Creator Facilitator

JioStar; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

JioStar is seeking a Production Manager – JAMS to oversee AI-native content productions. You will orchestrate planning, tracking, and delivery across VFX, animation, and post‑production teams and external partners, translating creative concepts into structured production plans.

You will build clear schedules, set up tracking systems, manage vendor workflows, and drive delivery frameworks across active PODs and projects, while aligning with fast‑moving AI‑native workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in production management across VFX/animation/post‑production, film, streaming, digital content, gaming, or adjacent creative technology industries.
• Experience managing schedules, trackers, milestones, and cross‑functional dependencies.
• Experience with production workflow systems, dashboards, and reporting for creative projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day production planning and execution across multiple projects and partners.
• Translate scripts, treatments and visuals into executable production plans.
• Maintain production schedules, milestones, trackers, and delivery timelines.
• Configure and operate production tools and dashboards to surface risks and bottlenecks.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors to ensure timely delivery.

Skills

Production management

Scheduling

Vendor coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Ambiguity management

Ownership

Communication

Tools

ShotGrid/Shotgun

Ftrack

Airtable

Jira

Notion

Monday

Excel/Sheets

Job description

Role Summary

The Production Manager – JAMS will be responsible for managing the planning, tracking, coordination, and delivery discipline of AI-native content productions within the JioStar AI Media Studio (JAMS). This role sits at the intersection of creative production, VFX/animation/post-production management, workflow systems, vendor coordination, and AI-led production execution.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience managing complex creative production environments across VFX, animation, post-production, digital content, or emerging AI-native workflows. You will help JAMS teams move from concept to production-ready output by building clear schedules, tracking systems, reporting mechanisms, vendor workflows, review processes, and delivery frameworks across active PODs and projects.

Key Responsibilities

AI-Native Production Management

• Manage day-to-day production planning and execution across JAMS projects, PODs, creative teams, technical teams, and external partners.
• Translate creative ambition, scripts, treatments, visual references, and technical requirements into executable production plans.
• Coordinate across Creative Technologists, Producers, Narrative and Visual Storytelling Leads, Writers, Editors, VFX/Post teams, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and vendor teams.
• Maintain visibility on project scope, milestones, dependencies, review cycles, vendor readiness, resource needs, and delivery timelines.
• Help teams move from experimentation and prototypes into structured production execution without losing speed or creative flexibility.

Production Planning, Scheduling and Tracking

• Build and maintain production schedules, milestone plans, shot/asset trackers, delivery trackers, review calendars, and status reports.
• Track project progress across concepts, scripts, storyboards, animatics, previs, AI generation, VFX/post, edit, sound, QC, and final delivery stages.
• Monitor scope, bid assumptions, schedule health, team capacity, vendor capacity, resource utilization, and delivery risks.
• Organize dailies, reviews, stand‑ups, planning meetings, retrospectives, and follow‑up actions.
• Surface blockers early and drive clear follow‑through on decisions, priorities, and next steps.

Production Workflow Systems and Reporting

• Own and maintain production workflow systems for JAMS projects, including show trackers, shot/asset trackers, milestone dashboards, review trackers, vendor trackers, and delivery reports.
• Configure and operate production management tools such as ShotGrid/Shotgun, Ftrack, Airtable, Notion, Jira, Monday, Excel/Sheets, or equivalent systems based on production needs.
• Translate creative and technical production workflows into clear tracking structures, statuses, handoffs, owners, timelines, and reporting views.
• Use production data to surface risks, bottlenecks, vendor capacity issues, bid‑vs‑actual movement, schedule drift, and delivery health.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to improve internal JAMS production tools, dashboards, automations, and reporting workflows.

Vendor and Cross‑Functional Coordination

• Support vendor onboarding, capability assessment, production briefing, schedule alignment, delivery tracking, and quality follow‑through.
• Coordinate with external VFX, animation, sound, post‑production, AI tooling, and creative vendors as required by each project.
• Maintain clear communication between internal creative/technical teams and external partners.
• Ensure vendors understand creative intent, technical methodology, asset requirements, review cadence, naming/versioning expectations, and delivery specifications.
• Help build strong production partnerships that improve quality, efficiency, and predictability across JAMS workflows.

Quality, Risk and Delivery Discipline

• Maintain a holistic view of project health across scope, schedules, resources, review cycles, production quality, and final delivery.
• Identify production risks early and elevate them with clear options, trade‑offs, and recommended next steps.
• Support QC and delivery readiness across scripts, visual outputs, edits, VFX/post assets, sound, metadata, and final publishing requirements.
• Drive documentation of learnings, blockers, retrospectives, process improvements, and repeatable production practices.
• Ensure JAMS productions remain organized, accountable, and delivery‑focused while operating in a fast‑evolving AI‑native environment.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in production management across VFX, animation, post‑production, film, streaming, digital content, gaming, virtual production, or adjacent creative technology industries.
• Strong experience managing schedules, trackers, milestones, resources, review cycles, delivery plans, and cross‑functional production dependencies.
• Strong experience managing production workflow systems, trackers, dashboards, schedules, review cycles, and reporting for VFX, animation, post‑production, digital content, or AI‑native production.
• Familiarity with production management tools such as ShotGrid/Shotgun, Ftrack, Airtable, Jira, Notion, Monday, Excel/Sheets, or equivalent systems.
• Experience coordinating with creative teams, production teams, post‑production teams, VFX/animation teams, technology teams, and external vendors.
• Ability to translate creative and technical requirements into practical production plans, schedules, trackers, and reporting structures.
• Strong understanding of production stages such as scripting, storyboarding, animatics, previs, asset creation, AI generation, edit, VFX/post, sound, QC, and delivery.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, organization, documentation, and follow‑through skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, evolving scope, changing priorities, and fast‑moving production timelines.
• High ownership, learning agility, and comfort operating in an AI‑native production environment.

Good to Have

• Experience working with VFX or animation vendors, bid tracking, bid‑vs‑actual reporting, vendor capacity planning, or shot/asset delivery workflows.
• Exposure to AI‑assisted production tools, GenAI content workflows, virtual production, real‑time workflows, or emerging media production technologies.
• Experience partnering with product or engineering teams to build or improve production tools, dashboards, automations, or workflow systems.
• Experience supporting multiple shows, films, series, promos, digital‑first content, or short‑form productions simultaneously.
• Familiarity with creative production pipelines across writing, visual development, CG/3D, compositing, sound, edit, and post‑production.