Talent Manager

About ILM

Founded by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, with studios located in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Sydney and now, Mumbai. ILM has created visual effects for over 325 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time and has contributed to 25 of the top 50. ILM has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, the company continues to break new ground in visual effects, VR, AR, and Immersive Cinema. You can see some of our current projects here.

Your role?

The Talent Manager creates a positive and supportive environment for the artist and production teams at ILM Sydney by building meaningful relationships with the teams they manage, as well as the show leadership teams. You will closely with project leadership in order to schedule and manage crew with an overarching focus on the long term growth of artists through performance feedback and career development, so our artists continue in the long term to grow and develop.  

What will you be doing?

• Create a collaborative and supportive environment for the all artists to excel, with an open-door policy to encourage positive communication between you and the artists you manage

• Work closely with show leadership to ensure projects have the right teams assigned, taking into account both the project needs and the career development of the artists

• Assess any capacity and utilisation challenges across your artist and production teams and proactively problem solve any issues, keeping all the relevant information up to date and accurate within our resource planning systems

• Evaluate and learn individual artist strengths; helping to develop cross utilisation of teams to promote an effective workflow

• Work with supervisors, production, training and other talent managers to develop training plans for upcoming show needs and ongoing departmental talent development

• Create a positive and constructive feedback environment for your artists with the goal in helping artists grow and meet their long term career goals, as well as continuing to improve their performance

• Manage your team's yearly merit increases

• Working with the talent coordinators, manage time off requests and other ad-hoc administration duties

• Identify recruitment requirements for your teams, partnering with recruiters in finding and hiring the best talent, with a continued focus on creating a diverse team

• Manage locally, but think globally - working collaboratively with all ILM studios to maximise crew utilisation

 To be a contributing member of this team, you will have a mix of these skills:

• You have a genuine passion for management, and the ability to create an environment conducive for all team members to excel

• You have the ability to provide both positive and constructive feedback, and don’t hesitate to have difficult conversations

• Your scheduling and problem solving skills are proven, and your VFX knowledge is sound

• You have a roll the sleeves up attitude, happy to take on a variety of responsibilities all contributing to the end goal of a positive team environment

• People feel comfortable talking to you and sharing their challenges and their successes

• You lead by example

• You have an instinct for creating teams, an eye for spotting talent and a passion for diversity and team culture

• A Bachelor degree in arts, communications, psychology or business and/or related experience working in a creative and collaborative environment

At Lucasfilm/ILM we believe that diversity, inclusion and belonging are integral to our company. We are at our best when our people at all levels reflect the vast life experiences of our audiences, and we thrive when ideas and decisions from all are valued and represented. If you are passionate about the role, but don't fit every criteria of the posting, we encourage you to still apply. We want to hear your story.