Due to our continued success and growth REALTIME are excited to announce a brand new role into the business a Production Director!

We are looking for someone who has come from being an experienced Head of Production with a proven track record of delivering creative, high quality CG or similar productions within budget and deadlines. You’ll be a great communicator with a strong ability to organise and motivate production teams. As well as this you’ll be an all round inspiring leader, problem solver, team player, and have the ability to keep your teams motivated.

The main responsibilities of this position are to manage the health of productions across the studio and to manage production teams along with our EP’s. The Production Director has oversight of all project budgets and schedules and specific responsibility for project revenues and costs pertaining to project work across the studio.

Production Management

• Responsible for recruitment and daily management of Senior Production team

• Appraisals of all EP’s/Head of departments

• Allocate relevant producers and assess resource needs for each project

• Key point of contact for issues arising in productions, escalating issues and recommendations to relevant stakeholders and CEO where needed

• Work with the Head of Operations to monitor production tools, workflows, new show pipeline needs and procedures

Studio Directorship

• Be an inspiring leader that provides leadership and direction to the team, creating and embedding a culture where continuous improvement is embraced

• To maintain an overview of all production schedules, ensuring projects are completed to highest standard achievable

• Ensure the highest possible utilization of staff across the studio.

• Look at data to pull out insight and make changes where needed but also engage with your team to manage issues
• Manage the Business Development teams and ensure that the projects coming in are in line with REALTIME’s strategy

Budgetary Control

• Responsible for working with the Financial Manager and Heads of to set approved budgets at start of projects

• Monitoring project costs in line with production progress and overall budgetary targets

• Meeting regularly with Producers and Heads of departments to monitor their project budgets and ensure that they are working within given targets

Additional Responsibilities

• Act as a hands on Head of Production when needed

• To liaise with the Talent team and other key support departments as needed

• To act as ambassador for REALTIME and promote a professional, creative and vibrant environment to the games, Episodic and Automotive industries

• Establish weekly reports to the general management
• Lead by example with internal teams

Must Have Skills and Qualities

• 5 years of experience as a Head of Production or similar in an established VFX or post-production studio
• Thorough knowledge of production and post-production pipelines in general
• Excellent presentation and strong communication skills
• Be motivated, solution orientated with a positive attitude
• Strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Perform well under deadline pressure in a fast paced environment, prioritising different tasks to achieve the project goals
• Have experience of assessing scripts/storyboards in order to determine requirements & produce quotes
• Be able to assess and critique work with Creative Leads and delivering feedback to the team
• Flexible, responsive and diplomatic, you adapt easily to a working group and you have
  already managed teams
• Very well organized with strong communication skills and an excellent attention to detail

Bonus

• Working knowledge of Shotgun