Full Time Contract
Description:
The line producer's primary responsibility is to establish and manage the production budget and schedule in addition to bringing people together to avoid problems, solve them when they are unavoidable, and enable innovations. Your duties include forward planning, cost and performance reporting, managing outside vendors, scheduling and deploying resources, and balancing the relationships between financial resources and creative demands to achieve the best possible outcome.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with studio management and/or clients to build production plans that are realistic within available resources;
- Manage the execution of planning, meeting daily with production teams;
- Facilitate the interface between clients and production staff;
- Balance expectations of internal and external players regarding creative project deliverables within available resources;
- Devise production methodologies and monitor their performance and refinement to ensure deliveries on schedule and within budget;
- Collaborate with hiring teams to screen talent according to studio needs;
- Provide regular reports on project costs and status. Identify potential risks and develop solutions;
- Take on the negotiation and management of contracts with artists and other outside vendors;
Qualifications:
- Fluency in English;
- Skills in developing and maintaining budgets and schedules;
- Ability to anticipate and solve problems in order to avoid bottlenecks that will impact production;
- Strong leadership skills;
- Great communication and collaboration skills with colleagues to solve problems;
- Ability to identify and organize people to assist in meeting goals;
- Promote and apply best practices regarding team leadership, project development, production planning, reporting, risk management and resource allocation;
- Passion for animation :)
Other information:
Previous experience in this role within the animation market will be considered a plus.