Technical Artist

Job Description

Technical Artist - (Shotgun Specialist)

Technicolor Creative Studios is a creative technology company providing world-class production expertise driven by one purpose: The realization of ambitious and extraordinary ideas. Home to a network of award-winning studios, MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation and Technicolor Games, we inspire creative companies across the world to produce their most iconic work.
Our global teams of artists and technologists partner with the creative community across film, television, animation, gaming, brand experience and advertising to bring the universal art of storytelling to audiences everywhere.

We are currently looking for talented and enthusiastic Technical Artist specializing in Shotgun/ shotgrid to join the Production team in Bangalore. The Technical Artist is responsible for the successful implementation and maintenance of ShotGrid - with a focus on setting workflows, introducing new features and onboarding productions.

Primary Responsibilities
• Be the main point of contact and the studio expert on ShotGrid.
• WORKFLOWS:
• Partner with the key stakeholders on setting best practices with regards to ShotGrid and all the reports it feeds.
• Propose the most efficient ways of tracking and reporting the progress of a project.
• Strive to reduce manual inputs and set up automations to the extent possible.
• Onboard & customize new templates for: Departments & Projects.
• Interface should be user friendly.
• TRAINING:
• Ensure that Producers, PMs, Coordinators, PAs, Supervisors, Artists and Technical Directors are trained on how to use ShotGrid and aware of the best practices / workflows.
• Be responsible for the training of all new joiners.
• DEVELOPMENT:
• Partner closely with the Technology team on any new features that need to be developed.
• Seek regular feedback from all end users and work towards improving their experience.
• Maintain a log of all development work and schedule them with the development team.
• Ensure that the scope of work is clear for the developers.
• Help prepare mockups, if needed.
• In close partnership with the Sr. Management, prioritize the future requests.
• Anticipate and communicate issues with potential solutions or dependencies.
• Communicate all changes/updates/roadmap to all end users.
• Be in touch with ShotGrid/Autodesk for any support needed.
• Ensure Dashboards with project status overview is created and maintained for existing & new shows that are getting started.
• Integrate ShotGrid with Google sheets.
• COMPLIANCE:
• Setup a mechanism to validate the information in ShotGrid.
• Send regular reports to the team on overdue tasks, wrong entries or data and work with them to resolve.
• Manage & partner with DMs for ensuring time logs are generated & validated in a regular basis.

Qualifications
• Must have 2+ years of experience with Tracking tools, with specific proficiency in ShotGrid.
• Proficient in Google Docs, Microsoft Office, especially Excel.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4q5nq-216-73-216-84-42 in your application.