Netflix
Head of Cinematography, Layout- Ink
Los Angeles,California,United States of America
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
PythonLLMsMayaLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingTime ManagementMentoring
About the role
- This role oversees the cinematic vision and visual storytelling, collaborating closely with creative leadership to realize the Director's vision.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Director(s) and creative leadership to architect, define, and execute the show's camera language (lenses, positions, movement) and visual style (staging, composition).
- Partner with production leadership to forecast pipeline needs and mitigate bottlenecks before they impact delivery.
- Build and champion necessary workflows, templates, and scripts; actively document crew learnings and best practices to scale future capabilities.
- Foster and lead a high-performance, exploratory team culture that thrives on collaboration and creative experimentation.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years experience in film, TV or games industry
- Minimum 4 years experience in a leadership or supervisory role for film, TV or games
- Solid knowledge of Previs, Camera, and CG shot production and its iterative process
- Layout and previsualization production experience on feature films, shorts or series
- Advanced working knowledge of CG software tools such as Autodesk Maya, Houdini or Nuke
- Experience in working and adhering to production budgets and timelines
- Strong and proven leadership, communication and problem-solving skills
- A scrappy, builder's mindset with a high degree of independence, out-of-the-box application, and initiative as production support and workflows evolve alongside the creative process.
- Demonstrated experience working in ambiguous environments where the core production pipeline is being built and rapidly iterated upon
- Ability to provide upward, constructive feedback to leadership for improved scalability.
Nice to have
- Understanding of Python and/or MEL scripting a plus
- Understanding and knowledge of GenAI native tools a plus
Company info
- We are seeking a Head of Cinematography, Layout to join our pioneering team to create animated content using experimental GenAI-native production pipelines, with the goal of producing feature-quality content.
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