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Sr Pipeline Technical Director
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Job Summary:
What You’ll Do
● Develop pipeline and asset management tools to meet immediate, show-directed production demands, ensuring facility-wide consistency as directed by show and technical supervisors. Help maintain a wide array of existing workflows and scripts.
● Provide front-line production support across a wide range of disciplines, troubleshoot assets and shots, and help artists with general problem-solving. Monitor email requests, package up problems and redirect to the appropriate engineering team.
● Test and validate tools and techniques in production. Work closely with engineering teams in testing and releasing new and modified software systems.
● Act as an on-call resource for show production staff.
● Work effectively with artists, production supervisors, and technical staff across ILM studios in San Francisco, Vancouver, Singapore, and London.
● When not crewed to shows, serve on software teams working on projects that improve the efficiency of asset setup, caching, and shot-data handoff between artists across the entire pipeline.
● Drive pipeline priorities in conjunction with show supervisors.
● Work on tools of greatest complexity and sophistication, requiring the broadest knowledge of the larger pipeline and facility needs.
● Assist other Pipeline TDs in providing front-line assistance for the most complex of end-user problems; guide engineering teams in debugging technical issues and eliminating root causes of problems.
● Develop comprehensive knowledge of software and systems; drive the development and evolution of standards and conventions used in production.
● Update documentation for the pipeline and tools to reflect any changes that are made.
What We’re Looking For
● Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining tools for use in a computer graphics environment.
● At least 8 years production experience in visual effects for film, commercials or television.
● Required Skills/Competencies
● Proficiency in Linux
● Advanced Python scripting required
● Proficient in one or more of Maya, Nuke, Houdini, Mari, Katana, RenderMan or similar
● Ability to communicate cross-discipline and provide innovative solutions to pipeline issues
● Detail oriented and strong self-sufficient troubleshooter
● Comprehensive knowledge of the entire visual effects process, from shooting to modeling and texturing, animation, rendering and compositing
Preferred Skills/Competencies
● Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field
● Experience with production database systems
● Experience with C, C++
● Experience with Windows development and applications such as 3ds max a plus.
Associate VFX Supervisor
Job Summary:
Associate VFX Supervisor, ILM Mumbai
Responsibilities
Production:
Associate Management Accountant
Job Summary:
The youngest of all the ILM studios, the India studio leverages the expertise and technological know-how developed over 40 years at Industrial Light & Magic combined with the top artists and technicians in the region. Knowledge and culture flow freely between the company’s five studios and the global team shares tools and workflow allowing for seamless collaboration on all projects.
As we grow ILM India, we are seeking a Management Accountant to be a member of our team and be a key part of this exciting opportunity. The Associate Accountant will provide support to the India Finance
team, playing a key role in ensuring expenditure and fixed assets are accurately recorded.
What You’ll Do
- Accounts Payable – coding, reviewing, verification and processing invoices and payment runs in accordance with management approvals and controls, assist in closing AP module in Oracle after posting
- Fixed Assets – maintaining database including preparing of the monthly additions & disposals, running of depreciation, reconciling to the General Ledger, closing FA & CIP in Oracle and periodic review of physical inventories
- Oracle Financial System– Implementation and ongoing support
- Expense claims – coding, reconciling and processing expense claims
- Credit Card Statements – coding, reconciling and processing monthly credit card statements and ensuring payment reconciliations
- GST/TAX reporting prep—assist in preparation of reports for GST/Tax reporting
- Liaising with suppliers and internal parties for Finance related queries
- Review of monthly balance sheet schedules and reconciliations
- Assistance with gathering Audit documentation
- Time card/Labour Cost Accounting – weekly time card close management in H2G, reviewing time cards for completion, maintaining weekly head counts, completing upload process in Oracle and pushing of weekly labour and timecard data to TM1
- Other ad hoc tasks
What We’re Looking For
This position is with Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Industrial Light & Magic. Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
- At least 5-8 years of experience
- Good working knowledge of accounting ERP, analytical and reporting tools
- Identify opportunities to enhance business process
- Track own productivity
- Maintain good relations with counterparts in other regions
- It is critical that the incumbent cultivates a high quality relationship of collaboration with the members in the Finance Department and with other Departments
Required Skills / Competencies:
- Ability to work effectively with non-technical employees across the organization and at all levels.
- Organized and systematic; decisive, plans well and manages priorities Meticulous and careful with numbers
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Confident in ability to work effectively to deadlines
- Previous working experience in entertainment/media industry is a plus but not required
Talent Manager
Job Summary:
As we grow ILM India, we are seeking a Talent Manager (Artist Manager) to be one of the first members of our team and be a key part of this exciting opportunity.
The Talent Manager creates a positive and supportive environment for the artist and production teams by building meaningful relationships with the teams they manage, as well as the show leadership teams. They work closely with project leadership in order to schedule and manage crew with an overarching focus on the long-term growth of artists through performance feedback
and career development, so our artists continue in the long term to grow and develop.
What You’ll Do
● Create a collaborative and supportive environment for all artists to excel, with an open-door policy to encourage positive communication between you and the artists you manage
● Work closely with show leadership to ensure projects have the right teams assigned, considering both the project needs and the career development of the artists
● Assess any capacity and utilization challenges across your artist and production teams and proactively problem solve any issues, keeping all the relevant information up to date and accurate within our resource planning systems
● Evaluate and learn individual artist strengths; helping to develop cross utilization of teams to promote an effective workflow
● Work with supervisors, production, training and other talent managers to develop training plans for upcoming show needs and ongoing departmental talent development
● Create a positive and constructive feedback environment for your artists with the goal of helping artists grow and meet their long-term career goals, as well as continuing to improve their performance
● Manage your team’s yearly merit increases
● Working with the talent coordinators, managing time off requests and other ad-hoc administration duties
● Identify recruitment requirements for your teams, partnering with recruiters in finding and hiring the best talent, with a continued focus on creating a diverse team
● Manage locally, but think globally – working collaboratively with all ILM studios to maximize crew utilization
What We’re Looking For
- 8-10 years of experience
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- Genuine passion for management and ability to create an environment conducive for all team members to excel
- Ability to provide both positive and constructive feedback
- Scheduling and problem solving skills are proven, and VFX knowledge is sound
- Roll the sleeves up attitude, happy to take on a variety of responsibilities all contributing to the end goal of a positive team environment
- People feel comfortable talking to you and discussing their challenges and their successes
- Lead by example
- Instinct for creating teams, an eye for spotting talent and a passion for diversity and team culture.
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