Assistant Manager - Online Edits

Location: Mumbai| Function: BONE | Reports to: Mehul Vohra

Purpose To ensure the highest standards of technical quality, visual consistency, and creative integrity across all final content by managing colour grading, quality control, mastering, and delivery workflows. The role is responsible for translating creative intent into technically accurate, platform-ready masters while maintaining professional post-production and finishing standards across web, broadcast, and theatrical deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

- Perform detailed quality control checks on final projects to identify and resolve technical, visual, and image-quality issues.
- Execute professional colour grading and finishing using DaVinci Resolve Studio, ensuring consistency with the creative vision.
- Manage high-resolution renders, final masters, and deliverables across multiple formats and platforms.
- Prepare technically compliant deliverables for broadcast, digital/web, and theatrical platforms.
- Apply colour management workflows including ACES, RCM, CSTs, camera colour spaces, Log/RAW footage, and colour transforms.
- Monitor and evaluate footage using professional video scopes to ensure accurate exposure, contrast, colour balance, and technical compliance.
- Identify and troubleshoot issues related to image quality, codecs, colour transforms, renders, and mastering.
- Maintain visual consistency across scenes, shots, sequences, and multiple deliverables.
- Demonstrate a strong creative eye for skin tones, exposure, lighting, contrast, depth, colour balance, and cinematic aesthetics.
- Develop and maintain cinematic and narrative-driven colour palettes aligned with the project's creative direction.
- Collaborate closely with Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Creative Leads to understand and execute creative requirements.
- Interpret creative feedback accurately and translate it into effective grading and finishing outcomes.
- Ensure final outputs meet defined technical, creative, quality, and delivery standards before release.

Critical Competencies
- Technical & Post-Production Expertise

- Expert proficiency in DaVinci Resolve Studio and professional colour grading workflows.
- Strong understanding of colour theory, colour science, ACES, RCM, CSTs, and colour management.
- In-depth knowledge of video scopes, Log/RAW formats, camera colour spaces, codecs, rendering, and colour transforms.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end post-production, finishing, mastering, and delivery workflows.

2. Visual & Creative Acumen
- Exceptional visual eye with the ability to identify subtle differences in skin tones, exposure, contrast,



lighting, colour balance, and image quality.
- Strong understanding of cinematic language, visual storytelling, and narrative-driven colour palettes.
- Ability to translate creative intent into a consistent and visually compelling final product.

3. Quality Orientation & Attention to Detail
- High level of precision and attention to detail.
- Solid ownership of final output quality with a zero-compromise approach to visual and technical consistency.
- Ability to identify potential issues proactively and ensure they are resolved before final delivery.

4. Collaboration & Communication
- Ability to work effectively with Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Creative Leads.
- Strong ability to understand, interpret, and implement creative feedback.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to balance creative intent with technical requirements.

5. Problem Solving & Ownership
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills for resolving technical and image-quality challenges.
- Ability to work under deadlines while maintaining high standards of quality.
- Demonstrates accountability, ownership, and consistency throughout the finishing and mastering process.

Why join us?

Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (SPNI) (formerly known as Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited) is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, Japan. A leading media and entertainment conglomerate, SPNI comprises 29 Premium Channels in both SD and HD formats, including leading Hindi General Entertainment Television Channels - Sony Entertainment Television

• Sony SAB and Sony PAL

• Marathi General Entertainment Channel - Sony Marathi

• Bangla General Entertainment Channel - Sony AATH

• Hindi Movie Channels - Sony MAX, Sony MAX 1, Sony MAX 2 and Sony WAH; renowned destination for sports fans - Sony Sports Network comprising Sony Sports Ten 1, Sony Sports Ten 2, Sony Sports Ten 3, Sony Sports Ten 4, Sony Sports Ten 5

• Kids Entertainment Channel - Sony YAY!

• English Movie Channel - Sony PIX

• Factual Entertainment Channel - Sony BBC Earth

• Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channel in the US and Canada – Sony KAL





• Digital entertainment OTT platform - Sony LIV and the independent production venture for original content and IPs for TV and digital media - Studio NEXT. This Network reaches out to over 700 million viewers in India and is available in over 150 countries.

Recognized as an employer of choice within and outside the media industry, SPNI is a recipient of several awards, including India’s Best Companies to Work For 2021 by the Great Place to Work® Institute, India, Exemplars of Inclusion in AVTAR & Seramount’s Most Inclusive Companies Index 2024 and listed as one of the 100 Best Companies for Women in India for eight consecutive years by AVTAR & Seramount. In recognition of the company’s unique workplace culture and exceptional people practices SPNI won the ET Future Skills 2024 for Best Learning Program Supporting Change Transformation Business Strategy, and the TISS LeapVault CLO Awards 2024 for Best Employee Engagement Program and Best Games Based Learning Program.

SPNI is in its 31st year of operations in India. Besides having overseas subsidiaries, it has a subsidiary MSM-Worldwide Factual Media Private Limited, and an affiliate, Bangla Entertainment Private Limited in India.

For more information, log onto www.sonypicturesnetworks.com

Competencies

1. Educational qualification/Certifications2. Relevant corporate exposure3. Relevant understanding of the industry & business4. Career Track Record/Stability5. Functional Competencies6. Takes Initiative/ Energizes others with his/her passion7. Proactively seeks newer and better ways of operating8. Displays " Can Do" energy/ Is resourceful and persistent in overcoming obstacles9. Demonstrates accountability and is decisive in taking prudent risks/ Stretches to take risks that he/she believes in10. Takes responsibility for failures and learns from them/Suggests improvements11. Is comfortable taking hard calls and making decisions for own area12. Empowers the team and supports new ideas and data13. Requires minimal supervision and direction14. Is a strong team player, owns & celebrates success of the team or a team member15. Strives for excellence as an individual and as a team member16. Has good relationship building skills/ interpersonal & communication skills17. Anticipates & proactively drives change18. Challenges status quo & pushes persistently for change, simplification & speed19. Is respected & inspires respect20. Is a willing listener/Frequently leverages others ideas to improve own work area21. Operates with unyielding Integrity22. Collaborates with others in an open and transparent manner23. Does not hesitate to give timely and honest feedback

📌 Assistant Manager - Online Edits (Mumbai)
🏢 Sony Pictures
📍 Mumbai