Dubbing Manager

ZOO Digital Group plc. El Segundo/Hybrid Remote Working United States of America Dubbing
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Company Description

WELCOME TO ZOO

ZOO Digital are an award-winning cloud software company with offices in LA, Dubai, London and Sheffield UK. We help the biggest names in global entertainment to reach audiences everywhere with our high-quality localization and media services, adapting original TV and movie content for different languages, regions, and cultures.

Our Mission: To help our clients share their stories, by adapting the world’s most watched TV shows and movies into new formats and languages for international audiences to enjoy.

Our Clients: Major Hollywood studios and streaming services, like Disney, Netflix, NBC Universal, Paramount, Facebook, Sony, and HBO, among others.

Our Services: Dubbing, subtitling and captioning, audio description, metadata localization, artwork localization and media processing.

ZOO Digital’s state of the art technology services are backed by the award-winning bespoke software created by our ever-growing Research & Development team, ZOO Digital Labs. The team create cutting edge software solutions to supercharge our services and make our customers’ lives easier. To find out more, visit https://www.zoodigital.com/

Position

ABOUT THE ROLE

Salary: $28-31/hour

Location: El Segundo, hybrid remote working

We are currently looking for a Dubbing Manager for our very busy Dubbing department in El Segundo, CA. The Dubbing team works closely with our highly talented network of dubbing actors and directors, perfectly pairing local language actors to original characters. The team works with industry-leading partner studios and vendors in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment with plenty of opportunities for professional development.

The role involves supervising, managing and coordinating international dubbing and contact services process from start to finish. The Dubbing Production Managers must have established relationships with dubbing houses worldwide. The successful candidate will serve as the point of contact between studios, internal/external departments, clients, vendors and dubbing studios all over the world. The Dubbing Manager will manage all aspects of the budget, script translation, casting scheduling, dubbing engineers, cast and supplier management through to delivery of final material to client.

Duties and responsibilities will include;

  • Direct and coordinate the activities of the entire process of dubbing.
  • Manage all production functions for the dubbing office/studio ensuring all deliveries are made within deadline and within budget. Continual evaluation of processes to ensure the company remains efficient.
  • Maintain communication with the vendors, clients and internal departments to stay informed with business developments and change and ensure production models and processes are ready to adapt to change, new business and growth.
  • Training and guiding of new colleagues.
  • Participate in regular production meetings to stay up-to-date of any operations needs and changes of the clients.
  • Monitor and manage all costs for dubbing offices, production and overhead costs in order to ensure that expected gross margin targets are met and costs are managed.
  • Ensure the personnel problems are addressed and resolved to minimize costs and prevent operational delays.
  • Perform other reasonable related duties as assigned.

Requirements

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The Dubbing Manager will ideally have a background in broadcasting, localization, or video film production, as well as experience of managing a team in a similar environment.

We are also looking for applicants with the following skills and experience;

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent; or 5+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Qualification in Project Management essential
  • Experience with or interest in film/entertainment is desirable
  • Knowledge of scripting or translation/adaptation and basic knowledge of audio recording
  • Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small groups. Ability to read and understand complex specification documents.
  • Excellent computer skills

Other information

WHY CHOOSE ZOO?

Our technology is constantly evolving, so there’s never a dull moment with ZOO! Our team is made up of creatives, innovators, linguists, and collaborators from all corners of the world, and we employ the brightest and most original thinkers in our industry. Along with a competitive salary, we also offer excellent company benefits, which include;

Unlimited access to over 5,000 courses on Udemy for business

Medical, Dental, Vision

STD, LTD, Life Insurance

401k Plan

Share Save Plan

PTO/Sick Time

Paid Holidays

Membership Discount at Bay Clubs

Stocked Kitchen

We value all the folks that make ZOO a great place to work. For further details on what it’s like to work for us, please visit our company Glassdoor page -https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-ZOO-Digital-Group-EI_IE12459.11,28.htm