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Production Manager

Company3 Method Studios

California, United States (On-site)

Production Manager

3 Weeks ago • All levels • Operations

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prototyping

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Job Description

The Production Manager at Company 3 is responsible for overseeing the color assistant team, ensuring smooth department operations. Key duties include providing daily support to ongoing projects, mitigating bottlenecks, leading client calls to determine workflows, collaborating with other departments, managing color assistant training and scheduling, and participating in hiring. Project support involves setting up project folders, educating producers on file review, prepping projects for color, color tracing, and ensuring project settings meet department standards. The role also entails maintaining SAN space, managing archives, reporting tech issues to engineering, and communicating ETAs. Experience in a post-production environment, knowledge of digital capture cameras and files, and offline editing experience are essential.

Must have:

Manage color assistant team
Oversee daily department operations
Lead client calls & determine workflows
Provide technical guidance & support
Manage training & scheduling
Maintain SAN space & project archives

Good to have:

Avid/FCP experience
Blackmagic Resolve experience
HDR and Dolby Vision workflow knowledge

Perks:

Comprehensive health, retirement, and insurance benefits (full-time)
Paid time off

Company: Company 3
Position: Production Manager
Location: Santa Monica, CA (Onsite)
*Pay Range: $80,000 - $90,000 USD annually

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Production Manager is responsible for managing the color assistant team to ensure the department runs smoothly.

MAIN DUTIES:
Department Support: The Production Manager will have a full understanding of all ongoing projects daily. They will provide support to assists as needed to mitigate potential bottlenecks. They will lead client calls along with production to determine workflows, work with Head of Production to create and/ or update workflows within the department and create and share documentation department wide. They will also:

Provide technical guidance and support to Production, Artists + Color Assists when issues arise.
Collaborate with Production Managers from other departments to discuss challenges and strategize improvements.
Manage the training of all color assistants on current workflows.
Manage the weekend support schedule for the color assistants.
In partnership with the Head of Production, participate in interviewing and hiring color assistants

Project Support: The Production Manager will provide assist support as needed including but not limited to the following:

Set up project folder structure on the SAN.
Educate Producers/APs/Coords in learning how to review client provided prep files/elements to ensure sessions run smoothly.
Prep and build project for color (conformed sequence, camera selects etc) as needed.
Color-trace project if required
Ensure all project settings are set to the defined department standard, including artist specific requests

Engineering: The Production Manager will maintain SAN space and project archives to ensure that volumes are properly managed and flag all system and tech issues encountered to engineering, communicate ETAs with producers/colorists and submit support tickets.

WHAT YOU BRING:
The ideal candidate will have prior working experience in a post-production environment. They will have knowledge of digital capture cameras and files and have a background and/or knowledge of offline editing. Additional desired skills include:

Avid and/or FCP experience & Adobe Premiere
Blackmagic Resolve and/or other color correction software experience a plus
File based workflow experience
Knowledge of HDR and Dolby Vision workflows
Knowledge of mobile storage devices and formats

About the Company:
Company 3 / Method Studios provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more. 

Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:
Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.
It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

*The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs.
The benefits for eligible part-time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local benefits plan offerings will apply.
Both external and internal candidates can apply for this role through this careers’ website.
The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state and local pay transparency laws.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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$80.0K - $90.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$85.0K/yr avg.

Santa Monica, California, United States

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About The Company

Company3 Method Studios

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Company 3 is a comprehensive postproduction facility for features, episodic, commercials, and music videos. Known for its creative color artistry, pioneering technology, and global reach, Company 3 is trusted to deliver a quality product every time. It is home to one of the largest and most talented pools of colorists and visual effects artists working in post-production today with a client list that includes many of the most respected and talented film and entertainment professionals in the industry.

Company 3 offers solutions-based services ranging from color correction, Digital Intermediate (DI), and file-based workflows to visual effects and online services. Through its virtual outposts, Company 3 Colorists are available to clients around the world.