About the role
Company Description
Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential. Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 800 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris. Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. and Sony.
Work Arrangements
As an artist-founded and artist-led company, creativity is at the heart of everything we do. Due to their strategic role in team alignment, decision-making, culture representation, and organizational leadership, members of leadership are expected to work from the studio five days per week. This presence supports direct collaboration, faster decision-making, and essential proximity with teams, while actively contributing to the vitality and consistency of our studio culture.
Summary
Rodeo FX is looking for a Head of Technology Resource Management (TRM) to bring data-driven discipline to our global technology infrastructure across all affiliated studios. In this role, you will lead capacity planning, workload optimization, and resource forecasting across the group's compute, storage, network, and archival environments. You will ensure that our artists across all affiliated studios have the high-performance technology required to deliver award-winning visuals efficiently, while balancing production demands, infrastructure availability, performance, and cost. You will work closely with Systems, Pipeline, Production, Finance, and Technology leadership across the organization to anticipate infrastructure needs, optimize resource allocation, and align technology investments with production and business priorities.
Main Responsibilities
Capacity Planning & Forecasting
- Establish forecasting models for compute, high-performance storage, network bandwidth, and long-term archival capacity across all affiliated studios active productions.
- Forecast infrastructure requirements based on production schedules, workloads, project complexity, and business priorities.
- Identify upcoming capacity constraints and proactively develop mitigation strategies.
- Establish global standards and processes for technology capacity planning.
Infrastructure Resource Optimization
- Develop and manage the capacity allocation strategy across on-premises infrastructure and cloud resources, balancing availability, performance, cost, and production requirements.
- Monitor infrastructure utilization and throughput to identify bottlenecks and optimize compute, storage, and network performance.
- Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure efficiency while maintaining production requirements and service levels.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Systems, Pipeline, Production, Finance, and Technology leadership across affiliated studios to align infrastructure capacity and investments with production needs and business priorities.
- Translate production requirements and technology roadmaps into infrastructure capacity, resource, and cost requirements.
- Provide stakeholders with clear visibility into infrastructure utilization, technology costs, and financial impact, and recommend cost-effective solutions.
- Advise on infrastructure investments, cloud utilization, and resource allocation, balancing cost, performance, capacity, and production requirements.
Data, Monitoring & Reporting
- Enhance automated dashboards providing leadership with visibility into infrastructure utilization, capacity, performance, and forecasted demand.
- Establish KPIs and benchmarks for compute, storage, network, and archival utilization.
- Leverage operational and financial data to support capacity, investment, and resource allocation decisions.
- Continuously improve forecasting models, reporting, and resource management processes.
Qualifications
- Bilingual: French and English.
- Experience: 8+ years of technical leadership experience in VFX/animation resource management, systems architecture, infrastructure, or render farm management.
- Technical Expertise: Deep expertise in enterprise compute architecture, high-performance storage, render management, and cloud infrastructure.
- Tools: Strong knowledge of render managers such as Tractor and Deadline, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Analysis: Advanced quantitative and financial analysis skills, with experience in capacity modeling, forecasting, and technology budgeting.
- Performance: Proven ability to optimize infrastructure performance, utilization, and cost at scale.
- Industry Knowledge: Strong understanding of VFX production environments and the infrastructure requirements of complex, high-volume productions.
- Communication: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven track record of aligning Production Management, Systems, Technology, Finance, and Executive leadership.
- Preference: Experience in a large-scale VFX or animation studio environment is strongly preferred.
Additional Information
- Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent.
- Time Off: 5 paid sick/personal days; 2 additional statutory holidays in the winter holidays.
- Benefits: Group Insurance, access to Dialogue online support, and to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Financial: RRSP with employer contribution.
- Discounts: Discounts on public transports, several spas, sports classes, art center, cafes, furniture, and several other local businesses.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At Rodeo FX, diversity is a core value. We’re committed to creating an inclusive, equitable workplace where different perspectives are embraced. Every team member brings unique insight that strengthens our creativity, challenges our thinking, and helps us deliver better work.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment
Rodeo FX may use AI-based tools to support certain steps of the recruitment process, such as interview transcription or preliminary application analysis. These tools never replace human decision-making: all final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team and hiring managers.