Director of Studio Operations (Audio Localization)

Location: Burbank, United States of America

Salary: $140,000–$155,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides dubbing, audio localization, and media production services through studio operations and global production teams.

What you will do

• Lead multidisciplinary studio production teams covering production coordination, audio engineering, and production management, ensuring on-time delivery that meets quality and client requirements.
• Plan workloads, staffing, facilities, equipment, capacity, deadlines, and other production resources.
• Set priorities for direct reports and provide coaching, feedback, mentorship, and performance support.
• Monitor workflows and operational performance, identify bottlenecks and risks, and implement improvements to efficiency, consistency, and service quality.
• Partner with Sales, Client Services, Production, Finance, Human Resources, engineering leaders, global studios, and vendors on production planning, staffing, technical readiness, pricing, and delivery.
• Build operating budgets and forecasts, monitor costs and margins, evaluate financial performance, and recommend pricing, workflow, and resourcing adjustments.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in studio operations, dubbing, audio post-production, media localization, or a closely related entertainment production environment.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary production teams and coordinating production managers, coordinators, engineers, facilities, and external vendors.
• Strong understanding of dubbing and audio localization workflows, including voiceover and lip-sync dubbing, editing, mixing, and delivery requirements.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines, production capacity, resource allocation, and changing client requirements.
• Experience evaluating workflows, resolving operational issues, and implementing process improvements.
• Budget awareness and experience monitoring costs, vendor spend, and resource utilization.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, coaching, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate across functions, locations, and time zones in a global organization.
• Experience preparing or evaluating client estimates, service pricing, operating budgets, forecasts, and financial performance measures, with the ability to interpret cost and margin data and apply it to pricing, resourcing, and operations.

Nice to have

• Experience in a multi-studio or international media localization organization.
• Experience with production planning, resource-management tools, workflow optimization, or operational reporting.
• Established relationships with audio production or localization vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration across global studios, functions, locations, and time zones.
• Responsibility for maintaining quality, delivery standards, operational efficiency, and profitability.
• Coordination with external vendors and global stakeholders to align local production with company strategy.