Position Summary

The VFX Producer’s role is to partner with the Visual Effects Supervisor and other key creative leadership to lead crew in fulfilling the Director's vision -- on time and on budget, while maintaining highest quality of work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Meet with clients to review scripts, breakdowns and storyboards for a specific project.

• Partner with Key Creatives to develop the approach for creating the effects work and provide clients with estimates of budget & schedule requirements needed to complete the work.

• Prepare bid letter, key dates schedule, and assumptions for the work of a specific project.

• During production, serve as principal client contact for non-creative issues, tracking and reporting progress of work, budgeting and negotiating cost of work, and delivering cost/schedule changes to ensure client is updated as needed.

• Create, organize, and maintain overall project schedule.

• Supervise assigned production staff.

• Estimate project budgets and initiate cost controls for each production.

• Evaluate EFC and work with production accountants to provide management with early, consistent, and accurate EFC reporting.

• Participate and oversee work on-set as required.

• Play a proactive key role in marketing ILM's services to the industry.

• Share responsibility for the success of the entire ILM portfolio by proactively managing schedules, utilizing ILM’s global resources and 3rd party partners where appropriate.

• The role may also require travel for client meetings and/or plate shoots work on the same schedule as first or second unit production

Education / Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Film or related field or equivalent work experience required.

Required Skills / Technical Competencies

• Proven work experience in production management to include strong working knowledge of Visual Effects techniques and terminology.

• Proficiency in Macs/PCs including Microsoft Word and Excel and project planning tools.

• Must possess very strong organizational and communication skills and be able to handle a variety of tasks in an efficient manner while meeting deadlines.

Relocation & UK Work Visa available if required 

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