Animation Producer for AAA Open-World Games | Equity

Absurd Ventures, LLC; Santa Monica; On-site; PHP 7,320,000 - 7,957,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation time

Sick time

Holidays

Parental leave

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) matching

Bonus eligibility

Equity

Job summary

Absurd Ventures, LLC is seeking an Animation Producer to help organize and drive animation work for a new IP AAA open world game. You will coordinate with Animation, Design, Engineering, Art, and Production to ensure milestones are met and work is clearly defined.

The role requires strong organizational skills, knowledge of animation workflows, and experience supporting a multi-disciplined team in a fast-paced game development environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production experience in the video game industry.
• Experience supporting a game development team through multiple production phases.
• Strong understanding of game development pipelines and dependencies between Animation, Design, Engineering, Art, and other disciplines.
• Experience building and maintaining schedules, tracking deliverables, managing dependencies, and identifying production risks.
• Experience with production tracking and documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt as project needs change.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills across creative and technical disciplines.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach to production challenges.
• Previous production experience supporting an Animation team.
• Experience on AAA/open-world/large-scale 3D game projects.
• Familiarity with character animation pipelines (gameplay animation, locomotion, traversal, cinematics, mocap).
• Experience working with Unreal Engine or teams developing content in Unreal Engine.
• Familiarity with mocap planning, shoots, processing, and implementation workflows.
• Experience coordinating animation dependencies across Design, Engineering, Character Art, Technical Animation, and Cinematics.
• Experience working with external animation vendors or outsourcing partners.
• Experience supporting milestone planning and forecasting on large multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Animation leadership to plan, organize, and track work across milestones.
• Build and maintain production schedules, task breakdowns, and delivery plans for animation features.
• Manage day-to-day animation production with clear priorities, ownership, and hand-offs.
• Track animation work from planning through implementation, review, and completion.
• Coordinate with Animators, Designers, Engineers, and Cinematics to align dependencies.
• Facilitate team meetings, reviews, and planning sessions with captured decisions and action items.
• Identify scheduling risks and blockers and develop solutions with team members.
• Maintain accurate production information in Jira and other tools.
• Ensure animation requirements and deliverables are clearly defined before work begins.
• Coordinate with other Producers to align schedules with broader goals.
• Support milestone planning, status reporting, and forecasting for the Animation team.
• Improve production processes to increase clarity and efficiency while preserving creative iteration.
• Foster clear communication and strong collaboration across Animation and partner disciplines.

Skills

Production planning

Cross‑team communication

Project tracking

Attention to detail

Organization

Adaptability

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Animation knowledge

AAA/open-world experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Unreal Engine

Job description

Absurd Ventures, LLC is seeking an Animation Producer to help organize and drive animation work for a new IP AAA open world game. You will coordinate with Animation, Design, Engineering, Art, and Production to ensure milestones are met and work is clearly defined.

The role requires strong organizational skills, knowledge of animation workflows, and experience supporting a multi-disciplined team in a fast-paced game development environment.