Senior Dubbing Manager

ZOO Digital Group plc. El Segundo 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 Sheffield, London, LA, and Dubai. 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 range: Up to $120,000

Location: El Segundo, CA/hybrid remote working

Due to continued expansion, ZOO Digital is currently seeking a Senior Dubbing Manager to manage our highly talented Dubbing team. 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 Senior Dubbing Manager will manage a team of Dubbing Managers and Dubbing Coordinators, ensuring all projects are delivered to the highest quality, on time and to budget. This is a fast-paced role that involves a lot of creative problem solving, strong communication and leadership skills.

Day to day responsibilities will include;

  • Managing, coaching, mentoring, and developing staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
  • Overseeing multiple large-scale dubbing projects across a wide range of vendors, partners and languages.
  • Establishing dubbing schedules and managing deliveries to ensure successful global launches
  • Ensuring all systems are kept up to date and projects are followed through up until invoicing
  • Identifying and managing project risk through prioritization and troubleshooting, escalating any issues where necessary
  • Supporting and leading innovation initiatives that develop dubbing operational and cost efficiencies
  • Ensuring direct reports are meeting deadlines and helping them organize and prioritize their work and their designated responsibilities.

Requirements

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for experienced team Managers who thrive working on a multitude of projects, ensuring that all requirements and deadlines are met. The successful Senior Dubbing Manager will ideally have a background within dubbing, audio production, advertising, or localization, and must have an understanding of the recording process.

The Senior Dubbing Manager must be an excellent people manager who is used to handling conflicting priorities whilst managing, coaching, mentoring and developing staff. A commitment to continuous improvement is essential, as is innovative thinking around scalable solutions and operational workflows.

We would also like to hear from applicants with the following experience;

  • Managing a team in a similar environment.
  • Project Management
  • Experience in broadcasting, localization, or video film production
  • Knowledge of scripting or translation/adaptation and basic knowledge of audio recording desirable
  • Prior experience experience managing localisation workflows, preferably within dubbing although this is not essential
  • Highly analytical and able to get to the root cause of a problem

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

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