Insomniac Games

Project Manager

• CONTRACT ROLE
• Lead and coordinate with vision holders to set Cinematic team goals, ensuring successful documentation, tracking, and implementation of cinematics across the game.
• Manage schedules, facilitate communication, and solve challenges within the development process to deliver cohesive gaming experience.
• Build, modify, and maintain schedules for assigned Pods in partnership with Pod Leads.
• Partner with Track and Pod Leads in the creation of milestone goals deliverables
• Anticipate and solve problems independently and collaboratively to ensure smooth production
• Break down large complex production expectations into smaller actionable deliveries
• Guide stakeholder reviews and feedback process with Pod Leads
• Communicates update to the development team about project changes and progress.
• Facilitate cross-discipline communication and unblock team members from task dependencies
• Maintain awareness of Pod content status through regular play sessions

Project Manager, Cinematics

Game Engineer

• Creates animation content at a consistently expert quality level delivered on schedule and meeting performance targets.\n• Works with Animation Directors and Lead Animators to establish animation style and with the gameplay animation team to maintain a cohesive animation style for the game, providing constructive feedback as needed.\n• Mentors, tutors, and aids others based on documented workflows.\n• Ensures Designers and Programmers understand the creative direction and identifies required animation assets for characters and scenes through clear cross-department communication.\n• Provides support for both independent and embedded Co-Dev resources and organizes work for Ex-Dev resources including creating briefs and reviewing and integrating deliveries.\n• Experiments with and evaluates techniques to improve efficiency, workflow, and visual fidelity in our animation pipeline.\n• Assists in establishing and maintaining performance targets and collaborates with other departments to ensure animation is implemented appropriately in the game engine.\n• Assists with creating documentation in Confluence, or equivalent.\n• Assists with tasking in JIRA, or equivalent.\n• Effectively communicates with the Animation Director and Project Management to report progress and ensure timely completion of deliverables.\n• Other duties may be assigned

Project Manager, Cinematics

Senior Gameplay Animator