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The Product Director is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the product strategy of an organization. This position plays a pivotal role in defining, planning, and overseeing the development of products that meet customer needs, drive business growth, and align with the company's strategic goals. The Product Director typically reports to the Chief Product Officer or another executive leader.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Strategy:Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's overall objectives.
   Define and communicate product goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and success metrics.
2. Market Research:Conduct market research to understand customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscapes.
   Use insights to inform product development and enhancement decisions.
3. Product Roadmap:Create and manage a comprehensive product roadmap outlining short-term and long-term development plans.
   Prioritize features and enhancements based on customer feedback, business value, and market dynamics.
4. Requirement Gathering:Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams to gather and document detailed product requirements.
   Create clear product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
5. Product Development:Work closely with engineering, design, and other teams to oversee the product development process.
   Ensure that the product is developed on time, within scope, and meets quality standards.
6. User Experience (UX) and Design:Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create user-friendly and visually appealing product interfaces.
   Validate design decisions based on user feedback and usability testing.
7. Testing and Quality Assurance:Oversee the testing and quality assurance processes to ensure the product meets defined requirements and quality standards.
   Address and prioritize issues and defects.
8. Product Launch:Plan and execute product launches, coordinating marketing, sales, and support efforts.
   Monitor product performance and gather user feedback after launch.
9. Performance Analysis:Analyze product performance and user feedback to make data-driven decisions for product improvements.
   Continuously monitor KPIs and adapt the product strategy as necessary.
10. Stakeholder Communication:Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, including executive management, development teams, marketing, and sales.
    Provide regular updates on product progress and outcomes.

Requirements:

1. Education: A bachelor's degree in business, marketing, computer science, or a related field is typically required. An MBA or relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner) may be preferred.
2. Experience: A minimum of 5-8 years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of successful product launches and improvements, is typically required.
3. Market Knowledge: Strong understanding of the market, target audience, and industry trends relevant to the product.
4. Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with technology, development processes, and product management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello).
5. Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis and the ability to make data-driven decisions to optimize the product.
6. Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
7. Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to address product challenges and make strategic decisions.
8. Leadership: Effective leadership and project management skills to guide the product development process.
9. Customer-Centric: A customer-focused mindset, with a deep understanding of user needs and the ability to advocate for user-centric product design.
10. Adaptability: The ability to adapt to changing market conditions and evolving product requirements.

The Product Director is instrumental in driving the success of the organization's products, from concept to launch and beyond. They are responsible for shaping the product strategy, overseeing development, and optimizing performance to meet business objectives and customer satisfaction.

Job Description

Position Description:

Director, Product Line Technical Lead, Experimental Design and Execution

We are seeking an energetic and collaborative person to join the Research and Development Sciences value team responsible for enabling data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists’ ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health.

As the technical leader of the Experiment Design and Execution (EDE) product line you will develop and evolve a vision for the suite of products that enable the workflows of scientific experimentation and direct a cross functional team to the successful realization of that vision, solving challenging business problems by bringing together technologies, capabilities, and talent to create products that deliver insight, efficiency, and fantastic user experience. You will help define the standard of excellence in product management in our organization and combine this with your knowledge of drug discovery and development to inspire the cross-functional product organization to deliver value to our scientists.

You will be responsible for identifying opportunities that lead to the growth of our products through constant improvement and innovation while also ensuring consistent delivery and stable operation of products. You will use your knowledge of these products to promote their meaningful use by giving product demos, sharing user stories, and showing the connection of our data and technology products to our mission to serve patients.
 

Requirements:

• Single point of accountability for Experiment Design and Execution (EDE) Product line technology vision, roadmap, and delivery ensuring strong architectural alignment of products in the product line. Proactively seek to understand technology trends, vendor marketplace and upcoming business needs to guide product teams on providing forward looking technology solutions.

• Ensure strong architectural alignment of products in the product line with the overall outcomes and success metrics of the Research and Development Sciences value team through setting and managing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

• Evaluate and provide input into strategic plans for other product lines across the Research and Development Sciences value team, identifying opportunities for experiment design and execution platform products to accelerate value delivery by user-experience product teams through creation of reusable services and capabilities.

• Coach, guide, and manage a team of technical leads, engineers, architects across product line to own technology solutions from conception to retirement, aligned with key architectural design patterns

• Ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory safety, GMP and Validation requirements. Ensure all systems are designed, built, and operated to full SDLC requirements.

• Ensure products within the product are meeting/exceeding business enablement, life cycle management SLAs and adherence to policy compliance procedures with performance metrics in place to track actual relative to goals and identify opportunities for improvement. 

• Become the key evangelist of EDE products and engage with experts within and outside of our company.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. in a scientific or technical discipline (such as computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, etc.). Pharmaceutical experience preferred but not mandatory.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years in technology product management or in IT leadership roles in complex matrix environments supporting scientific discipline such as biology, chemistry, or computational sciences

• Has managed technical product teams and architects. Proven experience in team building, mentoring, and leadership with a demonstrated ability to inspire others to follow a common vision. Ability to function in geographically distributed culturally diverse environment.

• Worked with lab management products and technologies such as notebook, lab information management, Sample Management, registration, archiving etc.

• Has experience with technical and/or solution architecture, driving better and purposeful decision making on capability and last mile solutions across the value team, experience and comfort making build-buy-assemble decisions as well as technology stack decisions.

• Awareness of relevant industry business, information and technology trends in lab systems. Demonstrated  knowledge of business processes and industry/market trends within the biopharmaceutical scientific space.

• Strong communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions. Proven negotiation and guiding through influence skills, along with good problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrate strategic thinking skills and an eagerness to learn scientific processes, drug discovery and development processes, regulatory requirements as necessary to solve problems.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Five or more years in a Drug discovery environment is preferred.

• Worked with Product Management tools like Jira, Jira Align, Workboard and has worked in agile methodologies (scrum, Kanban etc.)

• Extensive hands-on experience with one or more Inventory & Sample Management solutions, Entity Registration Systems, Lab Information Management Systems, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Request Management and/or Resource Planning systems, Chemical Registration and other laboratory software systems is desired for this position.

• Worked with one or many of the following suite of products Titian, Brooks, Dotmatics, Scilligence, Biovia, Revvity, or Benchling software will be added advantage.

• Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

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Expected salary range:

$164,800.00 - $259,400.00

Available benefits include bonus eligibility, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days.  For Washington State Jobs, a summary of benefits is listed here.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

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Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Team Summary

In the Asia Pacific region there has seen a surge in the adoption of payments using QR code. This growth is driven by multiple factors such as - the widespread use of smartphones, increasing penetration of internet services and, adoption of QR by the real-time payment networks and fintech. This growth in QR code payments in not isolated in the Asia Pacific region. It is picking pace globally and, the trend is expected to continue in the coming years.

Visa is establishing it’s Centre of Excellence in Singapore which will spearhead Visa’s QR participation in this growing trend. A dedicated team will provide strategic direction, thought leadership, product and execution support, best practices, and oversight for QR based payment for Visa. While Asia Pacific region will be its operating and learning ground, the remit of this Center of Excellence will be global. This team will templatize its learning in the region and help shape market responses globally. The person in this Director - QR Product Management position is one of the team members of this CoE and, will be responsible to managing Visa’s QR product and report to the lead of Center of Excellence based in Singapore.

What does a Director – QR Product Management does at Visa:

In your Product Management role, you will be is responsible for guiding the success of a QR product. This is a techno-commercial role spanning many types of activities, from strategic to tactical. The key expectations for the role are:

• You will be the subject matter expert on QR product. On a proactive basis you will often play the role of training and mentoring staff and, on a reactive basis you would be their go-to person for QR related questions or, problem solving.
• You will also be the advocate for Visa’s QR solutions, conducting sales pitches, workshop and training with varied players in the ecosystem including clients, merchants, regulators, and Visa’s various functional units.
• You will directly collaborate with key clients in the region and participate in their QR deployment journey. To drive adoption of QR code, you will provide them with user experience best practices, identifying right balance between convenience and security, onboarding processing or, help identify how Visa’s solution fit in their existing architecture.
• You will be expected to develop and maintain accurate, high-quality content for Sales pitches, implementation guides for Clients, internal implementation processes and, product marketing material.
• In this role you will closely monitor market trends, identify emerging opportunities, conduct periodic consumer and merchant research to remain current at all times. These activities will guide the QR product development roadmap for which you would be responsible.
• As you work with market team, clients and partners, you will also gather requirements for enhancing Visa’s QR offering. To translate these requirements into new capabilities, you will work with our internal new product development teams.
• Visa has a strong focus on growing value-added services. You will identify and commercialize different value-added services overlaying the QR payment transaction.
• You will manage the on-going components of product management such as publishing road map, billing and reporting, maintaining documentation and handling exceptions.

Why this is important to Visa

The QR is one of the key initiatives for maintaining Visa’s payment leadership position in everyday spend. This role will be Visa’s subject matter expert on QR based payment over Visa’s network. The person in this role would not only be handful few subject matter experts in the company but will shape Visa’s QR solution and commercial success in this area.

Projects you will be a part of:

In this role, you will gain understanding of payment landscape not only within Asia Pacific as well as globally. As Visa’s subject matter expert for QR code payment you will understand the current market situations and, also get to shape the future of QR payments for the industry through Visa.

Qualifications

What you will need:
We are looking for an individual who brings breadth of experience, a curiosity about payments, is results-driven and client-focused. As a candidate, you should have:

• 12 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree, 8 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD)
• Previous experience in payment is a mandatory requirement for this role. It would be preferred if the candidate has worked with cross functional team, fintech, big-tech or has lead creation of new payment ecosystem from ground-up.
• Important to the role is a client-oriented mindset when developing solutions while having a strong commercial understanding of a network business and application of leading payment technologies.
• Proven track record for growing new business, exceptional stakeholder skills and a market-focused approach and, challenge and inspire colleagues.
• This individual must be able to independently manage working-level relationships whilst being comfortable to present to executives, both for internal stakeholders and external clients.
• Ability to influence and negotiate to drive results, using analytics to measure performance against key initiatives.
• Prior experience in QR payment, fintech or, product management role would be advantageous but not mandatory.

Team Summary

In the Asia Pacific region there has seen a surge in the adoption of payments using QR code. This growth is driven by multiple factors such as - the widespread use of smartphones, increasing penetration of internet services and, adoption of QR by the real-time payment networks and fintech. This growth in QR code payments in not isolated in the Asia Pacific region. It is picking pace globally and, the trend is expected to continue in the coming years.

Visa is establishing it’s Centre of Excellence in Singapore which will spearhead Visa’s QR participation in this growing trend. A dedicated team will provide strategic direction, thought leadership, product and execution support, best practices, and oversight for QR based payment for Visa. While Asia Pacific region will be its operating and learning ground, the remit of this Center of Excellence will be global. This team will templatize its learning in the region and help shape market responses globally. The person in this Director - QR Product Management position is one of the team members of this CoE and, will be responsible to managing Visa’s QR product and report to the lead of Center of Excellence based in Singapore. 

What does a Director – QR Product Management does at Visa:

In your Product Management role, you will be is responsible for guiding the success of a QR product. This is a techno-commercial role spanning many types of activities, from strategic to tactical. The key expectations for the role are:

 

• You will be the subject matter expert on QR product. On a proactive basis you will often play the role of training and mentoring staff and, on a reactive basis you would be their go-to person for QR related questions or, problem solving.
• You will also be the advocate for Visa’s QR solutions, conducting sales pitches, workshop and training with varied players in the ecosystem including clients, merchants, regulators, and Visa’s various functional units.
• You will directly collaborate with key clients in the region and participate in their QR deployment journey. To drive adoption of QR code, you will provide them with user experience best practices, identifying right balance between convenience and security, onboarding processing or, help identify how Visa’s solution fit in their existing architecture.
• You will be expected to develop and maintain accurate, high-quality content for Sales pitches, implementation guides for Clients, internal implementation processes and, product marketing material.
• In this role you will closely monitor market trends, identify emerging opportunities, conduct periodic consumer and merchant research to remain current at all times. These activities will guide the QR product development roadmap for which you would be responsible.
• As you work with market team, clients and partners, you will also gather requirements for enhancing Visa’s QR offering. To translate these requirements into new capabilities, you will work with our internal new product development teams.
• Visa has a strong focus on growing value-added services. You will identify and commercialize different value-added services overlaying the QR payment transaction.   
• You will manage the on-going components of product management such as publishing road map, billing and reporting, maintaining documentation and handling exceptions.

Why this is important to Visa

The QR is one of the key initiatives for maintaining Visa’s payment leadership position in everyday spend. This role will be Visa’s subject matter expert on QR based payment over Visa’s network. The person in this role would not only be handful few subject matter experts in the company but will shape Visa’s QR solution and commercial success in this area.

Projects you will be a part of:

In this role, you will gain understanding of payment landscape not only within Asia Pacific as well as globally. As Visa’s subject matter expert for QR code payment you will understand the current market situations and, also get to shape the future of QR payments for the industry through Visa.

 

The Product Director is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the product strategy of an organization. This position plays a pivotal role in defining, planning, and overseeing the development of products that meet customer needs, drive business growth, and align with the company's strategic goals. The Product Director typically reports to the Chief Product Officer or another executive leader.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Strategy:Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's overall objectives.
   Define and communicate product goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and success metrics.
2. Market Research:Conduct market research to understand customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscapes.
   Use insights to inform product development and enhancement decisions.
3. Product Roadmap:Create and manage a comprehensive product roadmap outlining short-term and long-term development plans.
   Prioritize features and enhancements based on customer feedback, business value, and market dynamics.
4. Requirement Gathering:Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams to gather and document detailed product requirements.
   Create clear product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
5. Product Development:Work closely with engineering, design, and other teams to oversee the product development process.
   Ensure that the product is developed on time, within scope, and meets quality standards.
6. User Experience (UX) and Design:Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create user-friendly and visually appealing product interfaces.
   Validate design decisions based on user feedback and usability testing.
7. Testing and Quality Assurance:Oversee the testing and quality assurance processes to ensure the product meets defined requirements and quality standards.
   Address and prioritize issues and defects.
8. Product Launch:Plan and execute product launches, coordinating marketing, sales, and support efforts.
   Monitor product performance and gather user feedback after launch.
9. Performance Analysis:Analyze product performance and user feedback to make data-driven decisions for product improvements.
   Continuously monitor KPIs and adapt the product strategy as necessary.
10. Stakeholder Communication:Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, including executive management, development teams, marketing, and sales.
    Provide regular updates on product progress and outcomes.

Requirements:

1. Education: A bachelor's degree in business, marketing, computer science, or a related field is typically required. An MBA or relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner) may be preferred.
2. Experience: A minimum of 5-8 years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of successful product launches and improvements, is typically required.
3. Market Knowledge: Strong understanding of the market, target audience, and industry trends relevant to the product.
4. Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with technology, development processes, and product management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello).
5. Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis and the ability to make data-driven decisions to optimize the product.
6. Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
7. Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to address product challenges and make strategic decisions.
8. Leadership: Effective leadership and project management skills to guide the product development process.
9. Customer-Centric: A customer-focused mindset, with a deep understanding of user needs and the ability to advocate for user-centric product design.
10. Adaptability: The ability to adapt to changing market conditions and evolving product requirements.

The Product Director is instrumental in driving the success of the organization's products, from concept to launch and beyond. They are responsible for shaping the product strategy, overseeing development, and optimizing performance to meet business objectives and customer satisfaction.

In this role, you will be part of the Visa Account Updater Suite (VAUS) product team. VAUS is a suite of optional value-added products designed to streamline the process for sellers to receive the latest cardholder credentials and credential status updates. These fee-based products include Visa Account Updater (VAU) and Real Time VAU for PANs, and Visa Digital Credential Updater (VDCU) for tokens. This role will provide the candidate an incredible opportunity be part of a team that is responsible for delivering significant VAS revenue for Visa.

As the Technical Product Owner for VAU, you will help envision and manage key activities and dependencies and help resolve technical challenges needed between the different functional groups - Technology, Operations & Infrastructure, Product, etc. You will help drive planning, technical development, and delivery effort for the VAU program with key milestones identified. You may also have the opportunity to work on various strategic initiatives.

This position will be part of the Global Product Team but will partner closely with the VAU Technology Team in Bangalore.

Essential Function include:

• Work with Visa product teams and other stakeholders to ensure VAU capabilities are aligned with Visa product strategy
• Manage product roadmap and prioritized backlog including production issues and tech debts for VAU
• Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and prioritize deliverables.
• Manage JIRA Align artifacts as required to facilitate annual ATS and QBRs
• Work with architects and development teams to ensure detailed requirements are accurate, complete and can be taken up for development
• Ensure all requirements are well articulated in JIRA Align as Epics/Features for Engineering team and dependent teams
• Manage inter team dependencies to ensure timely deliveries including any front door requirements
• Facilitate end to end product delivery as needed by undertaking any requirement clarification, scoping, creating functional test scenarios, UAT signs offs, Release communications etc.
• Work with Visa SMEs and Analysts to articulate existing system behavior
• Participate in all agile ceremonies like Team Demos, Retrospectives, sprint planning, and daily standups.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Job Summary: The Product Director is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the product strategy of an organization. This position plays a pivotal role in defining, planning, and overseeing the development of products that meet customer needs, drive business growth, and align with the company's strategic goals. The Product Director typically reports to the Chief Product Officer or another executive leader.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Strategy:Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's overall objectives.
   Define and communicate product goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and success metrics.
2. Market Research:Conduct market research to understand customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscapes.
   Use insights to inform product development and enhancement decisions.
3. Product Roadmap:Create and manage a comprehensive product roadmap outlining short-term and long-term development plans.
   Prioritize features and enhancements based on customer feedback, business value, and market dynamics.
4. Requirement Gathering:Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams to gather and document detailed product requirements.
   Create clear product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
5. Product Development:Work closely with engineering, design, and other teams to oversee the product development process.
   Ensure that the product is developed on time, within scope, and meets quality standards.
6. User Experience (UX) and Design:Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create user-friendly and visually appealing product interfaces.
   Validate design decisions based on user feedback and usability testing.
7. Testing and Quality Assurance:Oversee the testing and quality assurance processes to ensure the product meets defined requirements and quality standards.
   Address and prioritize issues and defects.
8. Product Launch:Plan and execute product launches, coordinating marketing, sales, and support efforts.
   Monitor product performance and gather user feedback after launch.
9. Performance Analysis:Analyze product performance and user feedback to make data-driven decisions for product improvements.
   Continuously monitor KPIs and adapt the product strategy as necessary.
10. Stakeholder Communication:Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, including executive management, development teams, marketing, and sales.
    Provide regular updates on product progress and outcomes.

Requirements:

1. Education: A bachelor's degree in business, marketing, computer science, or a related field is typically required. An MBA or relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner) may be preferred.
2. Experience: A minimum of 5-8 years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of successful product launches and improvements, is typically required.
3. Market Knowledge: Strong understanding of the market, target audience, and industry trends relevant to the product.
4. Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with technology, development processes, and product management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello).
5. Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis and the ability to make data-driven decisions to optimize the product.
6. Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
7. Problem-Solving: strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to address product challenges and make strategic decisions.
8. Leadership: Effective leadership and project management skills to guide the product development process.
9. Customer-Centric: A customer-focused mindset, with a deep understanding of user needs and the ability to advocate for user-centric product design.
10. Adaptability: The ability to adapt to changing market conditions and evolving product requirements.

The Product Director is instrumental in driving the success of the organization's products, from concept to launch and beyond. They are responsible for shaping the product strategy, overseeing development, and optimizing performance to meet business objectives and customer satisfaction.

Job Title: Pipeline Technical Director - VFX

Department: Production & Operations – India

Location: Mumbai - Onsite

Mirriad creates contextually relevant advertising opportunities within existing video content across multiple shows. Advertisers can reach target audiences within the content they have chosen to watch without interrupting their viewing experience.

Mirriad is headquartered in London and has deals with major content producers and works with top video platforms and broadcasters in the world’s largest advertising markets by spend.

Summary of Position

As the Pipeline Technical Director, in close collaboration with SMEs in the UK and US, you will be the custodian of all pipeline tools, software and workflows; responsible for ensuring the availability of and adherence to the agreed processes and practices and ensure all VFX campaigns / projects are delivered efficiently to the highest standards.

Reporting:

Locally: Managing Director – India

Globally: CTO / Head of Product

Customers:

External: Client/s
Internal: Operations, Product/Tech, Production

Responsibilities:

Pipeline Solution Development

• Steer / lead design, development, implementation, and constant improvement of the Mirriad production pipeline.
• Liaise with Production and Product to determine and update pipeline requirements, goals, and challenges.
• Proactively engage and liaise with Ops – Production - Tech on new tools, processes & features to stay on the leading edge of new developments in the industry.
• Customize existing tools and develop and identify new tools/plug-ins and interfaces to automate processes, optimize workflow, and increase efficiency of the production pipeline.Pipeline refinements should enable our teams to identify and create inventory and in-content Virtual Product Placements efficiently and to the highest creative standards.
• Ensure requests for new tools relate to company strategy and perform testing to ensure they can be inserted seamlessly into existing toolset.

Workflow Standardization – Optimization - Documentation:

• Maintain and develop libraries (Python) and APIs for our core pipeline tools to meet the requirements of current and future visual effects projects.
• Document and maintain the pipeline code, tools, and processes to ensure consistency, reliability, and scalability.

Training & Support:

• Identifying & providing training needs as required to members of the team to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to use the pipeline effectively.

• Provide real-time technical support to end users, implementing bug fixes or suggesting solutions and work arounds.

• Operate with a “continuous improvement” mindset, taking learnings from unforeseen issues where workarounds were required and work to create counter measures and solutions for them to be integrated into the pipeline.

• Report common issues arising within Operations & Production.

Problem Identification & Resolution

• Pro-actively monitor and troubleshoot the pipeline to identify and resolve issues and bottlenecks before they impact production.

• Perform root cause analysis of challenges and provide solutions to mitigate the same.
• Work closely with the production team to manage priorities, deadlines, and resources, and ensure the pipeline meets our projects’ needs.

Skills & Competencies Required:

• 12-15 years’ experience in VFX for films, commercials, or television
• University degree in Computer Science, VFX, Arts and/or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of the pipeline and workflow specific to VFX industry
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages like: Python, Maya Mel, Maya API, C, C#, C++, PySide, PyQt, PyMel, HTML, SQL
• Skilled on building systems in Windows and Linux environments
• Experience in developing Python based tools and plugins for DCC software/technology packages such as Nuke, Premiere Pro, Maya, Houdini, Shotgrid API, Arnold, V-Ray (or similar renderer), Unreal Engine, Unity Engine, Jira etc.
• Experience in 3D, modelling/animation/rendering techniques, imaging format, lighting, etc.
• Excellent working knowledge of all areas of Post workflow, from ingest to archive, including nuances of 2D/3D pipelines
• Experience with multisite and global pipeline
• Good knowledge of Shotgrid and having the ability to work with Shotgrid and further its integration into a pipeline
• Good skills in software engineering/debugging
• Basic Jira and agile development knowledge
• Ability to design scalable/partner agnostic systems
• Ability to research, implement and modify both new and existing techniques and methodologies as they relate to VFX/Postproduction workflow
• Demonstrable experience documenting pipelines/data flow and tools and providing guidance to entire (end-to-end) analysis and production team
• Understanding of moving data through the pipeline
• Proactive mindset with the ability to work on multiple high-level projects concurrently

Family healthcare

Bonus