Video Producer - CGI, Gaming & Live Content

Cheil USA/Cheil Studios Video Producer - CGI, Gaming & Live Content Department: Cheil Studios Location: Cheil Dallas, Plano, TX Position Details: Full-time, in-office Reports to Executive Producer / Studio Leadership Role Summary Cheil Studios is seeking a hands-on producer to lead complex CGI, gaming, live-streaming, and studio-based content from brief through delivery. The immediate priority is managing internal teams and external CGI partners for a major video game client, including launch content and a live Twitch broadcast for a new PC game. This producer will own schedules, budgets, scopes, vendor relationships, technical planning, client communication, production execution, and final delivery. The role also supports live video commerce, gaming competitions, social broadcasts, and other live or pre-recorded productions across Twitch, YouTube, and additional social platforms. The right candidate understands how CGI work moves from creative intent through asset preparation, production, review, rendering, finishing, and delivery. They also know how to plan reliable live streams where gameplay, talent, devices, broadcast systems, and platform requirements must work together in real time. What You Will Own

CGI & VFX PRODUCTION

Lead CGI and VFX projects from initial brief through final delivery, working across internal creative teams, production teams, client stakeholders, and external vendors. Translate creative direction into clear scopes, schedules, milestones, technical requirements, review cycles, and delivery plans. Partner with CGI artists and vendors on asset intake, modeling, texturing, lighting, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, color, sound, and versioning workflows. Assess bids, estimates, staffing plans, schedules, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests. Identify risk early and protect the approved scope, budget, timeline, and quality standard. Run organized reviews and consolidate feedback into clear, actionable direction. Track decisions, approvals, versions, and final deliverables. Understand common CGI production constraints, including source asset quality, engine or software compatibility, render time, frame rates, resolutions, aspect ratios, localization, and platform specifications. Build productive vendor relationships while holding partners accountable for communication, quality, timing, and delivery.

LIVE STREAMING, GAMING & ESPORTS

Produce live gaming broadcasts, game-launch streams, competitive gaming events, creator-led programming, and social-first live content. Plan production workflows for PC and device-based gameplay, including game capture, talent feeds, comms, graphics, audio, switching, encoding, moderation, recording, redundancy, and platform delivery. Coordinate with technical directors, broadcast engineers, operators, editors, designers, talent, influencers, moderators, platform partners, and client teams. Lead rehearsals, run-of-show development, cueing plans, technical tests, contingency planning, and live-event execution. Manage Twitch, YouTube, and other social platform requirements. Ensure titles, descriptions, graphics, overlays, calls to action, moderation plans, and archive deliverables are ready before going live. Remain calm during live production. Make clear decisions, escalate issues quickly, and keep the team aligned when plans change.

LIVE VIDEO COMMERCE & STUDIO PRODUCTION

Produce live video commerce programs and related content from concept through reporting, including talent, products, scripts, demonstrations, graphics, offers, platform requirements, and post-event deliverables. Lead pre-recorded video, multi-camera studio, product demonstration, interview, event, and social content productions. Coordinate studio, location, crew, equipment, talent, product, travel, catering, insurance, releases, and other production needs. Partner with studio operations and technical teams to confirm the production approach, equipment plan, staffing, and backup systems.

CLIENT, TEAM & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Act as the primary production contact for assigned projects. Set expectations, communicate status, surface decisions, and keep stakeholders informed. Create and maintain estimates, production schedules, workback plans, scopes of work, purchase orders, vendor agreements, and cost reports in partnership with agency operations and finance. Balance multiple projects and shifting priorities without losing control of details, approvals, or deadlines. Partner with creative, account, strategy, business affairs, legal, security, IT, studio operations, editors, designers, and other production disciplines. Follow client confidentiality, asset-security, licensing, talent, music, usage, and platform-compliance requirements. Close projects cleanly with final asset delivery, documentation, reconciliation, archiving, and lessons learned.

AI-ASSISTED PRODUCTION

Use approved AI tools to support production planning, research, ideation, localization, versioning, content operations, and workflow efficiency. Help evaluate where AI-assisted workflows improve speed or scale while protecting creative quality, client confidentiality, intellectual property, and human review. Work with creative and production teams to define repeatable workflows for high-volume content and versioning. Required Experience 5+ years of producer experience in an agency, production company, game publisher, broadcast environment, content studio, or similar organization. Demonstrated experience producing CGI, VFX, animation, or game-related content with internal and external teams. Demonstrated experience producing live streams or broadcasts for Twitch, YouTube, or similar platforms. Experience with gaming content, gameplay capture, esports, creator programming, product launches, or live digital events. Strong command of pre-production, production, post-production, finishing, delivery, and versioning workflows. Experience managing budgets, vendor bids, schedules, scopes, change orders, approvals, and final reconciliation. Strong client-facing communication and the ability to convert creative and technical discussions into clear next steps. Ability to work in-office in Dallas and support evenings or weekends when production schedules require it. Preferred Experience Experience producing live video commerce, shoppable video, product demonstrations, or social commerce programming. Working knowledge of real-time engines, 3D pipelines, virtual production, motion design, or post-production tools. Familiarity with OBS Studio, vMix, ATEM systems, NDI, SDI, HDMI, RTMP, SRT, game-capture hardware, comms, and cloud or remote contribution workflows. Experience producing content for technology, consumer electronics, gaming, entertainment, or other fast-moving product categories. Experience working with influencers, hosts, professional talent, gaming creators, and platform partners. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud, project-management systems, review tools, spreadsheets, presentation software, and shared production documentation. A bachelor’s degree in film, broadcast production, media, communications, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience will receive full consideration. What Success Looks Like CGI vendors receive clear direction, realistic schedules, complete inputs, and consolidated feedback. Clients understand the plan, current status, risks, decisions, and next steps. Live broadcasts launch on time with tested systems, clear roles, rehearsed talent, and practical backup plans. Projects stay controlled across scope, budget, timeline, quality, security, and delivery requirements. Internal teams view the producer as organized, direct, collaborative, technically credible, and steady under pressure.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This is a full-time, in-office position based in Plano, Texas. The role requires regular collaboration in the studio and production spaces. Evening, weekend, and occasional travel work will occur based on live events, shoots, rehearsals, and client schedules. #J-18808-Ljbffr Cheil USA