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The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, understands animation workflows, and comfortable working with creative and technical teams in a fast-paced game development environment. \nCore Responsibilities \nPartner closely with Animation leadership and the Animation team to plan, organize, and track animation work across project milestones. \nBuild and maintain production schedules, task breakdowns, and delivery plans for animation features and content. \nManage day-to-day animation production, ensuring priorities, ownership, dependencies, hand-offs and next steps are clear to the team. \nTrack animation work through development, from initial planning and asset creation through implementation, review, polish, and completion. \nWork with Animators, Designers, Engineers, Technical Animators, and other disciplines to identify and coordinate cross-functional dependencies. \nFacilitate regular team meetings, reviews, planning sessions, and other production rituals, ensuring decisions and action items are captured and followed through. \nIdentify scheduling risks, blockers, and production issues early and work with the appropriate team members to develop solutions. \nMaintain accurate and up-to-date production information in Jira and other project tracking and documentation tools. \nHelp ensure animation requirements and deliverables are clearly defined and appropriately scoped and communicated before work begins. \nCoordinate with other Producers to ensure animation schedules and dependencies are aligned with broader gameplay, cinematic, character, and project goals. \nSupport milestone planning, status reporting, and forecasting for the Animation team. \nHelp improve production processes and workflows to increase clarity, predictability, and efficiency while preserving creative iteration. \nFoster clear communication and strong collaboration across Animation and its partner disciplines. \nCore Qualifications \n3+ years of production experience in the video game industry. \nExperience supporting a game development team through multiple phases of production. \nStrong understanding of game development pipelines and the dependencies between Animation, Design, Engineering, Art, and other disciplines. \nExperience building and maintaining schedules, tracking deliverables, managing dependencies, and identifying production risks. \nExperience with production tracking and documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence. \nStrong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through. \nAbility to manage multiple priorities and adapt effectively as project needs change. \nStrong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across creative and technical disciplines. \nA proactive, solutions-oriented approach to identifying and resolving production challenges. \nPlus if... \nPrevious production experience specifically supporting an Animation team. \nExperience working on a AAA, open-world, or large-scale 3D game. \nFamiliarity with character animation pipelines, including gameplay animation, locomotion, traversal, combat, cinematics, or motion capture. \nExperience working with Unreal Engine or supporting teams developing content in Unreal Engine. \nFamiliarity with motion capture planning, shoots, processing, and implementation workflows. \nExperience coordinating animation dependencies across Design, Engineering, Character Art, Technical Animation, and Cinematics. \nExperience working with external animation vendors or outsourcing partners. \nExperience supporting milestone planning and forecasting on a large multidisciplinary development team. \nDescription \nFull-time job with benefits. \nRole is on-site in Santa Monica, CA. \nOffice is located near downtown Santa Monica - near metro and freeways. \nThe base pay range for this position is $115,000 to $125,000 per year. 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