About the role
About Big Shot Pictures
Big Shot Pictures is a next generation animation company founded by Brian Robbins that produces the franchises of tomorrow. With a distinctive digital-first approach, the company builds global animation franchises across all platforms – from digital to theatrical, gaming to streaming, and consumer products to experiences.
About The Role
We are seeking an Animation Producer to lead serialized kids and family animation production through a real-time led pipeline (Unreal Engine). This role oversees the animation workflow from initial kickoff through final delivery, ensuring content is produced efficiently, consistently, and at a high level of quality. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating at the intersection of creative execution, real-time technology, and AI-assisted workflows, and thrives in fast-moving, modern production environments.
Responsibilities
- Plan, track, and deliver narrative-driven, linear animation production (short-form) built and rendered in Unreal Engine
- Partner with asset creation, animation, and creative leadership to align artistic intent with pipeline and schedule parameters
- Identify pipeline risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks; proactively drive solutions that favor real-time iteration over traditional offline workflows
- Facilitate clear communication between creative, technical, and production stakeholders
- Administer day to day production leadership to a growing team of in-house and remote artists across pipeline disciplines
- Anticipate and communicate resourcing need to meet both stated and forecasted project goals
- Distinguish best practices for production-minded AI-tooling workflows to improve iteration, scalability, and production efficiency across teams
- Assist in the implementation of AI-assisted animation workflows in collaboration with product, creative, and engineering teams
- Ensure animation quality, consistency, and performance across all stages of production
Required Qualifications
- Ability to proactively champion one to several dynamic, high output episodic efforts on time, within budget, and with quality
- Confidence and discernment in team leadership throughout evolving, iterative, and, exploratory tasks against a delivery schedule
- Proven experience managing CG and/or realtime animation production pipelines from start to finish, with a working knowledge of realtime artist workflows
- Experience working cross-functionally with animation, technical art, asset creation, narrative, and development teams
- Comfortable integrating AI tooling within animation and production workflows
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Linear-Iterative Hybrid Pipeline Planning (Parameter modeling against exploratory or high uncertaintly processes)
- Confidence working with creative collaborators on high profile IPs
- Experience producing content rendered directly in Unreal Engine
- Familiarity with modern character pipeline (MetaHuman experience an additional plus)
- Comfortability collaborating with product and engineering teams for inter-team workflow improvement efforts
- Familiarity with project management software such as Airtable
- Passion for building scalable, future-facing animation pipelines