About this role
*SENIOR EDITOR*
We are looking for a Senior Editor that combines creative, managerial, and technical know-how, participating in and supervising the edit process from storyboard through final delivery and into archive.
Supporting multiple projects and/ or requests at once, the Sr. Editor will collaborate with Production and Technology teams to document, refine and improve editing workflows and processes ongoing.
A member of the WSS leadership team, this role will play a key role as supervisor for various editing staff, conducting regular check-ins, creative and technical support, plus mentorship where needed.
The Sr. Editor will also be responsible for providing regular and pro-active communications on project status, resource needs, and/or recommendations for improvement to executive stakeholders.
*What You Will Do:*
*STUDIO EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT*
· Supervise and support editorial projects and requests.
· Collaborate with Production, Pipeline and Project Producer(s) on implementation of editorial & archiving processes and organization. Amend and maintain on-going an Editorial Department Bible (studio and/ or project specific).
· Pro-actively communicate editorial concerns and/ or recommendations to SVP Production Innovation, Producer to support for more effective work.
· Collaborate with Producer(s) and/ or Director(s) in planning stages and throughout a project?s lifecycle to ensure editorial is set up to meet contractual technical specs and delivery requirements easily.
· Organize video and audio tracks as per WSS production standards; which must in turn be exported and delivered to Animators, 3D artists, composers, sound mixers, and colourists as per individual specs.
· Track and organize all external and internal assets used for easy filing at completion of episode or project.
· Maintain a library of approved general use assets for each project (i.e. music, sound effects, etc.).
· Lead process discussions with editorial team, support and initiate best practices both for studio and on a project specific basis.
· Strategize on proper organization and naming conventions and ensure team are using the correct naming conventions, saving work in accordance with edit workflows and uploading to Flow correctly.
· Ensure all notes are tracked in Flow and addressed by applicable team members.
· Support editorial partner identification (i.e. shared asset libraries, collaborators) and supervise process roll-out to editorial department.
*PEOPLE MANAGEMENT/ LEADERSHIP*
· Act as manager and supervisor to in-house Editor(s) and Assistant Editor(s) - manage priorities, assignments, time-off requests and provide guidance/ mentorship and training as needed.
· Work with Editorial coordinator to plan out tasks and look at any flags.
· Foster a creative, diverse, collaborative, accountable environment that nurtures talent, and encourages giving team members a voice.
· Act as an on-the-floor leader, providing support, guidance and clarity where needed.
· Conduct regular check-ins for those reporting directly, as well as with department heads/ managers for collaboration.
· Run daily team stand-ups with editing department.
*PRE-PRODUCTION/PRODUCTION*
· Creatively collaborate with the Directors/Producers in all areas of pre-production, production in order to lock a final animatic with key poses for animation through final render.
· Edit animatics and voice tracks per the creative vision direction of the Director(s).
· Build audio tracks with SFX/ music.
*RETAKES/POST-PRODUCTION*
· Manage that all incoming rendered content and source material for editorial purposes is well organized and labeled.
· Work with Directors to cut final locked version of the episode for postproduction audio.
· Manage that outputs and asset turnovers are prepared per spec for post-production on schedule.
*OTHER*
· Deliver assignments per the project?s schedule.
· Adhere to and implement all digital file management protocols.
· Fulfill all dut