About the role
Role Overview
CounterPunch, a Virtuos Studio is seeking a skilled and dedicated Senior Producer to lead the animation production efforts for cinematics and gameplay. Based in the Kuala Lumpur studio, this role bridges creative vision with practical execution, managing schedules, budgets, and cross-functional teams to deliver top-tier animation services.
Responsibilities
- Oversee end-to-end production of animation services for cinematics and gameplay, ensuring creative goals are realized within balanced, realistic production plans.
- Coordinate multiple disciplines, drive proactive problem-solving, and foster clear communication across internal teams and external partners.
- Own project schedules, facilitate daily operations including team reviews and progress tracking, and oversee artists in North America and Kuala Lumpur.
- Champion transparency and stakeholder engagement, ensuring decision-makers have visibility into project health, risks, and opportunities via production reporting rituals.
- Collaborate with art and discipline leads to scope, build, and maintain detailed, dependency-driven production schedules.
- Translate creative ambitions into achievable production realities by balancing scope, resources, and timelines.
- Serve as the primary communication conduit within art production teams and cross-departmentally, maintaining visibility on asset status, project risks, and developmental roadmaps.
- Anticipate and resolve production challenges proactively to prevent bottlenecks.
- Manage multiple projects or initiatives concurrently, prioritizing tasks effectively.
- Facilitate daily team meetings, art reviews, and content walkthroughs, offering actionable feedback and ensuring follow-through on tasks.
- Lead studio-wide programs that enhance production efficiency, workflow, and alignment.
- Partner with studio leadership and development teams to develop and uphold realistic project timelines, budgets, and resource plans.
- Represent the project internally and externally, maintaining high-level client relationships and advocating for team objectives.
Qualifications and Experience
- Experience in live-service game production or similarly dynamic development environments.
- Working knowledge of Unreal Engine or other real-time game engines.
- Extensive experience in production leadership roles within video game animation, CG, or related interactive media environments, ideally with exposure to mid-to-large scale projects.
- Deep understanding of full production pipelines, asset dependency management, and interdisciplinary workflows, including technical art disciplines and game engine processes.
- Demonstrated success in managing budgets, team resources, and multi-faceted schedules with a high degree of organization and attention to detail.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive, solution-driven approach.
- Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, capable of motivating teams and supporting professional development.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, fluent in English (both written and spoken).
- Experience working with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Shotgrid, or similar platforms.
- Willingness and ability to adopt a hybrid work schedule to ensure significant overlap with North American time zones for effective global collaboration.