Development Manager - Production Coordinator

Job Description

EA Create Capture creates quality in all aspects of our work. We are driven and focused on creating high-end performance capture content and production across multiple genres and art styles. We balance high volumes of assets to support our game development partners around the world.

Responsibilities
• Ensure your team understands the development partner motion capture goals
• Advocate for the Capture team's needs to meet qualitative and timeline requirements
• Maintain an inclusive environment and address any conflict with teams
• Develop positive working relationships with internal and external development partner teams
• Develop partnerships to deliver exceptional motion capture recording experiences
• Serve as a communicator between all parties relevant to your work
• Host pre-production meetings and communicate the opportunities, challenges and dependencies
• Work with your teams to build a recording session schedule that aligns dependencies and budget expectations
• Coordinate the team's dependencies to support motion capture recording scopes
• Coordinate project resources toward achieving project goals
• Ensure recording plans support project schedules
• Align with artists and craft experts on a regular basis regarding workload, targets and needs
• Work with supervisors and lead in crewing, casting and scheduling bodies of work to meet overall production schedule and team needs
• Maintain asset management toolsets to organise and task development priorities
• Escalate and address impact of changes to plan
• Recognise and escalate any change that affects budget to Operations team
• Motivate approaches to overcome challenges
• Help the team make swift decisions to keep forward momentum
• Keep a weekly synopsis of discipline accomplishments and next steps
• Establish processes for communicating discipline targets, assignments and priorities to crew

Qualifications
• 5+ years as a Production Coordinator or Project Manager at a video game, VFX or entertainment company
• Autonomous worker with the ability to coordinate on-set recording activities
• You are familiar with digital character creation and animation
• You understand video game or entertainment production processes and pipelines
• You have experience coordinating recording session scope and asset deliverables
• You have experience working with asset and project management systems like Shotgrid and Monday.com
• You use project management methodologies, like Waterfall and Agile
• You can coordinate with people across several time zones and organisational levels
• You are detailed focused, organised and always assessing development priorities
• You maintain solution focused to overcome challenge

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8mnxq-3-17-6-75-42 in your application.