Associate Cinematic Producer

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Game Production • $67,008 PA - $142,160 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Associate Cinematic Producer at Lightspeed LA, you'll be a key player in bringing cinematics to life. Reporting to the Lead Cinematic Producer, you will manage both internal teams and external vendors, overseeing motion capture and cinematic pipelines. Responsibilities include facilitating communication, tracking deadlines, identifying blockers, collaborating across departments, maintaining schedules, and documenting progress. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in game production or project management, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and a positive, organized demeanor. Experience with project management software and working in a startup environment is essential.
Must have:
  • 3+ years game production/project management experience
  • Proficient in project management software (Excel, Shotgrid, etc.)
  • Excellent communication & problem-solving skills
  • Organized, positive attitude, adaptable to change
  • Ability to manage internal and external teams
  • Experience with cinematic animation pipelines
Good to have:
  • Experience building custom tracking in Shotgrid/Jira
  • Bachelor's degree
Perks:
  • Free daily lunch
  • Beverages, snacks, fresh fruit
  • 401k match
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Financial wellness sessions
  • Flexible spending account
  • Team building events
  • Parental leave
  • Company-paid health insurance
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Wellness training
  • Travel insurance
  • Preventive care

Job Details

About the Hiring Team

Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.

Why join Lightspeed LA?

For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.

● We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
● We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
● We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.

This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.

What the Role Entails

As an Associate Cinematic Producer, you’ll play a key role in bringing our cinematics to life. You’ll report to the Lead Cinematic Producer and work as a team in the management of both an internal Cinematic team and outsource vendors. This person will be well-versed in cinematics, motion capture processes and best practices, have experience working closely with outsource vendors, and can bring best-in-class organization and production methodologies to the team.

The Associate Cinematic Producer will ensure the smooth running of each cinematic project by facilitating communication and information sharing between artists, supervisors, departments, and vendors.  They will be very comfortable in a startup environment and comfortable building teams, pipelines, processes and good relationships with outsource vendors/studios to ensure the success of the project and of the studio as a whole.   This role currently requires a full-time in-office commitment of 5 days a week with some potential hybrid flexibility.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a passionate, organized, positive force by facilitating communication, organization, and alignment across your team and other departments.
  • Support the team’s production goals, ensuring key deadlines are understood across all departments. Track all deadlines and identify and call out blockers.
  • Collaborate with other departments to create, track, and follow up on all department-related dependencies.
  • Track and maintain the department’s overall schedule, including dependency dates and internal schedules.
  • Take meeting notes and proactively identify useful information during the meeting while helping keep the team’s documentation organized and up-to-date.

Who We Look For

  • 3+ years experience in a game production or project management role
  • Familiarity with standard project management & tracking software such as Excel, Shotgrid, Perforce, and Jira.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with a detail-oriented focus as well as the ability to convey information clearly and concisely
  • Exceptional problem solving and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work 5 days a week in the Irvine office
  • Ability to maintain a calm demeanor when expectations change, or things don’t go as planned
  • Ability to work and thrive in a startup environment knowing that not all tools or methodologies are fully established in all areas.

Pluses

  • Passion for video games
  • Experience working in a Cinematic Animation Pipeline from concept/script through final delivery
  • Experience building custom tracking and tasking pages in Shotgrid, Confluence, Jira
  • A bachelor’s degree

Why Join Us?

Perks and Benefits:

Just some of the benefits of working with us here at our newly built studio in Irvine, CA.

● Free daily lunch
● Beverages, fresh fruit, and snacks
● 401k with employer match
● Monthly Cell phone bill reimbursement
● Financial wellness sessions
● Flexible spending account
● Team building and company outings
● Parental leave for new parents
● Company paid health insurance
● Life and disability insurance
● Employee assistance program
● Wellness training
● Travel insurance
● Preventive care

If the above sounds like you, or if you'd like to know more about the role, we'd love to hear from you to see if we might be a good fit for each other! Contact us for more information about this exciting opportunity.

Location State(s)

California

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $33.0 to $68.5 per hour. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

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