Houdini Technical Consultant

SideFX • Toronto, ON

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re on the hunt for an exceptional human to join our Technical Consulting Team, working closely with the Technical Consulting Manager. As a Houdini Technical Consultant, you’ll be building smart workflows and crafting tools that empower artists to create amazing procedural content with Houdini. Your work helps unlock creativity at scale. You’re a natural Houdini advocate- someone who can clearly communicate what makes it powerful and why it matters. With solid, well-rounded industry experience, you’re comfortable jumping into problems on the fly and figuring things out. You listen closely, understand what artists are trying to achieve, and help them get there. You enjoy sharing what you know, whether that’s through live demos, presentations, or online content. You’re just as comfortable speaking to a room as you are connecting one-on-one. As we continue to grow across the games industry worldwide, you’ll play a key role in supporting and inspiring a global community of artists using our tools. You’ll also collaborate with teams across R&D, Sales, and Marketing. And yes- there’s some travel in the mix, sometimes international, whether it’s visiting studios, delivering a workshop, or showing up at industry events.

Requirements

• Spent 5+ years in film, tv or games industry and know the space inside and out.
• Comfortable navigating modern 3D pipelines and understand how everything fits together in game development.
• Experience working as a character animator in production.
• People person—great at building connections, whether face-to-face or online.
• Presenting comes naturally. Can create compelling Houdini content and share it with confidence.
• Genuinely love procedural workflows and tools—and are excited to spread that enthusiasm.
• Communicate clearly and effectively, both in writing and in conversation.
• Think beyond the surface—approaching business, product, and technical challenges with a strategic, analytical mindset.
• Self-driven and comfortable working remotely, even when operating with a high degree of independence.
• Understand the business side of development and can speak to the real-world challenges studios face in a constantly evolving industry.
• Flexible with your schedule and open to collaborating across time zones, including EST and PST when needed.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in a field relating to Computer Graphics, Animation, VFX or equivalent experience/education.
• Experience as a Technical Director at a VFX or animation studio.
• Experience creating learning materials or teaching production software.

Responsibilities

• Learn existing tools and workflows in Houdini.
• Communicate with customers both in person and on-line in meetings, webinars, live streams, and the like.
• Explore and prototype workflows and share the results with our R&D team.
• Identify, develop, test, document and deploy tools and workflows that solve real production problems for our customer.
• Support our Sales Team as needed by providing specialized knowledge to further relationships with both prospective and existing customers.
• Take an active role in growing sales by identifying and developing opportunities at both new and existing studios for SideFX technology.
• Report on industry trends and relay customer feedback to internal teams as appropriate.
• Keep track of your interactions and make notes available to others at SideFX.
• Be a champion of our company and represent SideFX to the larger CG community.
• Participate as needed in public channels where Houdini tools are discussed.
• Occasionally create demo content to be shown at various trade shows and Houdini related events.
• From time to time conduct training for customers.
• Collaborate on materials to assist sales team in communicating with customers.
• Work closely with our Marketing, R&D, Finance and Education departments.
• Build strong customer relationships, expecting to travel about once per month, sometimes internationally, whether to visit customers or events such as conferences, trade shows, user groups and the like.
• Planting seeds for business development and future growth.
• Develop a number of relationship and insights into our customers and will be expected to maintain our CRM (Customer Relationship Management system) with key contacts and other relevant shared information.
• Other duties as appropriately assigned.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work option - Combining time spent collaborating in person at our offices with remote work for added flexibility.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation and floater days to relax and re-energize (starting at 4 weeks).
• Year-End Company Shutdown and Long Weekend Early departures to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Health insurance coverage: Robust Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP); because sometimes we need a bit of extra support.
• Retirement Plan with company matched contributions.
• Comprehensive Long Service Award program, providing both a monetary reward and additional days off.
• A highly competitive bonus structure.
• A generous sick time entitlement to care for yourself and your loved ones.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree