What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Director position at Paramount Pictures?
Paramount Animation is the animated film division of Paramount Pictures. Building on Paramount's 100-year history of iconic filmmaking, Paramount Animation brings visionary artists and storytellers together to form a world-class animation studio.
Position Summary
We are actively seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Technical Director (TD) to provide daily support to artists, show management, and department heads, and to further develop a range of production-based workflows for our production teams.
The TD is responsible for developing, designing, and implementing pipeline tools and workflows used throughout the creative process by artists and production management. This person will provide front-line pipeline support and must be able to quickly and effectively troubleshoot general CG animation pipeline issues while operating in a fast-paced production environment. This person will be supporting artists and production crew in the Editorial, Story, Art / Design, and 3D Story / Previs / Layout departments within and across multiple productions.
The TD will serve as a curator of production needs and requests. The TD in this role will work closely with the other TDs and production to provide production-based solutions for each of the departments listed above based on their list of priorities.
A successful candidate is self-motivated, proactive, quick-thinking, flexible, thorough, and able to juggle multiple and diverse responsibilities with a strong emphasis on organization and attention to detail. This is a position that requires someone who is excellent at communicating technical concepts to non-technical users.
Responsibilities
- Communicate with artists to identify production-facing problems.
- Provide immediate support to artists in troubleshooting assets and / or shots and publishing data to editorial.
- Gather requirements and input from artists and technology stakeholders to engineer robust and thoughtful software solutions.
- Provide ShotGrid support and workflow enhancements for production teams.
- Provide insight and recommendations to the TDs and Production about ShotGrid best practices and optimized workflows.
- Create integrations for third-party and proprietary tools and applications.
- Provide front-line support for pipeline-related issues across all pre-production departments.
- Write and maintain tool and workflow documentation and training.
- Work closely with Vendors, who are key contributors in making our high-quality films.
- Assist other TDs, artists, VFX & CG Supervisors, and Pipeline developers to extend and enhance the production pipeline.
- Construct validation tests to ensure software quality.
- Apply analytics to monitor the operations of the studio and streamline operations.
- Assist in training and mentoring of interns and contractors.
Basic Qualifications
Additional Qualifications
Hiring Salary Range :
Minimum : $2300 / 45hr week ($48.43 / hour)
Maximum : $3100 / 45hr week ($65.27 / hour)
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Salary : $48 - $65
