Artist Manager

Lytro, Mountain View, CA

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About Lytro

Lytro is revolutionizing high-end content creation for Virtual Reality and Cinema with the world’s first professional Light Field solutions. We are backed by top-tier VCs including Andreessen-Horowitz, Greylock Partners, NEA, and North Bridge Venture Partners and have built a world-class team and dynamic culture driven by innovation and collaboration.

About Lytro Immerge:

Lytro Immerge is the world’s first professional Light Field solution for Virtual Reality. From our novel multi-camera rig/array capture system to our rendering, post production tools, and playback environment, Lytro Immerge provides content creators the ability to achieve lifelike presence through capturing the world in six degrees of freedom (6DoF).

The system captures live action video for virtual reality with true stereo, parallax and realistic lighting offering viewers more freedom of movement, superior image quality, and ultimately a much more immersive experience.

About The Opportunity:

The Artist Manager will manage and inspire Lytro’s growing team of Post-Production Artists and Technical Directors.

Main Responsibilities

Work with the Head of Post-Production and show producers to cast artists to shows and development initiatives, considering each artist’s strengths, weaknesses, burnout, and development ambitions.

Work with the Head of Post-Production to identify medium- and long-term process and pipeline improvements that will make artists’ lives better show over show.

Do (at least) bi-weekly 1:1s with each artist to discuss long-term career development goals, provide feedback, and to write semi-annual performance reviews.

Own the execution and project management of process and pipeline improvements.

Own the execution and project management of product development initiatives in which post-production is involved.

Required Skills & Experience:

Must have 5 years of studio related experience

Experience with managing artists and being a team player

The ability to work with cross functional teams and to help guide and remove roadblocks for the Post Production team

Bonus Points

Experience with managing team sizes of up to 20 people

The ability to both inspire and to also create a strong cohesive and effective team environment

About Lytro

At Lytro, we believe that Light Field will continue to shape the course of Virtual and Augmented Reality, and we’re incredibly proud of the role we’ve been able to play in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We’ve uncovered challenges we never dreamed of and made breakthroughs at a seemingly impossible pace. We’ve had some spectacular successes, and built entire systems that no one thought possible. More importantly, we built a team that was singularly unified in its focus and unrivaled in its dedication. It has been an honor and a pleasure to contribute to the cinema and Virtual Reality communities, but starting today we will not be taking on new productions or providing professional services as we prepare to wind down the company. We’re excited to see what new opportunities the future brings for the Lytro team as we go our separate ways. We would like to thank the various communities that have supported us and hope that our paths will cross in the future. Lytro was founded in 2006 by Executive Chairman Ren Ng, whose Ph.D. research on Light Field imaging won Stanford University’s prize for best thesis in computer science. In late 2015, Lytro announced the world's first Light Field solution for Virtual Reality (VR), Lytro Immerge, that was quickly followed by the 2016 launch of Lytro Cinema, the world's first Light Field capture system for cinematic content. With these products, Lytro pioneered the generational shift from legacy 2D imaging to 3D volumetric video.