Head of Effects Fx

5 months ago

Montréal, Canada Moving Picture Company Full time

Company Description

Moving Picture Company (MPC) is a global VFX studio with decades of storytelling experience across the feature film and episodic industries, with award-winning highlights including The Lion King, 1917, The Mandalorian, and the Jungle Book.

MPC’s global network of artists is constantly innovating to bring unimaginable ideas to life through cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity. Part of the Technicolor Creative Studios network, MPC continues to lead the visual arts industry, building authentic and long-lasting connections with audiences across screens worldwide.

**Job Description**:
**Position Summary**:
As HOD is responsible for ensuring the smooth and effective running of their department from a creative, technical and workflow perspective. They are responsible and held accountable in 5 key areas:
**Department planning and maintenance**:

- Create good communication channels with other departments, show production and senior management to ensure complex information is disseminated appropriately
- Manage the recruitment and casting of Leads in accordance with the global needs of the business
- Assign appropriate artists to the various projects, balancing the financial, technical and creative considerations of the task
- Report crew assessment to DM (Department Manager)

**Show planning and maintenance**:

- Work with the lead artists, supervisors and show production to bid or plan shots, and ensure the project methodologies, quality and schedule expectations are consistent and achievable
- Ensure that work is delivered to MPC’s global standards, on time and on budget
- Assist other artists, departments and supervisors' issues as they arise during production, delegating work where necessary
- Work with CG supervisors to plan for future challenges and problem solve current issues
- Work with Department Developers and R&D to address software issues on a show
- Communicate to the up and downstream departments to ease ingest and handoff challenges
- Work with VFX and DFX supervisors to enable the best creative output from the team

**Mentoring and supporting**:

- Nurture creative vision and technical ability, while ensuring a balanced, personal and professional development
- Have a compelling strategy and vision for the future of the department
- Regular 1:1s with key members of the team. (High potentials, Leads, Core)
- Encouraging and supporting leads to delegate and support their teams
- Pairing up team members to enable learning
- Supporting or delegating support to employees under performance management

**Training and documentation**:

- The HOD is responsible for their team to be trained to a level in which they can perform their duties.
- Manage the integration of new artists into the existing team and ensure they receive proper training either by providing the training or delegating to leads and other team members
- Ensure training documentation is up to date and coordinate with team members to create the training material when necessary

*** **Standardized workflows**:

- Implement the products and services as needed to ensure department efficiency
- Keep up to date with industry developments and tools
- Ensure the department remains relevant in an ever-changing global industry
- Propose and oversee the development of new tools, workflows or techniques as required for successful and efficient delivery of shows
- Monitor workflow and techniques used in the team
- Collaborate with other Heads of Departments to design workflows between their teams
- Be the visionaries for their department
- Report on workflows to the Head of Creative Officers

**Qualifications**:
**Skills and Experience**

**Technical Knowledge/Skills**:

- Varies by discipline

**Experience**:

- 6-7 years of proven leadership and management experience in a leading VFX company or associated industry

**Attributes**:

- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
- Exercise patience, problem-solving and mediation skills
- Ability to cope with stressful situations and conflict with composure
- Ability to work in an inclusive and diverse organization
- Strong creative ability and flair
- Strong sense of aesthetic

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