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Director, Content Production

California, United States (On-site)

Director, Content Production

2 Hours ago • 10 Years + • Game Production • Undisclosed

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Job Description

The Director of Content Production at Eyeline Studios (Scanline VFX's virtual production division) oversees all aspects of production, from bidding and planning to execution and delivery. This senior leadership role requires managing producers, establishing workflows for diverse projects, fostering collaboration with internal and external teams (including Netflix), and ensuring projects meet the highest standards. Responsibilities include budget management, technological collaboration, client relationship building, team mentorship, and overseeing project bidding. The ideal candidate is a proven leader with extensive VFX/virtual production experience, strong communication and negotiation skills, and a passion for team development.

Must have:

Proven VFX/VP production leadership
Collaboration with multiple stakeholders
Deep understanding of production pipelines
Excellent communication skills
Strong organizational & scheduling skills
Resourceful problem-solving abilities
10+ years producing experience
Team leadership (50+ people)

Eyeline Studios

At Eyeline, Scanline VFX's virtual production division, we want to provide you with a solid foundation where you can be a part of an innovative team of brilliant researchers, developers and virtual storytellers. Learn more.

Eyeline Studios serves as the central hub of innovation for Netflix and its partners with the goal of empowering the creators with unparalleled creative and technical capabilities to share their vision with audiences across the globe. Our studio is strategically positioned to give filmmakers early access to our latest innovations to not only help execute their vision but also to have them help shape those capabilities to better serve the global community of storytellers.

To effectively serve the needs of the business as well as our partners, the role of the Director of Content Production is being created to oversee the Eyeline production team in all aspects of production including bidding, planning, execution, and delivery of our engagements.

The Director’s role is to oversee all Eyeline Producers and provide the Production workflow structure for a wide variety of projects. In this senior leadership role, they will provide an environment where the production team can excel in leading challenging projects and achieving exceptional results.

This role will work closely with the internal & external teams including Virtual Production, VFX, Research, pipeline and development to maintain a positive working relationship and facilitate innovative solutions for all production needs.

The Director of Content Production will be a proven leader, with a deep knowledge of the VFX, Virtual Production, and emerging workflows and a developing knowledge and industry changing innovations. They will demonstrate expert negotiation skills, business acumen and a passion for coaching and production crew development. They must be able to juggle multiple responsibilities and reconcile competing priorities. They will be able to adapt to change while remaining productive and focused on long term goals.

Responsibilities

Maintains an overview of all projects ensuring projects are completed to the highest standard achievable
Maintains a deep partnership with Production Finance to assess EFC / Margins on our projects that will have revenue attached to them.
Manages new project set up workflows and procedures, ensuring proper forecasting and reporting to Finance and Resource Management
Work directly with technology development: Software, IT, Hardware and Robotics, in order to assure development of goals are aligned with Production needs.
Cultivate strong, collaborative relationships between the Production Team and all Clients and Stakeholders including Scanline VFX, Netflix, and Eyeline Research teams
Lead an aligned cross-functional internal team supporting multiple projects and competing schedules.
Build systems and manage all calendars and schedules to provide transparency
Maintains close communication and alignment with business development staff on all potential revenue projects
Supervise and mentor all Eyeline Producers and core production team at both a project and career level
Responsible for overseeing all project bidding for Eyeline work, including both Eyeline and Eyeline shared projects with Scanline VFX
Is the key point of escalation for Eyeline projects and work done in the Eyeline innovation space

Qualifications

Proven experience in a VFX Producer, or Virtual Production Producer role with an emphasis on leadership
Proven experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders across business units
Thorough understanding of production pipelines and post-production in general
Excellent communication skills required, both written and verbal
Must have strong organizational skills
Must have strong scheduling, tracking, and resource management skills
Must be collaborative and a resourceful and creative problem solver
Requires a self-starter with a high level of initiative
At least 10 years of producing experience
Experience leading teams of at least fifty (50) or more people
Extremely organized and proficient in overseeing multiple project schedules

About Us

Scanline VFX is an award-winning leader in the visual effects industry with 7 studios worldwide, including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. Since our beginning in 1989, we strive to set the highest standard of quality in everything we do. Through innovation, we generate solutions for our clients and raise the bar — both within our workplace and throughout our industry.

We look for explorers, people who are willing to go to new places and are open to testing, learning and iterating as they go. We believe great ideas come from everyone, so we actively encourage team members to ask questions and present their ideas.

Powered by Netflix

Netflix’s investment in our pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows us to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, we continue to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients.

Come as you are

We are committed to ensuring fair and equal treatment of your application. When you apply for a role with us, you will receive consideration based solely on your qualifications.

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Scanline VFX

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Scanline VFX is an award-winning, global leader in the visual effects industry with studios in 7 core locations including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. From humble beginnings over 30 years ago, we’ve grown to a team of over 1,200 made up of diverse nationalities from around the world. We believe in the power of storytelling and are committed to helping filmmakers realize their artistic vision. Underpinned by a commitment to innovation, collaboration and long-standing partnerships, we continue to develop innovative tools, techniques and technologies, to offer filmmakers the ultimate in creative freedom. Eyeline Studios, Scanline’s virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility.

Netflix’s investment in Scanline’s pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows Scanline to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in VFX. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, Scanline continues to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients outside of Netflix.

Established in 1989 in Munich, Scanline became well-known for our ability to create photorealistic natural phenomena such as fire, smoke and water, having developed our proprietary fluid simulation software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, and was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award® for the software.