GenAI Pipeline TD - Hybrid Studio, Equity

Promise Studios; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Time Off

401(k) matching

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Promise Studios in Los Angeles is seeking a Pipeline Technical Director to manage the studio's production tracking and asset management backbone. You will own data I/O for productions, ingest, transcode, QC, packaging, and delivery to spec, ensuring every asset lands as a clean, versioned, addressable record.

You will collaborate with the pipeline lead and lead technologist, bridging implementation with production needs, and the role offers a path to senior/lead responsibilities as the studio

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering AYON or OpenPype: project setup, anatomy, permissions, and publishing.
• Experience in pipeline TD, data I/O, or production engineering roles at a VFX, animation, or post studio, or on productions where data I/O was yours to run.
• Delivery-spec literacy: codecs, color pipelines, naming, and the discipline of getting it right every time.
• Python for pipeline scripting and comfort with REST APIs.
• A working understanding of how shots, bids, and task assignments move through a production.
• Comfort configuring a pipeline to a studio's own standard, with the understanding that every studio pipeline is its own.
• Los Angeles preferred, with on-site availability.

Responsibilities

• Administer the production backbone across shows: project setup, anatomy and naming conventions, users and permissions, and status workflows.
• Own data I/O for every show: ingest, transcode, QC, packaging, and delivery to client spec, on the dates productions depend on.
• Run and refine the publish workflow artists use to get approved work into the system.
• Keep the production database clean and reconciled: versions, links, and metadata that hold up at delivery.
• Set up new shows in the pipeline, from folder structure and task assignment through handoff to coordinators and artists.
• Support the pipeline lead and the lead technologist on integrations with the DCC and review tools artists use daily.
• Document how the pipeline works so it outlives any one person's memory.

Skills

Python scripting

REST APIs

Pipeline TD experience

Data I/O expertise

Production engineering

Tools

AYON

OpenPype

ftrack

ShotGrid

OpenRV

Nuke

Maya

Resolve

Job description

Promise Studios in Los Angeles is seeking a Pipeline Technical Director to manage the studio's production tracking and asset management backbone. You will own data I/O for productions, ingest, transcode, QC, packaging, and delivery to spec, ensuring every asset lands as a clean, versioned, addressable record.

You will collaborate with the pipeline lead and lead technologist, bridging implementation with production needs, and the role offers a path to senior/lead responsibilities as the studio