Senior Animation Producer

OPM’s Client is a lead game developer with a number of AAA titles. They are looking for a Senior Animation Producer to work on their current projects.

Reporting to the Central Teams Lead Producer, you will be a senior member of an innovative team focused on driving world-class animation and building next-generation animation tools and technologies!

You will work closely with the Animation Direction and our various Production teams developing and improving on processes, managing requests, and budgets, reporting on status, providing input for the schedule, team growth, external partner opportunities, and facilitating communication and information sharing.

RESPONSIBILTIES

• Coordinate day-to-day work of the team; Track the status and generate reports.
• Facilitate intake of requests from multiple projects, weigh against available resources, and map on a cross project-schedule.
• Partner with Animation Direction and department Leads on strategy
• Evolve existing processes and explore the introduction of new ones.
• Schedule reviews, document feedback, and design JIRA workflows.
• Work closely with the Production team to ensure continuity of content, and appropriate resource distribution between teams.
• Mentor members of the feature Production team that work with Animation groups
• Chase impediments and flag risks.
• Facilitate inter-departmental communication with other teams such as art, VFX, lighting, audio, writing, and world design to mitigate sophisticated co-dependencies.

REQUIREMENTS

• You have extensive game development experience, with a minimum of 1 full cycle shipping a title.
• You possess an understanding of real-time animation pipelines.
• You have a high level of technical proficiency and are excited to engage with a proprietary toolset/engine.
• Comfortable in an ambiguous and diverse work environment, embracing changes and accepting revisions if needed to improve the game.
• You possess strong oral and written English communication skills.
• You have experience with tracking work and mitigating risk.
• You’re able to effectively connect with artistic and technical team members.
• You’re able to switch between day-to-day firefighting and high-level strategy.

BENEFITS