Job Description

Job Title: Technical Project Manager

Role: Technical Project Manager, Project Coordinator, or Producer

Status: Full-Time

Location: Los Angeles, or Anywhere (Work From Home)

Job Description:

We are looking for a strong and experienced technical project manager who will work with teams of developers, researchers, and artists to successfully plan, monitor, and execute the development of complex products, technologies, and services.

You will work on projects ranging from AI-driven digital humans, interactive 3D applications. AR/VR system, to virtual production and visual effects. You will work with our internal teams, as well as coordinate tasks with our business development lead and external clients. The role is ideal for individuals who have an engineering/CS background, and experience in game and VFX production environments. The candidate must also be able to work effectively in a fast pace environment with competing resources and priorities. The candidate must have an attention to detail, be highly responsive, and have outstanding problem solving, communication, and writing/presentation skills, and be highly organized, flexible, customer-focused, and knowledgeable about user needs, scoping, planning, execution and delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Create, and maintain project schedules and milestone documentation, monitoring the progress of milestones and specific tasks against those schedules
• Collect user requirements and guide engineering teams to plan and ship large-scale systems
• Hold regular meetings with the project teams and business partners to discuss status, resolve issues and share information
• Make presentation slides and present (kick-off meetings, project updates, company meetings)
• Drive consensus on technical decisions to satisfy requirements
• Unblock teams and allow them to stay true to top priorities
• Use data-driven approach to inform teams' direction
• Manage dependencies across teams and components
• Ensure a common understanding and agreement on project scope and goals and on any subsequent changes
• Identify other teams within Pinscreen with necessary technical knowledge and responsibilities to cultivate relationships in order to drive a project forward
• Work closely with engineering, art, research, and business development team

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience managing technical projects
• Experience leading engineering or operational teams and projects
• Understands hardware/software product life cycle -from creation, launch, to maintaining and operating a live service
• Familiarity with at least one of the following production tools: Slack, Notion, Trello, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Experienced with delivering end to end technical programs through road mapping and reliable execution
• Strong ability to work with various producers, developers, artists
• Experience working with distributed teams and facilitating effective virtual and in-person meetings
• Familiarity with Agile Development methodologies
• Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Multitasking and Ability for fast problem solving in dynamic production environment
• Passion about the quality of your work, interest to work on moonshot projects, with top notch AI researchers, and engineers.
• Extremely strong communication/collaboration skills, very organized, must have an attention to details
• Skills: Microsoft Office, Apple Keynote, Google Docs/Sheet

Pluses:

• Experience with game, VFX, AR/VR production pipelines
• Knowledge in Computer Graphics, Virtual Production, and AI/Machine Learning
• BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• History with leading remote and distributed teams
• Experience working in a matrixed technical organization.
• Experience building and deploying infrastructure solutions on a global scale
• Excellent knowledge of agile and waterfall methodologies

Benefits:

• Exciting challenges with real deliverables and high profile customers
• Great teammates, and the best at what they do
• Deep tech startup with successful track record of generating revenue
• Top of the line technologies, tools, and compute resources
• Employer paid health insurance
• Generous vacation & paid time off
• 401(k)
• Flexible remote working plans (esp during Covid)
• Great office location in West Los Angeles

How to Apply:

• Resume/CV
• List of Managed Projects, Products, Games, and/or Films
• Short List of References

Please email submissions to: jobs@pinscreen.com

If you do not meet all the requirements, but think you have what it takes, shoot us an email!

Pinscreen, Inc.

Pinscreen is an artificial intelligence company based out of Los Angeles founded by UC Berkeley Distinguished Fellow and MIT 35 Under 35 Winner, Hao Li. The startup develops the world's most advanced and photorealistic AI-driven virtual avatars. We provide the full solution for human-like virtual assistants, as well as 3D avatar creation and real-time performance capture. Our goal is to make fully autonomous virtual avatars indistinguishable from real humans, and define the future of human-machine interaction. We are backed by high profile Investors (Lux Capital, Softbank, Cerence) and clients include DARPA, NTT Docomo, and Yahoo! Japan, Amazon, Netflix, etc.

Who we are: We are a team of world-class Graphics/Vision/AI researchers, engineers, game designers, and award-winning VFX artists. Our founder worked at ILM and Weta before, and was behind the reenactment of Paul Walker in Furious 7, as well as the Animoji technology in the Apple’s iPhone X. Our team has developed technologies that have been published at top scientific conferences including ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE CVPR, and our technologies were exhibited at premier events such as SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live!, and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adkjbG7rlZQ

URL: www.pinscreen.com

COVID-19 Hiring Update:

We've transitioned to a work-from-home model and we're continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role can be both a remote position or on-side at our office in Los Angeles. We understand each person's circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible options.

Pinscren, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.