Animation Production Coordinator - Freelance

Accountabilities:

You will support the day-to-day operational management of the Animation department, ensuring that production information remains accurate, actionable, and easily accessible to the people responsible for delivering the work.

• Maintain accurate Animation Jira tickets, including estimates, statuses, priorities, ownership, and other relevant information.


• Track end-of-day updates and time logging, identifying missing or inconsistent information and following up as needed.


• Keep Animation plans, spreadsheets, and Jira data consistently aligned.


• Identify stale tickets, missing estimates, overdue tasks, and potential capacity gaps.


• Maintain a live overview of team capacity, current assignments, and upcoming work.


• Prepare concise daily and weekly progress reports for Animation and Production leadership.


• Capture actions from meetings and reviews and ensure they are converted into properly tracked tasks.


• Follow up on outstanding decisions and actions to ensure issues are resolved and loops are closed.


• Help coordinate Animation reviews, implementation checks, and subsequent follow-ups.


• Track blockers and dependencies across Design, Code, Tech Animation, VFX, and Production.


• Provide Animation leadership and Production teams with accurate, reliable information to support planning and decision-making.

Requirements

You should have strong experience coordinating work within a game development environment, with excellent organizational skills and a proactive approach to keeping teams aligned. Experience working directly with animation production and project-tracking systems will be particularly valuable.

• 3+ years of experience in the games industry, ideally in Production or another relevant role focused on Animation.


• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and consistent follow-through.


• Solid experience using Jira and other project-tracking tools.


• Comfortable working with schedules, estimates, time data, and production reporting.


• Good understanding of game development pipelines and production workflows.


• Previous Animation Production experience is strongly preferred.


• Confident communicating with animators, designers, programmers, Tech Animation specialists, and Production teams.


• Proactive and comfortable taking ownership beyond purely administrative responsibilities.


• Ability to actively chase information, resolve gaps, and ensure tasks and decisions reach completion.


• Previous experience as an Animator, Animation Lead, or animation mentor is a plus.


• Knowledge of Unreal Engine, Maya, and animation workflows is desirable.

• 5-month freelance contract with an immediate start.


• Fully remote work within a distributed international environment.


• Flexible schedule with core working hours from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM CET.


• Opportunity to work on ambitious game projects using modern and cutting-edge technologies.


• Collaboration with talented professionals from across the global gaming industry.


• Diverse and inclusive working environment.


• Private medical insurance.


• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.


• Sports membership reimbursement.


• Company events.


• Remote office setup support.


• Profit-sharing bonus.


• Generous referral scheme.


• Flexible working hours.

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