Skydance · 5 months ago
Pipeline Technical Director
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$118K/yr - $150K/yr
3+ years expSkydance is a diversified media company that fosters a dynamic and inclusive culture, focusing on innovative storytelling through technology. The Technical Director will design and develop tools to address specific challenges in animation production, collaborating closely with artists and production management to maximize productivity and quality.
AnimationBroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFilmFilm ProductionMedia and EntertainmentMusicNewsTVTV Production
Responsibilities
TDs are embedded within the productions to closely collaborate and support the artists and production management
Reports to the Production Technology Supervisor on the status of technical development projects, tool performance, production operations and support statuses
Develop and maintain the required tools following the requirements supplied by the production departments and following the Production Engineering Team guides
Partner with Artists and other Engineers to iterate, debug, document, and refine tools and processes for feature film production
Acts as the first line of support to solve day-to-day problems artists may encounter
Work on short-term needs, originated by shot challenges
Qualification
Required
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, or comparable discipline and/or technical and creative knowledge gained through equivalent experience
Expert in Python
Experience programming with one or more of the following software: Maya, Houdini, Nuke, and Mari
Experience with Post and Preproduction workflows
Experience with Non-linear editing suites: e.g. Avid Media Composer, Premiere, Resolve
Familiar with common media encodings and transcoding software: e.g. ffmpeg
Experience in Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems
Experience working with a source version control system (git)
Experience in animation productions
Good understanding of production pipelines
Experience with agile development and scrum methodology
User interaction design with a working knowledge of standard UI toolkits (PySide2)
Preferred
3+ years of experience preferred
Experience in computer animation, visual effects, or the game industry
Experience supporting animation pre-production departments such as Story, Editorial, and Previz
Experience with pipeline and plugin development in third party DCC tools
Experience with software development languages such as Java, Javascript, C++
Experience with other toolkits and systems such as Qt, Docker, Git, AWS
Experience with OSX, Windows, and Linux operating systems
Company
Skydance
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.68BKey Investors
JP MorganKohlberg Kravis RobertsRedBird Capital Partners
2025-08-07IPO
2023-07-11Debt Financing· $1B
2022-10-13Private Equity· $400M
Leadership Team
Brian Green
Character Supervisor
Jon Weinbach
President, Skydance Sports
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