Post Production Director

Description

Position Summary

We are seeking a creative, dynamic and experienced post production director with a passion and knowledge of sports and video games. Our ideal candidate will be exceptionally imaginative, collaborative and focused on quality. The post production director will meet and partner with clients to build relationships and ascertain needs for video/post production services and solutions for compelling and engaging videos. Clients include marketing, branding, and game development teams within the Tiburon studio and throughout EA.

The Post Production Director must be highly organized and have an ability to anticipate opportunities and problems, will lead a staff of 7, oversee and advise on the creation of high quality video pieces to reinforce the look of EA Sports in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. Responsibilities also include overseeing and managing the work-flow and day to day operations for every project of the video capture, video editing and compositing teams with daily delivery requirements and timelines.

Key Responsibilities:
* Provide leadership and industry expertise in the creative process between marketing and post production group by contributing to creative options and solutions
Seen as an open and collaborative leader in terms of new ideas and approaches within post production team, by clients within the Tiburon studio and within EA
* Consistently work with product managers, art directors/key creative partners to assure creative needs and process is well defined and followed while maintaining a high level of creativity and production value within the boundaries of quality, time and budget
* Offer original ideas and creative input to all stages of post production based on client and business needs
* Establish and partner on creative reviews, investigate discrepancies and rectify them, by doing what is necessary to re-balance the creative
* Drives the quality goal to completion
* Reinforce the EA Sports brand by monitoring the efforts of the video department
* Drive customer satisfaction by emphasizing quality results always
* Builds cohesive, effective teams – inspires, motivates, energizes
* Owns the organizational structure and develops staff at all levels with the department to meet business needs
* Establish workload capacity planning strategies for flexible coverage and to accommodate peak volumes
* Recognized within outside post production community with abilities to influence
* Establish and maintain a database of freelance creative talent (editors, graphics artists, assistant editors) and facilities in all areas and specialties of video and post production and related services
Contract and schedule freelance or outsourced labor
* Supervise post-production scheduling (internal team and external resource)
* Establish rates and accounts with vendors while leveraging volume of post-production work to negotiate cost effective rates in labor, facilities, and equipment
* Prepare post-production budgets and forecasts, inform budget partners on post-production requirements
* Manage post-production staff including freelance crews, editors, and technicians
* Optimize guidelines and best practices for post production, while advising and developing staff
* Investigate technology and software developments in order to enhance our products
* Establish maintenance program and schedule all preventive and repair services, secures equipment rentals

Functional & Personal Competencies:
* Ability to work with various communication styles and creative viewpoints
* Approachable
* Willing to take initiative and ownership of projects
* Is a team player, adept at building relationships across organizations
* Demonstrated integrity, maturity and a constructive approach to challenges
* Desire to work hard in a fast-paced, team environment
* Possesses passion, energy, and enthusiasm to drive results