With over 20 years of in-house Talent Acquisition experience, our team partners with VFX, Animation, Virtual Production and Games Studios to offer a flexible range of Talent Acquisition solutions to suit studios from start-ups through to global industry leaders.
DAX Partners with VFX vendors across Feature Film, Episodic TV, Short Form and Client / Production side projects.
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The VFX Producer partners with the VFX Supervisor and Creative Director to lead the creative and technical teams in fulfilling the client’s vision - delivering the highest quality of work on time and on budget.
Key responsibilities include Budgets, Scheduling and Production Team leadership.
Ability to collaborate with clients and Studio Leadership and manage client relationships is essential.
Location: Remote / Hybrid / Onsite
Key Activities
- Meet with clients to review scripts, breakdowns and storyboards for a specific project.
- Partner with key creatives to develop the approach for creating the effects work and provide clients with estimates of budget & schedule requirements needed to complete the work.
- Prepare bids, key dates, schedule, and assumptions for the work of a specific project.
- During production, serve as principal client contact for non-creative issues, tracking and reporting progress of work, budgeting and negotiating cost of work, and delivering cost/schedule changes to ensure the client is updated as needed.
- Create, organise and maintain overall project schedule.
- Evaluate resources and book crew with the Head of Production and Creative Director.
- Manage crew performance on the project alongside Creative Director. Supervise assigned production staff.
- Estimate project budgets and initiate cost controls for each production.
- Evaluate GP and work with the Head of Production to provide management with early, consistent, and accurate finance reporting.
- Work closely with VFX Supervisor, Executive Producer and Creative Director to accurately and efficiently bid new enquiries
- Manage on-set graphics work logistics, as required.
- The role may require overtime and weekend work depending on show schedules.
- Travel for client meetings and/or shoots, as required.
- Meet with clients to review scripts, breakdowns and storyboards for a specific project.
- Partner with key creatives to develop the approach for creating the effects work and provide clients with estimates of budget & schedule requirements needed to complete the work.
- Prepare bids, key dates, schedule, and assumptions for the work of a specific project.
Requirements
- Pragmatic approach to Bidding, Budgeting and Planning.
- Experience working with Shotgrid - planning and tracking.
- Understanding of VFX departments, dependencies and pipeline workflows.
- Excellent communication skills ensuring accurate, concise and efficient flow of information.
- Proven experience of planning and delivering large scale VFX projects with a variety of Artists, Producers and Clients.
- A collaborative approach, enabling creative problem solving across Creative, Technical and Production teams.
- Highly organised, with strong time management skills.
- Understanding of common digital image file formats, VFX Software and Rendering processes.
- Good knowledge of MS Office packages (Excel, Word and Project) or GSuite .
- Passion and curiosity for design, digital imagery, cinema, and visual effects.
Benefits
UK / EU / Global Opportunities
Opportunity for Remote / Hybrid / Onsite
