Project Manager (Stage Projects)

3 Months ago • 7 Years + • Project Management • $100,000 PA - $180,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Project Manager will lead cross-functional projects, ensuring they align with business goals and are delivered successfully. Responsibilities include establishing project scope, managing stakeholder communication, escalating challenges, optimizing resource allocation, and facilitating the integration of stage hardware and workflows. The Project Manager will also ensure reporting follows best practices and support operational handovers. They will also partner with Product Management, and provide project management guidance to non-PMO-led initiatives, offering best practices to help teams structure and manage their projects effectively. This role requires being execution-driven and agile.
Must have:
  • Lead cross-functional projects from initiation to completion
  • Manage stakeholder communication, keeping all business units informed
  • Optimize resource allocation based on project needs
Good to have:
  • Experience managing projects across different lifecycles
  • Experience working with stage hardware and virtual production technology
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to lead and align multi-disciplinary teams

Job Details

The Project Manager role serves as the cornerstone of the Project Management Office, reporting to the VP, Program Management. This role is intended to serve our global business leading cross-functional initiatives, ensuring projects stay on track, aligned with business priorities, and successfully delivered. Sitting at the center of multiple teams and business units, the Project Manager will need to be execution-driven, and be responsible for balancing competing priorities, managing stakeholder expectations, and driving deliverables while being agile.


Key responsibilities
  • Lead cross-functional projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with initiatives’ goals
  • Turn greenlit initiatives into structured projects, establishing scope, timelines, and deliverables in collaboration with identified stakeholders
  • Manage stakeholder communication, keeping all business units informed, aligned, and engaged throughout the project lifecycle
  • Proactively escalate challenges to key business leaders, assess possible scenarios, and develop potential solutions with trade-offs to support informed decision-making
  • Optimize resource allocation, ensuring the right people and digital resources (e.g., GPU allocation, render capacity, infrastructure) are assigned based on project needs and availability
  • Facilitate the integration of stage hardware, camera workflows, and technical infrastructure required for projects, by coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring seamless collaboration
  • Work closely with stage operations teams, engineers, and creative production teams to ensure alignment between physical and digital production processes
  • Ensure reporting follows best practices, providing visibility into project status, key milestones, and risks
  • Support operational handovers, ensuring a seamless transition to long-term owners such as operations and production teams
  • Partner with Product Management to align on strategy while collaborating on leadership, stakeholder management, roadmaps, risk, and key metricFacilitate the integration of stage hardware, camera workflows, and technical infrastructure by coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring seamless collaborations to drive success
  • Provide project management guidance to non-PMO-led initiatives, offering best practices, frameworks, and tools to help teams structure and manage their projects effectively, even when a dedicated Project Manager is not assigned


Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Strong understanding of core project management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches; PMP, Scrum Master, or other relevant certifications are a plus
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in Visual Effects, Stage Operations, or Production Technology, with at least 3 years in a project management capacity
  • Experience managing projects across different lifecycles, including software development, creative production (e.g., VFX, animation, design), operational process improvements, infrastructure deployments, and product launches
  • Experience working with stage hardware, virtual production technology, or on-set production tools, including LED volumes, motion capture systems, camera tracking, and real-time rendering pipelines
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to lead and align multi-disciplinary teams, including senior stakeholders
  • Effective communication and listening skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly, inspire teams, and facilitate productive discussions
  • Strong leadership qualities—able to support, coach, and advocate for teams while maintaining focus on overall business goals
  • High adaptability and resilience, with the ability to navigate change and shifting priorities effectively
  • Exceptional time management and organizational skills, capable of maintaining structured project plans and managing data within project management tools
  • Experience managing projects in technology, creative, or operational environments, such as software development, VFX, IT, media, or content production


$100,000 - $180,000 a year
This salary range is specific to applicants applying to our position in Los Angeles, California. To determine your base salary, we consider your qualifications, skills, and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary outside of this range and will also be dependent on your location.

About Us

Scanline VFX is an award-winning leader in the visual effects industry with 8 studios worldwide, including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich (will cease to operate by year's end), Seoul, Mumbai 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.


Eyeline Studios

Eyeline Studios, our virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility. Learn more.


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.


We will only consider applicants based in British Columbia, or those willing to relocate.

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