Project Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
- Lead cross-functional projects
- Manage stakeholder communication
- Optimize resource allocation
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration
- 5+ years project management experience
- Agile, Waterfall methodologies
- PMP, Scrum Master certifications
- Experience in VFX, animation, or software development
11 skills required
Job Details
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 cross-team collaboration, ensuring smooth coordination between and updates between various teams to remove roadblocks
- 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 metrics 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 5 years of experience in a project management role
- Experience managing projects across different lifecycles, including software development, creative production (e.g., VFX, animation, design), operational process improvements, infrastructure deployments, and product launches
- 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
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About The Company
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.
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