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About the role

  • Animation Supervisor leading teams and hands-on production for Kickstart Entertainment’s animated series. Ensuring creative quality, pipeline continuity, and on-time delivery across partner studios.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the animation team and contribute directly to animation production as needed
  • Ensure alignment with the Director’s vision and delivery of high-quality work within schedule
  • Review, revise, and advise teams on animation execution across all production phases
  • Help establish and maintain the overall series look and style
  • Provide creative direction, feedback, and mentorship to the animation team
  • Contribute to key/hero shots, complex sequences, and support work
  • Balance hands-on animation work with supervisory responsibilities
  • Provide ideas and solutions for production technology and pipeline concerns with the overseas partner studio
  • Collaborate with the Line Producer and Director to meet production deadlines and quality requirements
  • Interpret and implement the Director and Client’s vision
  • Review shots from layout to final compositing for quality, continuity, and readiness
  • Align priorities with the Director and Production team, set objectives, conduct check-ins, monitor progress, and report results
  • Participate in weekly calls with partner studio teams to solve creative and technical problems
  • Update Animation Department workflow and best-practice documentation
  • Contribute to post-mortem/retrospective reports
  • Participate in production-related meetings and address team concerns
  • Cultivate strong client communication and care
  • Flag animation and technical issues affecting schedule or quality
  • Ensure adherence to pipeline requirements, naming conventions, file management standards, and security protocols
  • Troubleshoot creative and technical issues across animation and adjacent departments
  • Collaborate with the Creative Director and IT Team to implement productivity-enhancing tools and workflows
  • Coordinate materials and information flow with overseas partner studios
  • Lead and manage in alignment with Kickstart’s Core Values

Requirements

  • 5+ years of industry experience in animation, with 2+ years in a supervisory or lead role
  • Extensive experience working on animated series productions (2D, CG, or hybrid pipelines)
  • Strong proficiency in Maya, Harmony, Nuke, and/or relevant animation software, depending on pipeline
  • Excellent understanding of animation principles, performance, acting, timing, and style consistency
  • Proven experience reviewing and providing actionable feedback on animation work at scale
  • Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience mentoring artists and leading reviews
  • Experience working with overseas partner studios and distributed teams, and attending meeting times that align across multiple time zones
  • Strong understanding of animation pipelines, including layout, animation, FX, and compositing workflows
  • Working knowledge of Flow Production Tracking (fka Shotgrid)
  • Proficiency in Google Workspace (Mail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs) and Slack
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to balance creative direction with production realities, including schedule and budget constraints
  • Demonstrates initiative, accountability, and sound judgment in escalation and decision-making
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced production environment
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a collaborative mindset

Benefits

  • Supportive, creative, and collaborative work environment
  • Inclusive and accessible workplace
  • Equal employment opportunities
  • Recruitment process accommodations
  • Hybrid work arrangement (combination of in-studio and remote work)

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$93,600 - CA$104,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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