Houdini Technical Consultant

Job Description

Position Overview

We are seeking an exceptional individual to join our talented Technical Consulting Team, reporting to the Technical Consulting Manager.

As a Houdini Technical Consultant your main role is to develop workflows and create tools with Houdini that enable a broad community of artists to create content procedurally.

You are a Houdini advocate, communicating Houdini's value and features to our customers in the Asia Pacific markets. As an experienced industry professional with strong and well-rounded Houdini skills, you are comfortable with on-the-spot troubleshooting. You are an excellent listener who takes the time to understand what our users hope to achieve and helps them reach their goals.

With strong communication skills, you love to share your knowledge with others and are comfortable presenting in a variety of media, both online and in person. We continue to expand rapidly into game, media and entertainment studios worldwide and would like you to bring your expertise to the thousands of artists who use our technology.

As part of the Technical Consulting Team, you will also work closely with R&D, Sales, Marketing and Education. You can expect occasional travel, sometimes internationally whether, for example, to visit customers or attend professional events.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Primary Responsibility
• Learn existing tools and workflows in Houdini.
• Communicate with customers both in person and on-line in meetings, webinars, live streams, and the like.
• Explore and prototype workflows and share the results with our R&D team.
• Identify, develop, test, document and deploy tools and workflows that solve real production problems for our customer.
• Support our Sales Team as needed by providing specialized knowledge to further relationships with both prospective and existing customers.
• Report on industry trends and relay customer feedback to internal teams as appropriate. Keep track of your interactions and make notes available to others at SideFX.
• Be a champion of our company and represent SideFX to the larger CG community.
• Participate as needed in public channels where Houdini tools are discussed.
• Occasionally create demo content to be shown at various trade shows and Houdini related events.
• From time to time conduct training for customers.
• Collaborate on materials to assist sales team in communicating with customers.
• Assist in opening the SideFX office in Singapore, which could include general administration, employee on onboarding and training.
• You will work closely with our Marketing, R&D, Finance and Education departments.
• To build strong customer relationships you can expect to travel about once per month, sometimes internationally, whether to visit customers or events such as conferences, trade shows, user groups and the like.

Secondary responsibility
• Building for the future - while in-year revenue is important, we realize our technology takes time to be fully embraced so you will be ''planting seeds'' for business development and future growth.
• You will develop a number of relationship and insights into our customers and will be expected to maintain our CRM (Customer Relationship Management system) with key contacts and other relevant shared information.
• Other duties as appropriately assigned.

Required Skills and Experience
• Minimum of 3 years experience in the games, media, and entertainment industry.
• Minimum of 3 years Houdini experience with demonstrated competency in a production setting.
• Practical knowledge of common 3D CG pipelines.
• Must have great interaction skills and the ability to connect with others in person and online.
• Strong presentation skills. Must be able to create and present content in Houdini fluently.
• A demonstrated passion for procedural processes and tools, and a drive to share that passion.
• Strong written and verbal English and Mandarin communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Must have great interaction skills and the ability to connect with others in person and online.
• Ability to work and operate remotely, sometimes with a high degree of autonomy.
• Able to articulate an understanding of the business side of development, and the challenges faced by developers in an evolving landscape.
• Flexibility to work off hours and attended meetings in the EST and PST times zones.

Bonus Skills
• Realtime experience a plus.
• Business development, marketing, education or sales experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a field relating to Computer Graphics, Animation, VFX or equivalent experience/education.
• Have experience as a Technical Director at a VFX or animation studio.
• Experience creating learning materials or teaching production software.

Location

Singapore Office

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SideFX is committed to inclusion and diversity. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. Accommodation will be provided to candidates with disabilities, upon request.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb9vy6-216-73-216-0-42 in your application.