Lutheran Church of the Resurrection

Jellyfish Pictures Summary  

Founded in 2001, Jellyfish Pictures has grown from the original “two-man band” into an award winning internationally recognised operation with over 300 employees working globally, with headquarters based in London.   

Since the launch of Jellyfish Animation in 2014, Jellyfish has produced high-quality CG animation for feature films Spirit Untamed, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (DreamWorks Animation), top-rated children’s shows, Dennis and Gnasher: Unleashed (CBBC), Floogals (Universal Kids) and Bitz & Bob (Cbeebies) and most recently, has embarked on developing and producing its own original animated children’s content.   

VFX credits include blockbuster movies such as Lucas Films’ Star Wars series Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Last Jedi and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; TV Dramas including Amazon Prime’s Hanna Season 2 HBO’s Watchmen, Netflix’s The Innocents and Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation and TV Documentaries such as Planet Dinosaur and Inside the Human Body.  

Job Summary 

As a Senior Producer you are responsible for ensuring the show deliveries on time, on budget whilst working in close partnership with the Director and Supervisors of the show to deliver to the client expectations.

Reports to 

Head of Production 

Requirements

Key Responsibilities 

• Responsible for maintaining the overall schedule and budget of the show in alignment with the overall production strategy.
• Department scheduling.
• Set up templates, reporting, and define processes and communication required for the team.
• Recruit and train a production team to support required production processes.
• Build strong client relationships and provide options and solutions to any production challenges.
• Foresee issues and mitigate risks, making recommendations to address challenges to ensure the show remains on schedule and budget.
• Ensure the production team are managed artists to hit quotas and deadlines, flagging to Producers if issues may cause delays to overall schedule / strategy.  
• Present accurate reports including (but not limited to): quota achieved per week,  8-week projection, left to do reports.  
• Working with co-ordinators to ensure smooth feedback and approval reporting.  
• Run weekly production meetings. 
• Work as part of the whole Jellyfish Production team to support each other to deliver shows, manage crewing and cast artists appropriately.
• Work with the talent team to ensure crew requirements are understood and guidance is given around guidance.
• Approval of team holidays.  
• Approval of freelancer invoices.  
• Awareness of the teams needs and Company HR policies.  
• Collaborate with Crew Managers/HR regarding crew performance and flag if any issues.  

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties.  The need for flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee’s skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

Experience/Requirements 

• Proven ability to manage high revenue budgets.  
• Previous series animation experience.
• Knowledge of Shotgun.  
• Awareness of key project assumptions, budget, and schedule across the animation department.  
• Problem solving day to day issues as they arise with the Director and team leads.  
• Highly organised with first-class time/project management skills  
• Confident client and crew management skills  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills   

Personal Qualities:  

Strong communication skills are critical. Must be able to work within a team, taking direction and exercising attention to detail in a fast-paced production environment 

Note: 

Thank you for taking the time to apply to Jellyfish. Due to the high number of applications, we receive, we are unfortunately unable to respond to each candidate unless you have been shortlisted for a specific position. Your portfolio and contact details have been submitted to our database and we’ll be happy to reach out to you when an opening comes up that matches your skill set and experience. 

Our careers section offers a range of other roles, which may be more suitable to your talents and creativity. We encourage you to look at them. Should you find that the roles available are not suitable, we have a general speculative application form, which when completed allows us to retain your details and get in touch as soon as the relevant role becomes available! 

Benefits

At Jellyfish we offer to our PAYE staff holiday pay, sick pay, pension contribution. In addition, you will have access to an advanced benefit package which includes a cycle to work scheme, exclusive perks and much more! 
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection