Technical Director Performance

About the role

Netflix Animation Studios is on a mission to entertain the world with bold, immersive animated films that are timeless and impactful. We are paving the way for the future of animation by building a community of amazing artists and talent across three vibrant locations globally. Come join us!

The Opportunity:

The Performance Technical Director is responsible for supporting creative and visual objectives through pipeline troubleshooting, user support, technical direction, and tool development. The TD exhibits relevant technical understanding of processes, technology, and tools within the layout and animation craft group/s. The TD will participate in the development of artist workflows and tools used for large-scale animation features, and can easily debug problematic workflow steps to support global studio productions in that area. The TD will collaborate closely with their craft group, the Solutions Engineering and R&D teams to enable high-quality technical outcomes and a standardized approach.

What You’ll Do:

- Understand the visual requirements for productions and suggest new technologies, or design procedures, techniques, and tools that will enable these to be met.

- Provide technical expertise and guidance for technology within the relevant production craft groups.

- Participate in or lead the direction, evolution & maintenance of technology within layout and animation.

- Design, develop, and write well-maintainable and consistently high-quality code.

- Track, debug and resolve workflow issues in partnership with Lead TDs, Technical Supervisors, Associate Technical Supervisors, Solutions Engineers and R&D.

- Work closely with other TD’s on your team to contribute to the technical success of key development initiatives.

- Ensure that technology, tools, and procedures support the creative process.

- Help provide solutions to visual problems through existing tools or by leading the implementation of new tools.

- Partner on troubleshooting & optimization of tools, software, and workflows.

- Actively participate in QA, technical testing, and validation of new technology, tool releases, or pipeline changes, such that artist workflow is not impacted.

- Understand the processes of adjoining departments, provide input where required to maximise pipeline efficiency and quality.

- Actively participate in brainstorming and problem-solving, contributing technical expertise and insight, to create and maintain technology within the canonical production pipeline.

- Support the organisation’s overall technical goals as required.

- Be aware of the deadlines for development initiatives and actively engage in keeping these on track.

- Continuously monitor the scope of development initiatives and help to ensure scope adjustments have additional estimates, etc.

- Prioritise and break down technical projects into organised parts.