Lead Production Tech & Pipeline Innovation Manager

Your New Role

The Manager, Production Technology Specialist will support our pipeline/production team to plan and implement current and future technologies. This role will help lead the pipeline team to innovate and deliver solutions.

• Collaborate with IT/Production to design, architect and maintain highly complex workflows critical to the production pipelines, including the structure of production software/licensing, and archival and asset sharing systems.
• Research new technologies and software systems used by Production/Post; work with IT to plan and manage migration to new systems.
• Create and maintain documentation and instruction manuals to be shared internally and with external clients.
• Facilitate software training across all departments.
• Create strategies to increase efficiencies across all departments.
• Partner with shows to review various production software, troubleshoot issues and ensure teams are trained and up to date on workflows.
• Design customized reporting tools to work between Shotgrid, Blender, Smartsheets and other existing software.
• Develop/design user interfaces for use by Production Management and Creative teams.
• Direct and manage initiatives that support WBA growth plans and capital improvement projects as they relate to preproduction, production, and editorial/post.
• Identify, resolve and debug technical issues.
• Perform new duties/jobs as they arise.

Education, Professional Training, Technical Training or Certification

• High School and College

Knowledge/Skills

• 3 – 5 years previous work experience in visual effects for film, commercials, or television.
• CG Television Animation production, equivalent production experience a plus.
• 3 – 5 years previous work experience developing tools for Shotgrid.
• Must understand current industry animation techniques, and technologies.
• Knowledge of Smartsheets and Tableau (or similar).
• Familiarity with naming conventions and file organization.
• Working knowledge of industry standard production tools:
  Premiere, Avid, Photoshop, After Effects, Storyboard Pro, Harmony.
• Experience with different editorial systems and strategies to improve and automate workflow between production, Premiere, AVID and Quantel.
• Management experience.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Good technical knowledge of MacOS, Adobe products, networking fundamentals.

• Be organized and detail oriented.
• Be excellent at problem solving and critical thinking.
• Have strong communication skills.
• Must have ability to lead with a positive attitude and encourage collaboration.
• Have a strong desire to help and lead by example.
• Must be organized and able to manage time and balance priorities amid the pressures of busy, deadline-driven production.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks.
• Demonstrates ability to be proactive and follows through on every task assigned.

The job is hybrid.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation for roles in locations where legally required: $95,550.00 – $ salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program-specific awards. Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits: health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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