Job Description

Our client, a VR production company, is seeking a Producer/Director to join the Immersive Content team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide content creation services (planning, design, production, and build) to Fortune 500 enterprise customers subscribed to our immersive learning platform.
• Time spent in this role is split 50/50 between creating CG and live-action content. The role is fairly technical and requires quick adoption of proprietary content authoring tools.
• The role is highly collaborative and requires daily touchpoints with project managers, product managers, data scientists, customer success managers, producers, and instructional designers.
• Content Planning - Prioritize work across multiple concurrent 360 live-action and CG content creation projects
• Set high-level project goals through collaboration with customer and internal team
• Define high-level creative concepts within strict scope, timeline, and budget parameters
• Content Design - Develop production-ready virtual reality design that accounts for:
• Adherence to customer’s complex learning and analytic goals
• Best practices and design principles within the VR medium
• Engagement of the learner audience
• Production feasibility and scope
• Meet tight design deliverable deadlines for outlines, scripts, etc. while committed to quality
• Revise design deliverables through 3-5 rounds of Customer review to lock for Production
• Walk customers back from their out-of-scope ideas by offering more ideal solutions
• Educate non-technical collaborators and put VR tech into layman's terms
• Content Production - Develop capture 360 strategies and pre-pro materials with strong attention to detail: Shotlist, blocking maps, visual effects breakdowns, etc.
• Collaborate with Producers to secure production elements for filming: Scheduling, casting, location scouting, etc
• Provide on-site creative direction for 360 shoots
• Ensure complete capture of all scripted creative
• Ensure clear R&Rs and goals for production crew
• Ensure strong talent performances to satisfaction of on-set customers
• Provide creative direction for voiceover sessions
• Content Build - Provide creative direction to Post-Production artists to polish assets for 360 builds
• Select characters and environment assets from an existing library for CG build
• Provide creative direction to artists to refine CG environment and character assets
• Build the final 360 and CG content using proprietary tools (training to be provided)
• Complete at-minimum three rounds of revisions based on internal and Customer feedback
• Perform several rounds of Quality Assurance testing with multiple reviewers
• Submit product feedback and follow up with engineers to remove software-driven blockers

Musts:

• 1+ years experience creating with HMD virtual reality interactive content
• 5+ years experience working in content creation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working in highly collaborative team environments
• Experience driving content development with internal and external stakeholders
• Patience, resilience, and ability to troubleshoot when facing technical challenges
• Available to travel domestically for 1-3 non-consecutive weeks per quarter
• Ability to coordinate working hours with members of our California-based team
• Comfortable providing creative direction under pressure and can meet deadlines while committing to quality standards. The ideal candidate enjoys collaboration with varied stakeholders and is able to prioritize across overlapping projects in various stages. The ideal candidate is experienced in fast-paced concepting and iteration.