At Brown Bag Films our motto is simple: “We love animation.” In fact, we love it so much we trademarked it! ‘We Love Animation™.’ That means we put our artists at the heart of everything we do! We are looking someone to join our team who shares our vision and will bring with them a passion for creating high quality content.

Reporting to: Director of Production

Purpose: Why you’re here at Brown Bag Films

To lead the production of the show’s creative vision across all stages of production, by managing the budget, schedule & workflow, facilitating communication between all stakeholders and leading the crew.

Delivery: What you produce

• Delivered shows

• Monthly and Weekly Reports (and/or documentation as requested by Executive leadership)

• Variance and Cost reports (in collaboration with Production Finance)

• Managed solutions for problems arising

• Intentional and sustainable crew resourcing

• New bids (budgets, schedule, assumptions, quotas) as needed.

Measurements: How we measure it

• On budget and on schedule delivery of production

• Successful delivery of the project in line with the creative vision & production assumptions

• Feedback from VP of Production/Director of Production and 360 feedback from Director and Stakeholders & Supervisors

• Team development & sustainability

Key Responsibilities: What you are regularly responsible for doing

• Overseeing all phases of pre-production, production and post-production through the leadership of the production teams, prioritizing tasks, supervising workflow, managing relationships, communication, reporting, forecasting and troubleshooting. Including:

• Ensuring that quotas and production assumptions are adhered to or managing impact of any changes (e.g. overage).
• Participating in all major reviews including, but not limited to, scripts, voice records, designs, animatics, animation and post.

• Brokering deals with all third-party service providers by negotiating optimum price for optimum quality from script writers, VO talent, music composers to audio post-production companies (vendors in collaboration with the Director of Post-Production).

• Controlling the production schedule and budget; managing detailed cost & variance reporting in collaboration with Production Finance.

• Developing and managing strong and trustful relationship with Stakeholders throughout

Production, keeping them aware of any concerns on the project through reporting, forecasting impacts and providing solutions.

• Leading, mentoring and developing the production team under their purview and senior creatives in collaboration with Director & Creative Director:

• Assisting with recruitment to ensure on-time assignment of crews per the schedule.
• Ensuring the facilitation of regular performance reviews for all team members.
• Fostering a productive and positive team environment by bringing a strategic perspective to challenging situations. Collaborating with the Director to create the highest quality production within the constraints of the project budget and schedule.
• Overseeing effective weekly production meetings to optimise clear communication of production deadlines and progress and undertaking weekly reporting to DOP on the status of the production.
• Creating, managing and implementing wrap procedures, mid production analysis and postmortems.
• Managing series credits including, when needed, Stakeholders, legal and executive approvals.

Things that help you do your job (what is essential and what is desirable)

Knowledge:

• Extensive experience in producing at least 3 long-form animation productions from script to screen.

• Comprehensive understanding of production schedule management and animation pipeline and processes.

• Project management principles

• Strong experience in leading teams across all departments

• Strong report creation methods

• Strong financial literacy (Variance report, Cost report, etc)

• Understanding of storytelling and production complexities of various art styles

• Experienced in dealing with oversea partners (desirable)

• Strong knowledge and experience working with WGC, WGA, ACTRA, SIGFA and Canadian funding regulations

• Extensive experience with asset tracking/database systems (eg: Shotgrid)

• Experienced in dealing with different animation formats and working with tight deadlines

Technical Skills:

• Expertise in Microsoft Office, in particular Excel

• Expertise in use of asset tracking software. e.g. Autodesk’s Shotgrid, Excel.

• Applied use of TV production/film budgeting software (Excel, Movie Magic Budgeting)

• Familiarity with Toonboom Harmony

Behaviours (Competencies):

• Proactive forecasting and implementation of action items

• Strong leadership of ideal

• Strong interest in budget/bid creation

• Embody company values both internally and with stakeholders

• Embrace and ensure adherence to studio/production workflow

• Demonstrate ability and willingness to mentor as needed

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Why work with us?

Perks! Perks! Perks! Not only is 9 Story Media Group / Brown Bag Films an amazing place full of artists, animators and creators from all corners of the industry, but we focus on helping staff grow and develop in their careers and make them long time team members. Along with a great work environment we offer first-rate health + dental benefits, summer hours, paid Health and Wellness Days, vacation periods that multiply with tenure, and more! We may love animation, but we love our employees even more!

Our Toronto office can be found in the cool and trendy Liberty Village with over 200 artists working on award winning animated children’s content. You will benefit from a competitive compensation package, interesting work and a fun/supportive work environment.

Applicants need to be legally eligible to work in Canada.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

9 Story Media takes diversity and inclusion seriously and we are committed to ensuring equity in the recruitment process. Candidates from diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, Indigenous peoples, Racialized and LGBT2SQ+ communities, candidates from a range of ages and religious beliefs and people with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. Should you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please let us know your requirements when contacted.

As a company, we deliver high-quality kids' content, and we seek to have diverse characters so that all our audience feels represented. We also want the same for our own workforce, and 9 Story Media is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all identities are represented and respected.