Artist Manager
CurrentVFX & Digital Production CompanyResponsibilities:• Partner with Department Supervisors to collaborate on artist career development goals and ongoing initiatives.• Participate in long-term planning with Digital Studio team, Producers, and Supervisors to create appropriate staffing and recruiting plans; attends weekly staffing meetings to ensure labor is effectively utilized across all projects.• Forecasts artist labor utilization ensuring appropriate utilization levels are consistently maintained.• Attend bidding meetings with Producers and Supervisors to ensure that the proper staffing breakdowns are created and provide both internal and external candidate options. • Partner with Production Management and Supervisors to anticipate staffing changes and additional resource needs throughout the life of a project.• Meet with Production teams, Supervisors, and artists regularly to ensure consistent communication; serves as a liaison between the artists, Supervisors, and Production to facilitate feedback. • Responsible for career development, performance evaluation, performance management, and talent retention.• Work with the Recruiting team to manage the recruiting process by reviewing incoming reels, facilitating Supervisor and Production reel reviews, leading interviews, collecting feedback, and communicating action items on all candidates. • Maintain strong professional relationships with talent at other facilities in an effort to predict employee availability for current or upcoming projects. • Participate in project post-mortems and ensures areas of improvement for artist management and pipeline development are identified and appropriate action items are assigned and delivered.• Oversee the creation and maintenance of department documentation.• Promote a positive and productive work environment.