Company: LAIKA Studios

LAIKA STUDIOS looking for a highly organized and experienced VFX Feature Production Manager to oversee the scheduling, progress tracking, and delivery of VFX assets and shots for our feature films. In this leadership role, you’ll partner with creative supervisors, production teams, and cross-department leads to keep projects on track, on budget, and at the highest creative quality. What You’ll Do 📌 Supervise day-to-day VFX production staff and schedules📌 Mentor Production Supervisors, Coordinators & Assistants📌 Manage bids, staffing, quotas, and vendor turnovers📌 Oversee ShotGrid tracking, reporting, and progress analysis📌 Collaborate with CG Supervisors & leads to align aesthetic and scheduling goals📌 Partner with recruiting, finance, and operations on hiring, budgeting & resource management📌 Act as key liaison for Post-Production & Editorial on deliverables What We’re Looking For ✅ 7+ years in production management for feature film VFX✅ Strong knowledge of CG & VFX workflows (live action + stop motion a plus)✅ Advanced ShotGrid expertise & project management skills✅ Strong leadership, mentorship, and communication abilities✅ Calm and effective under pressure with tight deadlines 📍 Location: Hillsboro, OR (On-site)💰 Salary: Commensurate with experience This is an exciting opportunity to lead and grow within a creative, production-driven environment, ensuring world-class VFX delivery for feature films. 👉 Apply now and help bring bold visual storytelling to life- https://www.laika.com/careers/job-listing/?jobid=7185247#form

LAIKA STUDIOS looking for an experienced CG Supervisor to oversee VFX shot production for stop motion feature films. This role is central to realizing the Director’s creative vision by seamlessly enhancing plate photography with 3D assets, effects, and lighting. 🔹 Key Responsibilities Lead all phases of VFX shot production, collaborating closely with the Director and VFX Supervisor Launch, review, and approve digital assets and shots while setting creative/quality benchmarks Supervise crowds, CFX, FX, and lighting across sequences, ensuring tasks are on schedule Provide creative and technical solutions to production challenges Partner with production management on bidding, scheduling, and resource allocation Mentor and guide teams while fostering high-quality workflows and results Contribute to pipeline/tool development and adopt new industry innovations 🔹 Qualifications 10+ years in CG or VFX production (Maya, Houdini, Renderman, Katana) on feature films or TV Deep understanding of VFX pipelines from on-set capture to compositing Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring abilities Experience with Linux/Unix-based systems Ability to translate concept art/storyboards into production-ready CG deliverables 🔹 Why Join? This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in stop motion feature filmmaking while collaborating with passionate storytellers and artists. 💰 Salary: Commensurate with experience📍 Location: On-site, Hillsboro, OR

CG Environment Asset Artis at LAIKA Studios The CG Environment Asset Artist produces highly accurate, photo-realistic, and stylized CG Environment assets for stop motion feature films.   Job Function  Develop CG Environment assets with an emphasis on matching the look of realistic practical assets, while working within the production schedule and meeting established deadlines. Work closely with supervisors and leads to make sure all CG environment assets are up to quality standards to meet the look of show and technical requirements of the pipeline. Ensure accuracy of assigned tasks for publishing and delivering completed CG assets. Maintain CG asset standards for use in VFX throughout production. Work collaboratively to achieve technical and creative solutions for all CG environment assets. Utilize software to create hard surface and organic asset builds. Address revisions in a timely manner with creative and technical solutions.  Qualifications  3+ years’ experience in look development, texture painting, and modeling. Experience with CG asset creation for VFX or animated productions, preferred. Experience and understanding of production look development softwares and pipelines (e.g., Katana, Solaris). Experience with texture software (e.g., Maya, Mari, Renderman, and/or Substance Painter). Strong R&D and lighting skills from both an artistic and technical perspective. Strong aesthetic sense and keen eye for detail. Advanced communication, organizational, and time management skills to balance priorities within a deadline-driven production. Familiarity with shading networks and CG material development. Technical background working with large-scale VFX/animation production pipelines and processes. Experience with Houdini. Substance Designer knowledge, a plus.  Physical Demands and Work Environment The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk; stand; sit; use hands to operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear both in person and by telephone. The employee must lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee works under typical office conditions and is exposed to variable indoor temperatures. The noise level is usually quiet or moderate.   Location On-site in Hillsboro, OR Salary Salary is commensurate with skills and experience.  Disclaimer The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.