POSITION SUMMARY: We are seeking Technical Directors to join our pioneering team creating animated shorts and specials using experimental, creative-led, GenAI-native production pipelines. Working alongside artists and productions, this role will help support show-specific workflow and technical needs as we aim to develop feature-quality content in a creator-led environment.
What you'll do- Work on productions alongside artists to support show-specific workflow and technical needs.
- Strategize with artists to develop workflows that meet a particular show's creative requirements. Where emerging tools fall short of meeting creative requirements, provide hybrid workflow solutions that integrate established 3D workflows and DCCs.
- Provide critical workflow and tool support to artists. Document and regularly update onboarding and training materials for artists.
- Provide beta test feedback to the engineering org for new internal infrastructure or integration tooling. Provide testing feedback to artists and craft experts on new releases of external tooling. Ensure a stable and current production software environment for the artists
- Working with artist and craft experts, identify model fine-tuning opportunities and data requirements. Create custom fine-tuning for a show utilizing internal and external tooling.
- Proactively monitor artist pain points in daily reviews or dailies and iterate on tools and processes to remove friction.
- Support and troubleshoot the handoff of data between artists and editorial.
- Support the use of Production Tracking systems on a show and ensure it meets the particular needs of a show.
- Evaluate and document the impact of new external tool releases on existing workflows, and communicate recommended adoption plans to artists and leads.
- Identify standardization opportunities for engineering and encourage adoption in a particular show.
- Monitor performance and reliability of compute resources during production and flag or mitigate bottlenecks impacting artist productivity.
- In collaboration with studio engineering and Netflix infrastructure teams, help identify a show's distributed compute and workstation requirements. As needed, develop, deploy, and support last-mile software integration solutions for artists on a particular show.
- As needed, create and deliver final material for a production.
What you need - Working knowledge of both commercial and open source generative and traditional CG tools and workflows (eg ComfyUI).
- Demonstrated ability to stay current with the highly dynamic and changing landscape of tools.
- Ability to synthesize creative requirements from artists and craft experts into practical workflows using both emerging and established tools.
- Familiarity with modern and emerging software development technologies and the ability to rapidly prototype and deploy solutions that meet a show's requirements
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate evolving technical concepts to both artist and production leadership.
- Expertise in maintaining artist working environments that balance rapid deployment of new tools and security requirements.
This job may be covered by a collective bargaining agreement. If so, pay for the position is governed by the currently effective applicable collective bargaining agreement and thus will be no less than $62.74 an hour and up to any better conditions and terms negotiated and obtained as expressly provided therein.
Depending on whether you are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, INK benefits can include medical/dental/vision plans, mental health support, retirement programs, and family-forming benefits, paid leave of absence programs, and paid time away programs to be used for vacation and sick paid time off.
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
