Supervising Technical Director

Description

Supervising Technical Director

About Pixar Canada

Pixar Canada is looking for a Supervising Technical Director for its Vancouver studio. Pixar Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios, the world leader in animated films. The Vancouver studio produces short-form animation focusing on legacy Pixar characters from films such as Toy Story and Cars. 

Summary

The Supervising Technical Director (Supe Tech) defines and guides the technical strategy for each film, in collaboration with the Director/Line Producer/Creative Director and technical department leads. The Supe Tech reports to the Line Producer.  This is a senior leadership position with the ideal candidate having strong technical sensibilities, management expertise and experience of working closely with a film’s director.

Responsibilities: ?

• Supervises the Leads of the Sets & Characters, Visual Effects (FX), Lighting, and Rendering departments.
• Makes decisions about the organization and set up of the master asset tree and the technical production pipeline for each film, and supervises implementation of those decisions.
• Acts as the Director's (Line Producer's, Creative Director's) advisor on technical matters and ways of achieving creative goals within the constraints of technical feasibility and schedule/resource requirements.
• Work with the Leads and production management staff to review and refine bids and schedules.
• Identifies and prioritizes important technical problems and challenges for each film.
• Works with Leads to make plans for solving technical problems and overcoming challenges.  Assigns responsibility to teams and particular technical artists for parts of the solution.
• Acts as a point of escalation for difficult technical issues and cross-departmental workflow and collaboration issues.
• Working with Production Engineering and Systems, keeps up to date on current technology trends, tools, and techniques that might be advantageous for upcoming projects.
• Watches over the technical culture, skills and satisfaction of the crew with respect to training, technical challenge, efficiency and ease of working.