The Role
We are looking for an organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Post Production Operations Coordinator to join our busy in house Post Production operations team.
In this role, you will be the connective tissue between our creative production teams, editors, sound designers, and external partners. You will play a pivotal part in keeping our post production pipelines moving smoothly, ensuring our high quality animated and live action content is delivered on time, on budget and to the highest technical standards.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced coordinator who thrives in a fast paced environment, loves solving logistical puzzles and wants to have a tangible impact on content enjoyed by millions of children daily.
Location: This role reports onsite in our London office.
Benefits include Free Private Healthcare, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave, matched 5% pension scheme, free yoga/fitness wellbeing classes, free weekly lunch and Friday
Responsibilities
- Workflow Coordination: Assist in managing the day to day post production pipeline for multiple digital and linear properties, tracking assets from ingest to final delivery.
- Scheduling: Create, update, and maintain detailed post production schedules, ensuring creative teams, editors, and audio engineers are aligned on upcoming milestones.
- Asset Management: Oversee the organization, archiving, and transfer of master files, project files, and localized audio/video assets across our internal servers and cloud storage platforms.
- Quality Control (QC): Coordinate the QC process for final deliverables, ensuring all video, audio, and metadata meet platform specific technical specifications and Moonbug's high standards.
- Localization Pipeline: Support the localization process by tracking dubbing assets, scripts, and localized audio files across various language versions.
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Act as a central point of contact, communicating project updates clearly to Producers, Directors, Channel Managers, and external vendors.
- Purchase Orders & Invoicing: Manage post production purchase orders, track vendor invoices, and assist in monitoring project budgets.
Key Responsibilities
- Pipeline Management: Coordinate post production workflows with production, creative, and QC teams to meet daily goals and deadlines, ensuring assets are processed on time.
- Asset & Vendor Coordination: Liaise with post production staff and third party vendors to manage and supply all necessary audio and video assets for editing and delivery.
- Final Delivery & Mastering: Perform video mastering and exporting for final delivery. Configure delivery assets, set technical specifications in Moonbase, and confirm strict adherence to formatting and naming standards pre ingest.
- Quality Control (QC) & Validation: Conduct PreEQC & AQC validation using tools like Vidchecker. Work directly with the QC Department to resolve failed content and review Assistant logs for accuracy.
- Tracking, Reporting & Escalation: Monitor post timelines using Moonbase Planner, proactively track progress, and escalate immediate delays or post production issues to the Supervisor for resolution. Develop trackers, manage status dashboards, and prepare data for weekly reports.
- Data & Administration: Perform asset and metadata delivery, update internal library software, and input data based on IP structure and naming conventions, ensuring all fields are complete. Manage administrative tasks, including purchase orders (POs), script orders, and invoices.
- Standards Enforcement: Review document formatting and rights management protocols, rejecting any assets that do not meet required specifications.
- Team Support: Foster teamwork
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven background in video editing and post production, with strong proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Encoder.
- Solid knowledge of the production process and a strong grasp of Brand/IP concepts to identify potential creative errors.
- Exceptional organizational, file management, and multitasking skills, with the ability to thrive in a fast paced environment.
- Power user of relevant production and project management tools, including Google Drive, Frame.io, Vidchecker, Airtable/Monday, Lucidlink, and Jira.
- Demonstrates close attention to detail, specifically with a "completer finisher" attitude.
- Knowledge of technical specifications for visual and audio deliverables and how they fulfil the needs of supporting departments such as YouTube platforms, localisation, and Distribution.