Animation Producer — AAA Open-World

Absurd Ventures, LLC; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation time

Sick time

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) matching

Bonus potential

Equity potential

Job summary

Absurd Ventures, LLC is seeking an Animation Producer to support the development of high-quality character animation for a new IP AAA open world game. You will collaborate with Animation, Design, Engineering, Art, and Production to organize and drive animation work from planning through implementation.

The role emphasizes strong project management, team communication, and proactive problem-solving to ensure milestones are met and dependencies are clearly defined in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production experience in the video game industry.
• Experience supporting a game development team through multiple phases of production.
• Strong understanding of game development pipelines and the 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 effectively as project needs change.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across creative and technical disciplines.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to identifying and resolving production challenges.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and track animation work across project milestones.
• Build and maintain production schedules, task breakdowns, and delivery plans for animation features and content.
• Manage day-to-day animation production, ensuring priorities, ownership, dependencies, hand-offs and next steps are clear to the team.
• Track animation work through development from planning and asset creation through implementation, review, polish, and completion.
• Coordinate with Animators, Designers, Engineers, Technical Animators, and other disciplines to identify and coordinate cross-functional dependencies.
• Facilitate regular team meetings, reviews, planning sessions, and other production rituals, ensuring decisions and action items are captured and followed through.
• Identify scheduling risks, blockers, and production issues early and develop solutions with the appropriate team members.
• Maintain accurate production information in Jira and other project tracking and documentation tools.
• Help ensure animation requirements and deliverables are clearly defined, scoped, and communicated before work begins.
• Coordinate with other Producers to align animation schedules with broader gameplay, cinematic, character, and project goals.
• Support milestone planning, status reporting, and forecasting for the Animation team.
• Improve production processes to increase clarity, predictability, and efficiency while preserving creative iteration.
• Foster clear communication and strong collaboration across Animation and partner disciplines.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Organization

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Absurd Ventures, LLC is seeking an Animation Producer to support the development of high-quality character animation for a new IP AAA open world game. You will collaborate with Animation, Design, Engineering, Art, and Production to organize and drive animation work from planning through implementation.

The role emphasizes strong project management, team communication, and proactive problem-solving to ensure milestones are met and dependencies are clearly defined in a fast-paced environment.