UX Specialist

Company Description

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high‑end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.

Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series

Stranger Things season 4,Avatar:
The Last Airbenderand The Lord of The Rings:
The Rings of Power,the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 800 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.

Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for You Tube, NBC and Apple. Current projects include

Dune:
Prophecy, Silo Season 2andSonic
3. Recently released projects include

The Rings of Power S eason 2, Venom:
The Last Dance,Taika Waitit'sTime Bandits,and House of the Dragon Season 2.

Work arrangements:

As an artist-founded and artist‑led company, creativity is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to give our talent the freedom, resources, and environment they need to produce high‑quality work and thrive in a stimulating, collaborative, and supportive setting.

Given their key role in team leadership, decision‑making, communication, and operational and production support, managers, supervisors, production team members, and support functions, including Finance, HR, and IT, are expected to work from the studio at least four days per week.

This increased presence helps strengthen collaboration, maintain closer proximity with teams, support operational needs more effectively, and sustain a strong, vibrant, and aligned studio culture.

Rodeo FX is seeking a UX Specialist to elevate and transform the way our artists interact with our technology, tools, and production pipeline.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between technology and creative workflow, ensuring that our visual effects artists are equipped with intuitive, efficient, and reliable tools, pipeline, and infrastructure. You will work closely with artists, Supervisors, Technical Directors, Pipeline and IT teams to understand how work gets done, identify friction points, and translate those insights into meaningful improvements.

The ideal candidate combines a strong understanding of UX and user research with technical knowledge of VFX production environments and the ability to collaborate effectively with both creative and technical teams.

• Conduct workflow studies, interviews, observational research, and usability testing to understand how artists interact with tools, pipeline, and infrastructure.
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs and challenges of VFX artists, Supervisors, Technical Directors, and other production users.
• Identify workflow friction, inefficiencies, and usability challenges through qualitative and quantitative research.
• Synthesize user feedback and research findings into actionable opportunities for improvement.
• Advocate for the artist experience throughout the development and evolution of internal tools and workflows.

• Design intuitive interfaces, interactions, and streamlined workflows tailored to the needs of artists and technical users.
• Translate complex technical processes into clear, efficient, and user‑friendly experiences.
• Partner with Pipeline to improve the usability, accessibility, and efficiency of internal tools and applications.
• Lead or support prototyping, usability testing, and iterative validation of new and existing tools.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and eliminate unnecessary steps.