Crowd TD at Stellar Creative Lab

Stellar Creative Lab is seeking a Crowd Technical Director in Vancouver, BC (Hybrid) for a premium Marvel Animation streaming series. You will build and maintain crowd pipelines and tools using Python, Maya, Houdini, and Atoms Crowd, while troubleshooting shot issues and supporting the team. This full-time role offers a competitive salary of CAD $93,000–$103,000 and comprehensive benefits.

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Position Title Crowd Technical Director (Crowd TD)

Company Name Stellar Creative Lab

Location Vancouver, BC, Canada (Flexible Hybrid Work Environment)

Employment Type Full-Time, Permanent

Department Crowd Pipelines & Technical Direction

Project Focus Premium Streaming Series for Marvel Animation

Salary Range CAD $93,000 – $103,000 per annum (commensurate with experience)

Core Software Autodesk Maya, Houdini, Atoms Crowd

Eligibility Legally eligible to work in BC, Canada (Priority given to BC Residents, Canadian Citizens, and Permanent Residents)

• Department: Crowd Systems / Technical Direction
• Experience Level: Experienced (3+ Years of Production Experience)

At Stellar, we aim to build a studio where people actually want to work. We face production’s inevitable ups and downs as a supportive, truly connected team, prioritizing open communication over anyone working in isolation. We value honesty, creativity, and looking out for one another.

We believe that diversity and inclusion are the absolute keys to boundless creativity and seamless collaboration. We are deeply committed to building a supportive, open, and diverse community where creative minds from all backgrounds can thrive, innovate, and grow. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our studio accessibility, and we always welcome feedback or suggestions from our creative community.

We are currently staffing up for a highly anticipated, epic-scale streaming series with Marvel Studios
. To pull off the massive visual scale, complex battle sequences, and bustling environments required for the show, we need a brilliant, systems-minded Crowd Technical Director (Crowd TD).

This is an intensely technical role. You are not here to keyframe-animate individual characters; you are here to build the underlying tools, robust workflows, and scalable pipeline architecture that make our crowd artists look like absolute rockstars.

If you love untangling complex technical problems, writing elegant Python code, and acting as the supportive technical bridge between the Asset, FX, and Animation departments, we want you on our team. We need a proactive problem-solver who can spot pipeline bottlenecks from a mile away and build bulletproof solutions so the artists never have to experience operational stress.

As a Crowd TD at Stellar, your day-to-day contributions will span pipeline engineering, tool development, artist support, and cross-departmental coordination. Success in this role is defined by three core pillars:

• Pipeline Architecture: Design, build, and maintain a highly efficient, scalable crowd pipeline utilizing Autodesk Maya, Houdini, and Atoms Crowd.
• Prototyping & Testing: Proactively prototype and test shot pipelines, identifying technical gaps, data bottlenecks, or critical issues long before they ever reach the artists’ desks.
• Tool Creation: Write clean, modular, and efficient code to develop custom tools and technical solutions that directly expand the creative capabilities and throughput of the crowd team.

• The Technical Safety Net: Act as the ultimate technical safety net for the artist floor. You troubleshoot, debug, and resolve day-to-day production shot issues with patience, empathy, and a positive, constructive attitude.
• Lifecycle Ownership: Take total ownership of the complete crowd technical lifecycle, ensuring that data integrates smoothly and predictably into specific downstream workflows like FX and Lighting/Compositing (LRC).
• Calm Leadership: Maintain a calm, motivating, and reassuring presence during high-stress delivery windows, keeping the focus entirely on creative and technical solutions rather than assigning blame.
• Cross-Departmental Liaison: Serve…