Animation Production Manager

Cat Face is a You Tube entertainment company, home to a family of channels with over 25 million combined subscribers and an average of 300 million views per month. Our goal is to entertain our audience with fun, light-hearted narratives and engaging content for general audiences.

At Cat Face Animation, we’re expanding our animated content built around the beloved characters and stories from the Aphmau universe, including MyStreet and Aphmau Diaries. Check out the links below to see samples of our work:

MyStreet Teaser

MyStreet Music Video

Aphmau Diaries

Cat Face is seeking an experienced Animation Production Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of our Animation Department and oversee animated projects from pre-production through final delivery.

Reporting to the Creative Producer, this role manages the animation team, departmental workflows, and resources while ensuring animation deliverables meet creative, technical, and quality expectations. The Animation Production Manager will work closely with the Production Operations Lead, who oversees the overall production schedule, to align animation milestones, capacity, and production needs with the broader production plan.

We’re looking for a hands‑on leader with a strong understanding of 3D animation production, excellent people management skills, and a director’s eye for visual storytelling. The ideal candidate is a solutions-oriented creative problem solver who can anticipate challenges, bring thoughtful solutions to the table, and guide the team creatively while balancing production realities.

This is an on‑site position located in Austin, TX. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Lead and manage the Animation Department, providing day-to-day direction, mentorship, feedback, and accountability.
• Manage animation workflows from pre-production through post-production handoff, ensuring deliverables move efficiently through each stage of the pipeline.
• Work closely with the Production Operations Lead to establish animation milestones within the overall production schedule and communicate capacity, dependencies, risks, and resource needs.
• Translate production priorities into clear assignments and deadlines, balancing artist strengths, specialties, workloads, and available resources.
• Work with the Creative Producer and Production Operations Lead to assess staffing needs and team capacity across multiple productions, ensuring the animation team has the appropriate expertise and support to meet creative goals, timelines, and budget considerations.
• Guide the team with a strong visual storytelling perspective, providing actionable feedback on performance, staging, composition, camera, pacing, and continuity.
• Oversee previsualization, layout, and scene preparation, including rough storyboards, camera and character blocking, scene setup, and preliminary editorial needs.
• Maintain strong production and file-management practices, including naming conventions, version control, Monday board tracking, continuity, and clean departmental handoffs.
• Oversee final camera and QC passes to ensure animation is creatively and technically ready for post-production.
• Identify creative and production challenges early, develop solutions, and collaborate with the Creative Producer and Production Operations Lead to address risks and bottlenecks.
• Facilitate communication between animation and other creative, technical, editorial, and production teams, providing regular updates on animation progress and departmental needs.
• Develop and improve animation workflows, pipeline processes, best practices, and departmental standards.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, training, and, when applicable, coordination of…