Head Of Realtime and Virtual Production

Job Description

Head of Realtime and Virtual Production (Creative)

Company Description

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MPC is one of the world's leading VFX companies and has been at the forefront of Virtual Production and Realtime integration leading to Oscar wins and nominations highly connected to those disciplines. The new year sees us continuing and renewing our efforts in this exciting and evolving field.

We are looking for an experienced leader to join our ranks to influence and shape our next-gen pipeline and tool-kit for Realtime content creation and Production Services, participating in the exciting effort to bridge gaps between the stages of production (pre, VP and post.)

The ideal candidate for this position straddles the worlds of Post Production VFX Pipelines and modern Realtime Technology.
If you are a CG or VFX supervisor that's fallen in love with Realtime and Game Engines, or a Realtime expert with leadership skills that wishes to apply their knowledge to the Film Industry we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities
• Work with CG and VFX Supervisors to translate the needs of on-show leaders into plans and design for tools and process
• Closely track and report, and help guide, progress and timing of deliverables
• Participate in client-facing efforts to enthuse our partners and consolidate planning and efforts
• Report directly to Global Head of Creative to communicate progress and status, and help shape the business
• Work with production to map technology roadmaps to show requirements
• Work closely with a creative-side technologist on Proof of Concept and proposals and with the software-side leadership on implementation
• Provide reliable and clear communication to bridge the creative and technology efforts
• Mentor and enthuse their team, and engage with shows to balance the workload and points of delivery around a roadmap they will contribute to

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience
• 7 years of experience on VFX heavy productions and/or shipped AAA titles
• 2 years of that experience in a leadership position
• Comfortably operate one or more DCC applications (Maya or Houdini preferred)
• Comfortably operate one or more game engine authoring environments (Unreal preferred)
• Ability to assemble and present proposals for new tools and process, or their improvement
• Ability to realize and present (with their team) mock-up or proof-of-concept form for selected proposals
• A calm head under pressure, and the ability to multi-task, with a focus on keeping their team effective, collaborators informed, and clients well appraised
• A coherent vision for workflow and efficiency and the ability to evangelize around it
• Communicate clearly, assertively, and respectfully across a wide range of competences and positions; both within the team and its close collaborators, as well as with business, creative and technology leadership

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj63x1-18-222-163-31-42 in your application.