Producer/Production Support

About the Company Since 1915, Deluxe has served as the trusted partner to the global entertainment industry: from the major Hollywood studios to new global content platforms, as well as leading local content producers, broadcasters and distributors around the world. Our comprehensive offering of creative post-production and digital delivery solutions enables our clients to enhance and maximize the value of their content globally. We provide an end-to-end suite of services unrivalled in breadth, scale and global scope: high-end audio and visual post production for television and film; content management; content marketing; content localization; and IP-based global distribution. Deluxe is a c. $1billion Los Angeles-based company with operations in over 25 countries around the world. Whilst the International business of Deluxe comprises less than half of the revenue of the business today, we expect this share to increase substantially as we lead the international growth agenda for the business. Deluxe is a best-in-class employer, with over 8,000 of the most respected technologists and artists in the industry. We foster a culture of ingenuity, passion and collaboration to support our clients and our people, in all their endeavors.

The Role:

1. The successful candidate will be expected to produce localization and versioning projects in both short-form and long-form working along with Editors, Compositors, C4D artists and IO-QC technicians as per the brief provided by Clients/Account Managers/On-Site Project Managers.
2. A perfect mix of project management skills, pleasant & precise communication style, and technical knowledge on the post and VFX industry is required to fulfill the same.
3. Should be available to work in shifts aligned to multiple time zones either continuously or on rotational basis depending on the business requirement. The candidate might be aligned to one shift continuously throughout the year based on the client zone and business requirement.

Job Description:

1. Interacting with the Account Managers/Clients to get the exact scope of the project requirements and the detailed list of deliverables.
2. Estimating the time and budget of the project using various information derived from client brief, source assets, rate cards, brand guidelines and delivery specifications and clearly communicate to get approvals for the time and budgets.
3. Producing the localization and versioning projects to a high creative standard within the agreed time and budget.
4. Executing the project by defining sub tasks, schedule a calendar, booking the resources, following-up and reviewing the output to provide feedback of the same.
5. Overseeing the project which goes through multiple phases starting from Input QC, going through Localization, Versioning, Output QC, Encodes and finally to Delivery.
6. Keeping the client or onsite team regularly updated on the progress and challenges of the running projects.
7. Conducting kick-off meetings with the artists and tech leads to align on the requirements of software, fonts, artist resources and the time schedules.
8. Arranging briefings with both internal and external stake holders as and when required to ensure seamless information transfer required to clarify if challenges arise in the areas of quotes, schedules, feedbacks, reviews, progress, and delivery.
9. Tracking budgets and cost of the projects, ensuring to stay within limits and building reports to submit when needed.
10. Learning from challenges faced and suggesting ways to improve on the overall workflow pipeline.
11. Briefing the team members, freelancers and new joiners as required.
12. Managing the team’s time schedules, leaves, appraisals, and overall progress.

Requirements:

1. 5 to 7 years’ experience in a producer responsibility for post-production or VFX studio dealing with short form projects especially.
2. All skills that are synchronous with project management.
3. A good understanding of industry workflows, software and skills to identify who does what in the production chain.
4. Well organized, proactive, cool headed with clear communication.
5. Professional English language, excellent interpersonal skills, and a Can-Do attitude.
6. Strong eye for detail is important for producing multiple outputs with minor but critical changes unique to every single version.