Entry Level Animation Programmer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Purpose
Bring your entertainment recruiting network to Hollywood-and help the next generation of creative professionals build their way into the industry. The Los Angeles Film School is seeking a relationship-driven entertainment recruiter or talent professional who can connect promising students and graduates with studios, production companies, agencies, post-production partners, and other employers across the evolving entertainment marketplace.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities (those that must be performed with or without an ADA Accommodation):
Entertainment Recruiting and Employer Development
• Build, maintain, and expand relationships with entertainment industry recruiters, hiring managers, production executives, department heads, producers, showrunners, creative executives, studio representatives, agencies, management companies, production vendors, and workforce partners.
• Develop relationships with studios, networks, streaming platforms, production companies, post-production facilities, animation and visual-effects companies, game studios, digital media companies, creative agencies, creator-economy organizations, and other entertainment employers.
• Conduct consistent, consultative outreach to understand employers' current and anticipated talent needs.
• Identify entry-level and early-career opportunities, including assistant positions, production roles, internships, apprenticeships, project-based assignments, freelance work, contract opportunities, and other appropriate career pathways.
• Translate employer needs into clear candidate profiles, including required skills, experience, portfolio expectations, availability, workplace readiness, and professional attributes.
• Build employer-specific talent pipelines aligned with LAFS programs, graduate capabilities, and current market demand.
• Re-engage previous employers and industry partners to create recurring hiring relationships rather than one-time transactions.
• Identify opportunities for preferred recruiting relationships, employer showcases, portfolio reviews, hiring events, talent-access programs, and direct recruiting pipelines.
• Maintain relationships with professional associations, guilds, workforce-development organizations, veteran-serving organizations, community partners, and organizations that expand access to entertainment careers.
Talent Matching and Candidate Advocacy
• Partner with Career Advisors and program teams to identify qualified students and graduates for relevant employer opportunities.
• Conduct recruiter-style candidate intake conversations to understand each individual's skills, experience, interests, portfolio, availability, work preferences, and career goals.
• Evaluate candidate readiness against employer requirements and provide clear, respectful, and actionable feedback.
• Develop curated candidate slates and submit qualified candidates with appropriate context and documented authorization.
• Help students and graduates articulate their experience, transferable skills, creative strengths, technical capabilities, and professional value.
• Prepare candidates for employer conversations by providing insight into the organization, opportunity, hiring process, professional expectations, and interview format.
• Coordinate introductions, resume and portfolio submissions, interviews, employer feedback, and follow-up communications.
• Maintain an equitable, job-related, and consistently documented referral process.
• Serve as a supportive candidate advocate while maintaining honesty and credibility with employers regarding candidate qualifications and readiness.
• Ensure students and graduates understand that Career Development provides employment assistance and access to opportunities but cannot promise or guarantee employment.
Career Readiness and Recruiter-Based Coaching
• Provide practical career coaching informed by current entertainment recruiting and hiring practices.
• Support students and graduates with resumes, portfolios, reels, LinkedIn profiles, professional biographies, interview preparation, networking strategies, follow-up communication, and job-search planning.
• Coach candidates on entertainment workplace expectations, including communication, reliability, responsiveness, professional etiquette, confidentiality, collaboration, and reputation management.
• Help candidates understand project-based, freelance, contract, episodic, and production-based employment models.
• Provide realistic guidance regarding entry points, career progression, transferable experience, compensation conversations, and the competitive nature of entertainment hiring.
• Partner with Career Advisors and academic leaders to identify recurring readiness gaps and develop targeted workshops, resources, or interventions.
Industry Programming and Community Engagement
• Recruit entertainment professionals to participate in career panels, workshops, portfolio reviews, employer information sessions, guest presentations, recruiting events, and networking programs.
• Create industry programs that provide students and graduates with authentic access to recruiters, hiring managers, alumni, and working professionals.
• Support employer-facing and student-facing events from initial outreach through execution and follow-up.
• Represent Career Development at Open Houses, graduation ceremonies, screenings, showcases, industry conferences, networking events, employer meetings, and campus programs.
• Develop a positive, welcoming experience for visiting employers and industry partners.
• Maintain ongoing relationships with speakers, panelists, and participating employers after each event.
• Partner with academic departments to evaluate and coordinate appropriate internship and industry-engagement opportunities.
Market Intelligence and Internal Partnership
• Monitor entertainment hiring trends, production activity, emerging job categories, required technical skills, recruiting practices, and workforce changes.
• Share relevant hiring intelligence with Career Development, Education, program leadership, alumni relations, and other internal stakeholders.
• Gather structured employer feedback regarding candidate readiness, portfolios, technical competencies, communication skills, and professional expectations.
• Help translate employer feedback into recommendations that strengthen career preparation and curriculum-to-career alignment.
• Collaborate across departments while maintaining appropriate boundaries between Career Development, Admissions, Education, Marketing, and other institutional functions.
• Contribute to continuous-improvement initiatives that strengthen the student and graduate career experience.
Employment Documentation, Data Integrity, and Compliance
• Maintain accurate and timely records of employer outreach, hiring needs, job leads, candidate referrals, employer feedback, interviews, offers, employment outcomes, and industry engagement.
• Update employer, candidate, opportunity, and placement information in Salesforce and other approved institutional systems.
• Maintain documentation that is clear, consistent, auditable, and sufficient to support institutional, ACCSC, BPPE, and other applicable reporting requirements.
• Follow approved institutional definitions and procedures when documenting whether employment is related to a graduate's program of study or considered employment in the field.
• Obtain and maintain appropriate employment-verification documentation, including relevant employer, position, duties, dates, employment status, and other required information.
• Appropriately document freelance, self-employed, project-based, concurrent, contract, and gig-economy employment in accordance with institutional and regulatory requirements.
• Support ACCSC Graduation and Employment reporting, BPPE Annual Report and School Performance Fact Sheet reporting, internal audits, accreditation reviews, site visits, and third-party employment-verification activities.
• Present employment opportunities, career outcomes, employer relationships, and placement information accurately and without misleading, exaggerated, or unsubstantiated claims.
• Protect confidential student, graduate, employer, and institutional information.
• Obtain and document appropriate student or graduate authorization before sharing resumes, portfolios, contact information, or other personally identifiable information with external employers.
• Use only institutionally approved systems and communication channels when maintaining student and graduate records.
• Escalate uncertain employment classifications, reporting questions, data discrepancies, or compliance concerns to Career Development leadership rather than making unsupported determinations.
Non-Essential Duties & Responsibilities (those that must be performed with or without an ADA Accommodation):

• Other duties as assigned by Manager.

Other Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned by Manager.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Competencies | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience building trusted relationships with hiring managers, recruiters, executives, candidates, clients, or industry partner.
• Working knowledge of entertainment industry hiring practices and career pathways.
• Understanding of film, television, streaming, digital media, production, post-production, or related entertainment sectors.
• Experience sourcing, assessing, presenting, coaching, or preparing candidates for professional opportunities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a natural ability to connect with people from varied professional and personal backgrounds.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and consultative communication skills.
• High emotional intelligence, discretion, credibility, and professional judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of relationships, follow-up activities, projects, and competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate documentation and data integrity.
• Ability to communicate candidly and compassionately when a candidate is not yet ready for a particular opportunity.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across a complex organization.
• Proficiency with CRM, applicant-tracking, recruiting, or relationship-management systems.
• Proficiency with Salesforce, Microsoft Office, presentation tools, and Mac or PC platforms, or the ability to learn these systems quickly.
• Ability to attend occasional evening and weekend events and travel locally within the Los Angeles entertainment community.
• Authentic relationship building
• Employer engagement and business development
• Candidate advocacy
• Professional networking
• Inclusive and equitable talent practices
• Strategic outreach and disciplined follow-through
• Confidentiality and professional judgment
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Student-centered service
• Consultative recruiting
• Talent assessment and candidate matching
• Entertainment industry credibility
• Emotional intelligence and active listening
• Career coaching and candid feedback
• Data accuracy and documentation
• Event facilitation and public representation
• Market awareness and curiosity
• Growth in active, meaningful entertainment employer relationships.
• Expansion of qualified job, internship, apprenticeship, freelance, contract, and early-career opportunities.
• Development of recurring employer partnerships and hiring pipelines.
• Quality and relevance of candidate referrals.
• Responsiveness and satisfaction of employers, students, graduates, and internal partners.
• Timely follow-up with employers and candidates throughout the recruiting process.
• Accurate and complete documentation of employer activity, referrals, employment outcomes, and verification.
• Successful industry panels, recruiting programs, employer events, and networking opportunities.
• Useful employer feedback that strengthens career preparation and student readiness.
• Increased visibility and credibility of LAFS students and graduates in the entertainment marketplace.
• Demonstrated contribution to verified graduate employment outcomes.
• Consistent compliance with institutional policies, FERPA, ACCSC, BPPE, and applicable reporting requirements.

Education | Experience:

• At least five (5) years of professional experience in entertainment recruiting or talent acquisition; creative or production staffing; studio, network, streaming, or production-company recruiting; agency or management-company talent operations; executive search or staffing within entertainment or media; or employer relations, business development, partnerships, or career development.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of professional experience and education.
• Experience recruiting or staffing for film, television, streaming, animation, visual effects, post-production, games, music, digital content, or creative technology.