanding of colour management, codecs, file formats, and version control.
• Background in production management or post coordination is often expected.

Bonus Skills:

• Sharp organisational skills and the ability to anticipate issues early.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• A calm, solution-focused approach under tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills that keep directors, editors, and compositors aligned.
• Confidence juggling multiple episodes or sequences simultaneously.
• High attention to detail—naming, file hygiene, QC, delivery accuracy.
• A collaborative mindset and respect for both creative and technical teams.
• Flexibility to adapt workflows as the project or pipeline evolves.
• An understanding or experience with the arts, animation, gaming, and/or ‘internet nerd’ culture.

What we offer:

• A competitive starting salary with reviews every 6 months.
• A flexible work arrangement and schedule, with options for work from home and flexi-hours.
• A casual and fun office environment where individual input is valued.
• Regular work functions and free entry to conventions and events.
• Close to public transport in the heart of Parramatta CBD.
• Paid for gym memberships.
• Regular company breakfasts/lunches.
• A diverse team that values independent input and career development.

Our values

Glitch Productions has an art-first mindset. Regardless of which team we’re in, every single team member’s core mission is to create the best art possible, and delight our audience that has given us so much. We achieve this mission through our values:

Passion: First and foremost, every team member has a passion for the work we do and why we do it. It’s what allows us to contribute our creative energy, pitch new concepts, and give everything we make a personal touch that resonates with our fans.

Innovation: From cobbling together sets in a living room, to inventing new pipelines using breakthrough technology, we have always had a focus on innovation and new ideas. We always try to push the boundaries of our industry and keep things fresh and exciting for both the team and our audience.

Teamwork: Animation takes a big team of incredibly talented people and everyone is always ready to pitch in and lend a hand. We believe that our diversity and range of skills are what allows us to create works none of us could do on our own.

Integrity: Our integrity is the heart of our core mission. It’s what allows us to do right for our projects and for each other.

At Glitch Productions, we’re passionate about fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects our values as a creative studio.

We hire based on skills, passion and potential, and celebrate the diverse perspectives that make our team stronger. We welcome people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, educational backgrounds, abilities, and experiences.

Simply put, if you’re a good person and share our passion for animation, we want to hear from you!