Rooster Teeth Animation is looking for a talented and passionate Pre-Production Project Coordinator to join its art team in Austin, Texas. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in a production environment helping to manage a team of artists and mitigate challenges that arise within production. The ideal candidate will keep a cool head under pressure and be able to multi-task assignments and priorities across production.
Please note, in this climate of constant change, candidates must be able to work and telecommunicate from home, as well as be able to work onsite if/when that becomes an option.
- Applications without portfolios will not be considered.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with managing producer to fulfill the needs of production.
- Task out assignments to artists and manage their time according to their needs and schedule.
- Communicate progress, delays, issues or variances, to the relevant people or departments on a daily basis or as required
- Create and maintain accurate and up to date documentation
- Participate in daily and weekly meetings regarding Art and workflow.
- Attend and take accurate notes at meetings or reviews and any other relevant production meetings
- Deal with external vendors, help manage documentation and draft contracts between third-parties and production.
- Help manage dept resource planning.
- Communicate with other department producers, coordinators, and leads in a professional manner to help fulfill their needs.
Qualifications
- 1-2 years of related industry experience.
- Must Have Shotgun Experience
- Passionate and knowledgeable about animation and its processes.
- Experience managing complex projects to deadline and on budget.
- Must possess a proactive βcan-doβ attitude; come to work everyday ready to solve problems and be a team player.
- Ability to champion collaboration and decisively act under pressure.
- Highly organized in time management, with the ability to work autonomously and prioritize tasks.
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Well versed in documentation and its intricacies
- Solid knowledge of Project Management principles (schedule, scrum, task tracking etc)
- Pluses: Loves anime, experience with tools, such as confluence, google suite (docs, sheets etc)
About Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth is a fan-driven, community built entertainment company. From humble origins in a spare bedroom, Rooster Teeth created the web series Red vs. Blue, an innovative form of entertainment for a changing media landscape that sparked the growth of a passionate global fandom. From that foundation, Rooster Teeth pioneered a direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand for its growing online following with subscriptions, advertising, e-commerce, and live events. Rooster Teeth produces several original content series including RWBY, the most popular western-style anime series today, The Rooster Teeth Podcast, and daily video series featuring an in-house cast of influential talent. With broadcast and live-action production capabilities and a world class animation studio, Rooster Teeth engages industry-leading networks, streaming entertainment services and creative talent to develop projects that reach global audiences through its Studios division. Rooster Teeth cultivates the gaming lifestyle it helped define with partnerships through its industry-leading video-first podcast network, The Roost. Rooster Teeth has a massive global footprint of more than 45 million subscribers to its YouTube Network, 5 million unique weekly viewers across its RoosterTeeth.com hub and more than 4 million registered community members. The company was founded in 2003, and is a subsidiary of Otter Media, a WarnerMedia company.