Product Manager, Foundry
Nuke Timeline Tools
Advancing the art and technology of visual experience
Job no longer available
Advancing the art and technology of visual experience
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders around the globe.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of technology management experience or 4+ years of VFX production experience in a technical or artist role
- Degree in VFX, Engineering or Computer Science
- Excellent knowledge of VFX industry technology, in particular colour, data types and file formats, and how these are used across a pipeline
- Experience in working with OCIO, ACES, Camera file formats, Alembic, USD, and other standards
- Good Knowledge of relevant products, Nuke Studio/Hiero user knowledge preferred
- Ability to demonstrate aspects of the product when needed
- Additional knowledge of similar packages, Flame, Resolve, and After Effects a plus
- Proven leadership and project management ability, excellent business judgement, and the ability to develop trusted relationships
- Self-starter with the maturity to work independently with a strong sense of urgency and reputation for producing the highest quality of work
- Curious nature, constantly seeking out new information and skills
- Proven track record as a creative and strategic thinker with the ability to drive to clear decisions
- Ability to balance multiple priorities effectively within a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytic skills and a record of measuring and analysing results
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- Works with other Product Managers, Senior PMs and objective owners to ensure work is aligned with product and strategic objectives
- Owns one or more team objective(s)
- Translate product strategy into features and requirements that add value to existing and potential users, grow market share and improve customer experience across the product line, using appropriate product techniques and frameworks and incorporating a wide range of input from the market and internal stakeholders
- Develop and maintain an expert understanding of the market and production workflows
- Gaining a deep understanding of customer needs, identifying and filling product gaps by generating new ideas and expanding out existing ideas
- Support in prioritising market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by ongoing visits and interactions with customers and prospects
- Uncover urgent customer problems and validate potential solutions
- Document and communicate customer feedback, user needs, and workflows for the product and engineering teams and the wider business
- Act as an Agile product owner on at least 1 Scrum team:
- Act as a subject matter expert for development team and product designers, clearly defining and communicating customer and business objectives, target use cases and additional context to assist the team in successfully delivering the feature roadmap
- Clearly prioritise development efforts using good business judgement; taking into account business and technical objectives and constraints, customer value and urgency, along with quality and user experience requirements
- Own and maintain the team’s product backlog to reflect priority changes and addition of new features
- Attend and be the voice of the customer in all relevant meetings, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives
- In partnership with the Team Lead and Senior QA, understands technical requirements, tracks progress and team efficiency, and removes blocks to successful delivery
- Support the Nuke Senior Product Manager in the creation and maintenance of market and product requirement documentation, business cases and plans, positioning and pricing, initiating new activities as needed
- Facilitate marketing/sales/channel/support training on product line, competitive analysis and related industry news
- When required represent the product management team internally and externally including trade shows, media events, customers and pitching product roadmap to senior management
- Balances multiple priorities with a high level of autonomy and confidently works through areas of high uncertainty and ambiguity
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Foundry's products help tackle complex visualisation challenges in the creative industry, for example to create amazing digital effects or sequences for feature films. As technology advances, the scope of amazing things that can be done with video increases but so does the complexity.
Clients include industry leaders like Pixar, Walt Disney, Google and Mercedes, so their product is clearly up to scratch. The challenge will continuing to advance their product to keep up with new technologies to stay ahead of the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Pension scheme & life assurance
- Health cash plan & medical insurance,
- Season ticket loan
- Company’s social events
- Anniversary day off
- Passion Days
- Flexible working
- Learning & development plans
- Annual Personal Development Time
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Simon Robinson
(Chief Scientist)Began their career at IBM Research in New York. Studied Computer Science at Cambridge. They are the Advisor for the Executive Team at ZeroLight.
Jody Madden
(CEO, not founder)Held COO, CCO and CPO roles at Foundry before becoming the CEO. Previously a senior manager at Lucasfilm and COO at Digital Domain (visual effects).
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