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About the role

  • CG Technology Supervisor connecting Houdini R&D, production pipelines, and customer needs at SideFX. Shaping CG workflows, feature priorities, and user experience.

Responsibilities

  • Propose, scope, and validate new frameworks, features, and workflows with developers, technical directors, and internal teams
  • Ensure solutions meet CG production demands, with emphasis on pipeline viability, performance, and user experience
  • Collaborate with developers to clarify and uphold priorities across relevance, completeness, usability, feasibility, and resources
  • Monitor development progress and communicate status to R&D and other teams
  • Maintain and enforce consistent workflows, features, and best practices across Houdini
  • Identify and map bottlenecks and dependencies before they become blockers
  • Serve as tie-breaker on user-facing project aspects when R&D consensus cannot be reached
  • Meet with clients and industry stakeholders to gather feedback and validate product plans, frameworks, and features
  • Research and prototype emerging technologies relevant to the assigned domain
  • Inform R&D and the broader company about relevant technology areas
  • Occasionally represent SideFX at marketing or industry events
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • 5+ years of senior-level production experience, preferably in film
  • Strong working knowledge of Houdini, including procedural workflows and day-to-day artist and technical director usage in production
  • Deep domain expertise in an assigned area such as animation, motion editing, image processing, sequencing/editorial, lighting, rendering, or compositing
  • Proven ability to influence priorities and align cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority
  • Experience providing structured feedback to engineering teams on tools used in real production work
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and defining processes and priorities
  • Ability to work independently and in a nimble team environment
  • Knowledge of Python programming and software development skills
  • Production experience as a CG Supervisor or VFX Supervisor is a bonus
  • Familiarity with Houdini's underlying architecture, including C++, Qt, and Python UI/UX layers, is a bonus
  • Public speaking or client-facing experience is a bonus

Benefits

  • Career growth and professional development opportunities
  • Opportunity to contribute to Houdini and its user community
  • Opportunity to work alongside CG industry experts and interact with an artist community

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

PythonQtC++

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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