Pipeline Supervisor

General Summary

The Production Technology Department at LAIKA builds tools and systems that are used daily across all the departments that work on our groundbreaking stop motion animated films.  The diversity of the crafts and disciplines involved, and the enormous volume of data, images and objects that are created in the making of these films, demand that our software solutions be sophisticated and robust.  We are seeking a Pipeline Supervisor with experience on animated feature films to join our team and oversee the development and integration of these tools into an overall production pipeline.

The Pipeline Supervisor works with our team of TD’s and software developers to design solutions for a wide variety of production departments from story development through VFX.   Delivering pragmatic, efficient systems while making sure the underlying logic and data structures are robust, nimble and sustainable. 

Critical to success in this role is an aptitude for working with technical and non-technical end users to understand their workflows and pain points and having the technical capacity to contribute directly to the development and support of the production technology toolset.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaborate with production department leads and supervisors to design technical solutions to complex production problems.
• Breakdown pipeline development projects into development tasks and assign them to the team of TD’s and Developers.
• Supervise the pipeline development, providing leadership on architecture and methods.
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of production technology toolsets.
• Design and build applications and pipeline tools where appropriate.
• Initiate research and development, implement 3rd party solutions when available, and design and build prototypes for larger systems and applications.
• Work with IT to plan the infrastructure, operating systems, release mechanisms and revisions controls to support production technology toolsets.