VP, Creative Technologist & VFX

Position Summary

Torchlight is Sony Pictures Entertainment’s advanced production, creative technology, and innovation organization, dedicated to transforming how stories are imagined, created, and delivered across Feature Film, Television, Animation, and Marketing.

Leveraging Sony’s proprietary technologies alongside industry-leading third-party platforms, Torchlight identifies, develops, and operationalizes next-generation creative capabilities that redefine the future of filmmaking. Acting as both an innovation incubator and strategic production partner, Torchlight accelerates the adoption of emerging technologies while enabling filmmakers to push the boundaries of cinematic storytelling.

Reporting directly to the Visualization Creative Director, Torchlight & SVP, of Visualization, the Vice President, Creative Technology & VFX serves as the organization’s senior creative technology executive and principal visual innovation leader.

This executive works directly alongside filmmakers, show runners, directors, producers, studio creative executives, animation leadership, the Sony Pictures VFX organization, global marketing creatives, engineering teams, and external production partners to transform creative ambition into production reality.

The Vice President leads the creative exploration, implementation, and adoption of emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence, visual effects, virtual production, procedural content creation, real-time rendering, digital humans, simulation, immersive media, and future creative platforms—to expand what is creatively possible while maintaining world-class artistic standards.

Unlike traditional technology executives, this leader remains deeply embedded within the creative process, serving as both a trusted creative partner and hands‑on change agent responsible for shaping the future visual language of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

• Partner directly with the Executive Creative Director to define Torchlight’s long-term creative technology vision.
• Serve as Sony a senior executive advisor on emerging creative technologies and visual innovation.
• Inspire new methods of storytelling through the convergence of filmmaking, machine learning, visual effects, and advanced production technologies.
• Establish creative technology strategies that balance artistic excellence, production feasibility, and long-term studio innovation & efficiencies.

Serve as Torchlight’s primary creative technology partner to:

• Feature Film Directors
• Television Show runners
• Producers
• Studio Creative Development Executives
• Franchise Leadership
• Global Marketing Creative Organizations
• Sony Pictures VFX
• Animation Leadership
• Studio Production Executives

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborating from concept development through final delivery.
• Developing innovative visual approaches that enhance storytelling.
• Advising productions on technology adoption, creative methodology, and production strategy.
• Building trust with filmmakers while preserving creative intent.
• Developing new and innovative ways to create efficiencies in the filmmaking process

• Lead Torchlight's exploration of next-generation image creation technologies.
• Drive innovation across visual effects, computer graphics, virtual production, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, procedural content generation, and machine learning visual development.
• Champion advances in pixel creation that improve both artistic quality and production efficiency.
• Prototype emerging workflows that redefine how visual content is conceived, developed, and delivered.

• Identify opportunities where new technologies enhance creative workflows while…