As the Lead TD, you will be deeply involved in designing and developing innovative tools to overcome specific challenges related to the department’s developments for our next animated feature film. This effort seeks to implement solutions that off the shelf software would not provide, while maximizing productivity and meeting the company’s high-quality standards. The scope of the developments may be from a simple python script to a larger development involving complex algorithms.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain the required tools following the specifications provided 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.

- Work on short term needs resulting from shot challenges.

- Lead the team motivating through support, guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their professional growth.

- Follow the Supervisor’s guidance.

- Manage individual and team project priorities, deadlines and deliverables, assigning tasks according to skills and preferences.

- Oversee day-to-day operation.

- 6+ years of professional experience.

- Proven work experience as a team leader.

- Expert inPython.

- Experience programming with one or more of the following software: Maya, Houdini, Nuke and Mari.

- Experience working with a source version control system (git).

- Experience with Arnold.

- 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).