Head of Creative Specialist’s Job in West London, London UK
Head of Creative Specialist’s
Location: West London
Salary: Circa £50k + £25k Bonus
Permanent
Permanent with extensive travel around the world
A world leading innovator of visual effects and image processing technologies are currently looking for an experienced Head of Creative Specialist’s to join the team.
It is essential to note that this role reports into the Head of Sales and is therefore primarily focused on revenue generating activities.
This role requires the Head of Creative Specialists to travel extensively around the world.
You must also have extensive experience with NUKE.
Key Responsibilities for the Head of Creative Specialist’s:
· Be the one point of contact for new requests from sales, marketing, and engineering ensuring that requests are vetted, prioritised and assigned to the correct person and broader team activities are coordinated and scheduled accordingly taking into account specific strengths/weaknesses in software/workflow knowledge where possible.
· Be an excellent presenter and speak confidently at opportunities around the world
· Identify, plan and participate in key events including, but not limited to, MasterClasses, trade shows and user groups, to promote my clients brand and its products;
· Ensure the authorized partner channels are largely self sufficient and provide local support when needed;
· Closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to solicit market feedback to understand the needs of potential and existing customers and provide solutions in regards to pipeline and product implementation, with a particular focus on proactively gathering feedback from Sales Managers;
· Ensure that all content for trade-shows/master-classes is created a set-period before the event in question, to allow product managers/marketing to sign off the presentations and ensure that vital equipment requests are signed off as quickly as possible, to ensure that the creative team have all software/hardware required to demo;
Key skills and experience required for the Head of Creative Specialist’s:
· Minimum 2 years of production experience with NUKE is essential
· Strong knowledge of compositing and 3D workflows, techniques, and applications. Ideal but not required: Maya, Houdini, 3ds Max, Mari.
· Minimum 3 years of team leadership with at least 1 year managing a global team with remote locations.
· Strong knowledge of VFX
· The role demands an energetic, proactive ambitious character, capable of challenging the status quo.
· A self-starter with an entrepreneurial flair, an aptitude to get things done and make things happen.