Line Producer

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ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned animation entertainment company located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC Canada with design, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, technical finaling, lighting, visual effects, and compositing artists alongside creative and management teams.

Known for our quality, efficiency, and timely deliveries, ICON has partnered alongside distributors, broadcasters, and streaming platforms around the world to help create, realize and produce noteworthy content.

ICON operates from a holistic philosophy that leverages individual skill sets to maximize production efficiency on the floor while maintaining an optimal balance of creativity and quality on-screen.

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On-site Position

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**Why work at ICON?**

At ICON we constantly invest in raising the bar of our productions and fostering our people. If you are passionate about animation and enjoy sharing success with others, we'd like to hear from you
- Join the fastest growing CG Animation studio in Vancouver
- Work on top feature and episodic CG franchises for leading streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon, Peacock, Paramount+ etc.)
- Work with a diverse group of artists from all over the world who have come to BC to join our expanding studio
- Use all of the latest tools and softwares
- We uphold a premium standard of quality across all of our productions by putting all of our resources up on screen
- We hire for the long term and give artists the opportunity to grow, get promoted and take on as much responsibility as they can manage
- We offer flexibility and autonomy
- We facilitate requests in a timely manner
- We offer direct deposit
- We offer a generous benefits package
- And more...

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**LINE PRODUCER**

It is the responsibility of the **Line Producer** to work directly with the producer to ensure the success of the ICON IP and development department. The line producer is expected to oversee all production managers and coordinators and have a clear understanding of all projects and departmental statuses while maintaining professional and business acumen. They are also expected to excel in multitasking between 3-10 projects at a time with the support of the producer and production team.

**Expectations**
- **Communication**: get on well with a wide range of people, be clear about job descriptions and expectations, ensure everyone understands what needs to happen, when and why, and create a strong team. Respond to any needs and requests in a timely manner in priority order.
- **Pipeline Knowledge**: have a great understanding of the animation pipeline and how each department affects the others.
- **Organization**: plan departmental production schedules and deliverables.
- **Innovation**: think clearly when the unexpected happens, and come up with good ideas even when under pressure.
- **Professionalism**: ensure that, while maintaining a polite and friendly attitude, they retain a high level of professionalism at all times.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Create, maintain and revise as necessary resources and time for the production, coordinating multiple plans, departments, teams and resources where necessary and working in accordance with the overall studio and where appropriate, client schedule.
- Mentor production managers, coordinators and assistants, while also providing guidance and support to department leads and supervisors. Oversee the departmental coordinators, ensuring they are on schedule. Build quota trackers when needed to hand off to departmental coordinators and uphold the stands of expectation for all production managers, production coordinators and production assistants.
- Support the IP team in after-hours meetings and ensure all notes are taken in a confidential manner and only distributed to the approved people. Work closely with the director, CG supervisor and Art Director to ensure all IP, development and test project needs are being met.
- Run point and be the lead producer on any tests and projects that the producer requires. Oversee the entirety of the test production from start to finish and work with the heads of decrements to manage the schedule and resources. Communicate with other production producers any resource/crew information that might pertain to or impact their production. Report to the producer and president all updates. Run client calls when needed.
- Foster and maintain professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders: clients, crew, partners, post houses, recording studios, and corporate departments.
- Manage and work with the director, producer and president to oversee the script process, including clearances (where needed), script meetings, delivery, and related budget.
- Understand and be able to support the voice record process when applicable. Including casting. Maintain professional relationships with the studio casting director and our recording houses.
- Maintain and ma