OUR STORY
For more than 35 years, Bardel Entertainment has been growing and evolving, yet at our core, we remain grounded in the creative roots of the craft of animation. Our pursuit of fresh ideas, techniques, and technologies is driven by the belief that together, through creativity and collaboration, we can accomplish anything! If you want to be part of an environment that empowers you to experiment, learn, and contribute to exciting projects, come and join us.
At Bardel, our people are at the heart of every production. The People Ops Coordinator plays a key role in supporting our artists and production teams by helping manage crew capacity, fostering a positive day-to-day experience, and ensuring smooth people-related processes. This role bridges Production and HR, supporting both operational needs and the overall support of our teams.
Term: Feb 2026 - Feb 2027 (subject to extension)
What You’ll Do:
- Assess upcoming resource needs by reviewing department demand against current crew capacity, identifying gaps, and flagging when hiring requisitions may be required with recruitment.
- Participate in weekly retention and resource meetings, bringing forward challenges, insights, and recommendations to support show and departmental needs.
- Communicate regularly with Production and Artist teams to gather information, review resourcing opportunities to promote support artist retention.
- Support Production teams in the HR management of artists, including tracking compliance, responding to queries, monitoring performance, overseeing time-logging accuracy, coordinating annual reviews, identifying next-show opportunities, and managing contract extensions.
- Manage the crew onboarding/offboarding process, ensuring survey feedback is completed, documented, and shared with relevant stakeholders.
- Anticipate and mitigate people-related issues where possible, escalating concerns to People Ops in a timely manner.
- Conduct regular People Ops auditing including contract details, time off balances, and other employment information to ensure HRIS (Rippling) is accurate and up to date.
- Support the People Ops Lead in employee engagement initiatives and champion the studio’s People & Culture values.
