Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Global Supervision and Planning

• Work with local HoDs and Studio Leadership to identify current department and pipeline bottlenecks and inefficiencies that will feed into the overall prioritization and roadmapping process.

• Represent the local studio priorities at the global level for technology and workflow planning efforts.

• Ensure the local studio CG and R&D teams are aware of the global plans and priorities and the reasons behind decisions in partnership with the Pipeline Workflow team; evangelize the decisions within the local studio.

• Actively participate in the global prioritization processes; be part of the team proposing what shows and problems our development resources will focus on.

• Assist with guiding and coordinating collaboration with key Disney partners including Disney Research, Pixar and Disney Animation.

• Act as bridge between shows, departments and tech.

• Foster and model global communication and collaboration.

Bidding/Pre-Production

• Assist in establishing teams for tests; ensure they are making maximum use of the studio’s tools to showcase our capabilities in the best possible way.

Shows

• Guide shows through the show CG lifecycle ensuring they follow global standards and best practices; communicate show progression to global show teams.

• Work with the show CG Supervisor to develop the show approach plan; ensure there is a manageable amount of risk in the plan; make shows aware of new tools/tech during initial planning.

• Ensure show leadership teams understand their responsibilities for triage and support, the studio responsibilities and the global development team responsibilities; work with the show leadership team (CG and Production) to ensure the show is appropriately staffed for triage and support.

• Assist the show leadership with crewing and casting as necessary.

• Identify high value shows and work to make the case for above normal development and technology investment to be made.

• Track show progress with the CG supervisor; ensure issues are escalated when necessary, and that achievements are shared globally across shows.

• In partnership with Pipeline Strategy & Workflow team, as well as Prod Tech Leadership, review post-show reviews; work with global CG, Production and Technology Leadership to help create improvement plans.

R&D

• Partner with Pipeline Strategy & Workflow team to understand long-term roadmap goals and priorities, and enforce those development plans for the dept they oversee.

• For certain key initiatives, act as product owner for key development projects and technologies ensuring the artist viewpoint is properly represented; provide expert input to development as appropriate.

• As appropriate, partner with engineering and discipline experts to investigate new tools and techniques to push creative capabilities to new levels.

• As directed by the Head of CG, participate in regular project status reviews to ensure development is on track and aligned with roadmap plans.

CG

• Run the local CG Supervisor and HoD meetings to ensure workflow, technology and resource knowledge and experience is shared across shows and studios; actively participate in the global meetings when meeting times permit.

• Lead cross studio per-discipline HoD/Supe/Lead meetings as delegated by the Head of CG to ensure the global area leads are in regular communication and working together to enforce canonical workflows and techniques.

• Assist Talent Managers and HoDs with crewing decisions as required.

• Assist training departments and HoDs in developing relevant material as needed.

Studios

• Partner with local Studio Leadership to assist on any local challenges, issues or planning needs.

• Assist the Studio Technology Leads with budget planning; ensure they understand the global development priorities and trends, and plan appropriately for the year ahead.

• Partner with local Digital Resource Manager and shows to assist with ongoing resource usage monitoring, as well as projections, for proc, storage, desktop and GPU resources.

• Assist with recruiting/interviews as needed.

Vendors

• Actively work to maintain strong vendor relationships; ensure vendors are aware of what is important to us.

• Keep up with plans and roadmaps and ensure they are communicated to the local and global teams; work to positively influence their roadmaps to complement our priorities.

• Own the local studio support process; coordinate and prioritize local support requests and communicate globally.

• In partnership with the Pipeline Strategy & Workflow team, actively seek new vendors and tools; communicate findings internally (globally) and help setup evaluations.