Animation Production Manager (3D Animation)

Location: On-site in Austin, Texas. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Relocation assistance is available for candidates coming from outside Austin.

Company

A YouTube entertainment company producing light-hearted narrative content for general audiences, including animated projects based on the Aphmau universe.

What you will do

• Lead the Animation Department through daily direction, mentorship, feedback, performance management, and team development.
• Manage animation workflows from pre-production through post-production handoff across multiple concurrent productions.
• Coordinate animation milestones, capacity, dependencies, risks, staffing, and resource needs with production leadership.
• Guide visual storytelling through feedback on performance, staging, composition, camera, pacing, continuity, layout, and scene preparation.
• Maintain production tracking, file management, naming conventions, version control, departmental handoffs, and final camera and QC processes.
• Improve animation pipelines and standards while coordinating with creative, technical, editorial, production, and external vendor teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional animation production experience and 2+ years managing or supervising animation teams.
• Strong understanding of the full 3D animation pipeline, including pre-production, layout, animation, camera, QC, and post-production delivery.
• Experience managing workflows, resources, priorities, and deliverables across multiple productions.
• Strong leadership, communication, organizational, creative problem-solving, and visual storytelling skills.
• Working knowledge of Autodesk Maya, Adobe Creative Suite, and production tracking, file management, and version control tools such as Monday, ShotGrid, Perforce, or Dropbox.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States and availability for on-site work in Austin, Texas.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with DaVinci Resolve or similar post-production tools.
• Experience with Minecraft animation tools such as Blockbuster.
• Bachelor’s degree in Animation, Computer Animation, Production, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health benefits.
• 401(k) contribution and flexible time off.
• Lunch, snacks, and drinks provided in the office.
• On-site fitness center and learning stipend.
• Monthly office pet days and relocation assistance for candidates coming from outside Austin.