Producer - Unannounced Kids & Family CG Series (Disney Television Animation) Job

Producer - Unannounced Kids & Family CG Series (Disney Television Animation)

Job ID: 10113617
Location: Glendale, California, United States
Business: Disney Branded Television
Date posted: Feb. 27, 2025

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

We are looking for a strong and experienced Animation Producer to lead a team on an exciting CG animated series.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following duties:

Scheduling & Budgeting:

• Responsible and accountable for the creation, oversight and management of the schedule, and budget plan with guidance from the Production Executive.
• Generate series budget, subsequent season &/or alternate budget scenarios with the input of Production Executive and Production Finance.
• Accurate budget maintenance and management with regular cost reporting.

Strategy:

• Create and articulate the long-term production strategy that achieves the show’s creative vision within budget.
• Focus on the big picture of the show to balance the competing pressures of a production: creative vision, schedule, staffing needs, and budget.

Staffing:

• Generate staffing plan with guidance from the Production Executive.
• Maintain relationships with Labor, Human Resources, Artist Management & Recruitment to ensure compliance with hiring guidelines and employment policies for staffing and management of assigned productions.
• Partner with cross functional teams to ensure vendors, talent, independent contractors and crew members are accurately contracted.

Leadership:

• Lead the in-house production team(s) while building and maintaining strong relationships with external stakeholders and animation studios, ensuring that creative expectations, budget, and schedule are consistently met.
• Mentor the Line Producer, Associate Producer or Production Manager to ensure their development and growth.
• Manage expectations at the studio, network, external production company, and with the crew.
• Foster a positive culture of teamwork and solution-oriented thinking.

Partnership:

• Partner with the Executive Producers, Directors, and other show leadership to define the creative and production goals of the show and lead the team to achieve those goals.
• Partner with LP or AP to oversee the complexity of the show. Understand asset counts, footage, character density, animation quotas, and other metrics, and how those factors impact the budget.
• Collaborate amongst Creative Leadership, Content & Inclusion, Production teams, Studio and Network Executives to achieve creative and production goals.
• Collaborate with Franchise, PR, Marketing, Programming, and other departments.
• Participate in and/or support creative leadership with Public/Media Relations and public-facing representation.

Problem Solving:

• Approach problems and conflicts with ownership, positivity, curiosity, and a proactive solution-oriented attitude.
• Provide risk assessment and measure production trends against plan.

Technical Skills:

• Ensure all team members are accurately set up on systems to work across production.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum of 8 years of production management experience in CG and series animation including prior experience as a Producer, Line Producer, and/or Production Executive.
• A track record of delivering animated series on-time and on-budget.
• Extensive knowledge of pre-production, production, and post-production methods in traditional and CG mediums.
• Familiarity with animation software, hardware, databases, and asset management systems.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office, with extensive experience in cost reporting and production budgeting.
• Familiar with 700 and 839 union regulations.
• Experience working with 3rd party animation studios, domestically and internationally.
• Ability to travel internationally to visit animation studio partners.
• Experience managing creative leaders and teams in a high-pressure environment while meeting the needs of the production and managing expectations with stakeholders.
• Solution-orientated approach to prioritizing and solving internal and external challenges.
• An experimental, risk-taking mind-set: Must be open to thinking outside of traditional television formats and outside of the traditional linear television model.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills used to interact with a range of personalities across all stakeholders and partnerships.
• A strong work ethic that motivates achievement and improvement of processes and practices for themselves and others.
• Organizational skills and attention to detail that encompass personal time management, delegation of duties and competing priorities and deadlines.
• A passion for children’s programming.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor’s degree in related field.

The hiring range for this position in California is $133,800 to $183,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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