ILM’s Technology teams develop the ground-breaking technology that our artists use to create dazzling visuals. ILM’s innovations have won 29 Scientifi.....
ILM’s Technology teams develop the ground-breaking technology that our artists use to create dazzling visuals. ILM’s innovations have won 29 Scientific and Technical Academy Awards ®. Today, we are 80+ visually-minded software engineers, working side-by-side with over a thousand digital artists in a fast-paced, intensely collaborative, creatively-driven film production environment, across studios in San Francisco,Sydney, Vancouver, and Mumbai.
With over 40 years of experience, ILM is the best in the business, but we’re never content with the status quo. With a full slate of upcoming movies, we have the ambition to improve everything we do:
- Develop ever more powerful tools and production techniques that push the bounds of visual complexity and cinematic fidelity, and continue to create images no one has seen before.
- Improve our most powerful artist tools so they’re easier to learn and easier to use.
- Modernize our core infrastructure, and increase the throughput of our global compute and storage processes.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage the development roadmaps and projects for the systems engineering and systems administration teams
- Manage the process of gathering and prioritizing project requirements in collaboration with leadership and team members
- Partner with Technology and Production leadership to set project direction and translate production strategy into a development plan
- Define, develop, manage and document Program schedule/milestones, proactively drive project-related issues to appropriate resolution, and plan for contingencies due to production-related risks
- Provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance goals against technical constraints to negotiate release schedules
- Develop strong cross-functional relationships which enable the group to look forward and plan interdepartmental tasks without friction
- Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the development cycle
- Coordinate project progress through effective meetings, use of Jira and coordination with technology leadership
- Manage budgets for larger cross discipline programs and process for our Sydney studio
Education / Experience:
- You will have 8-10 years previous project management or production management experience in VFX production, gaming or software development
- You have practiced knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, ideally including experience managing Agile software development
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills and can get ideas acrossin a clear and concise manner
Personal Skills:
- Intuition: an intuitive understanding of the demands of a fast-paced, creatively-driven visual effects production environment.
- Collaboration: a readiness to trust others, be trustworthy, and play nice.
- Communication: an ability to express yourself concisely, a willingness to speak up, and a conviction to keep everyone informed of progress and issues.
- Empathy: an ability to listen intently and understand engineer and artist needs.
- Creativity: an insightful and analytical thinker, and a creative problem solver.
Salary: $130,000 - $140,000
