
Lead Lighting Artist at One Of Us. The Lead Lighting Artist is responsible for overseeing the lighting team’s output across a show or sequence. This includes task planning, technical guidance, and hands-on shot work where needed. The Lead plays a key role in problem-solving and ensuring final renders meet both visual and technical expectations.. Duties:. . Team Management: Guide day to day work of lighting team.Assign and review lighting tasks, ensuring quality and schedule alignment. Act as the go-to contact for lighting team progress and troubleshooting. Balancing hands-on work with oversight responsibilities. . Team mentorship: Foster a supportive, productive, and communicative team culture. Coaching and providing feedback and development opportunities. . Quality Control: Review renders to maintain consistency, mood, and technical soundness. Ensure final lighting renders are consistent, comp-ready, and creatively aligned.. . Hero Work: Deliver or lookdev key shots to establish lighting benchmarks.. . Cross-Department Liaison: Work with comp, FX, and layout to ensure proper Pipeline. . . Oversight: Support the move from SOPs to LOPs and align with rendering tools.. . Problem Solving: Resolve render, scene, or data issues blocking final delivery. Identify and solve technical lighting challenges to keep shots moving.. . Planning: Coordinate with production on task tracking and resource forecasting.. . Feedback: Respond to notes from leads and supervisors quickly and effectively. Be open to feedback and work iteratively to reach final quality.. . Communication: Keep the team updated on progress and flag blockers early.. . Skills, attributes and experience:. . Deep experience lighting in Houdini using Arnold (SOP-based and USD-aware).. . Strong understanding of light, mood, colour, and cinematic realism.. . Skilled at troubleshooting and mentoring within a fast-paced production environment.. . Comfortable coordinating across departments and working with production.. . Familiarity with USD/LOPs workflows and transitioning practices.. . Experience with Karma or multi-render workflows.. . Tool spec or scripting experience to improve team efficiency.. . 7+ years in VFX or a related field. . Strong leadership skills, ability to inspire, share a clear vision and get the best out of everyone. . Excellent communicator, sharing information clearly and actively listening . . Strong time management, ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and escalate delays in a timely manner.. . Adaptable to change with the ability to stay focused and maintain a positive attitude.. . Driven to make things better with flexibility to change course when needed.. . Positive energy, focusing on results and having a positive impact on those around you.. . Self awareness and an ability to resolve and diffuse problems treating others with kindness and respect.. . Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work well with others. . Company Location: India.