Our Executive Producers play a critical role in transforming the production experience for our clients and their brands. These strategic, business-minded leaders possess a deep understanding of every production touchpoint and are passionate about delivering on our vision.
The Executive Producer acts as a production steward for the brands they manage and the agency teams they support. They champion creative and craft excellence, oversee production execution, and drive growth through strategic leadership. This role demands seasoned production expertise across integrated production, client relationships, and project management.
The Executive Producer is accountable for inspiring and directing their team, ensuring operational excellence, financial efficiency, and the highest levels of creativity, quality, and delivery.
KEY QUALITIES
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Thinks beyond traditional methods, devising innovative, impact-driven solutions that bridge creative ambition with strategic business objectives.
- Integrated Production Expertise: Extensive knowledge of cross-discipline production processes, techniques, and best practices, offering strategic oversight to deliver exceptional work.
- Strategic Craft Execution: Is a problem solver. Combines deep knowledge of production craft with scalable approaches and modernized workflows—ranging from high-touch, bespoke executions to streamlined, efficiency-driven solutions—while upholding the highest creative standards.
- Client Partner: Builds strong, trusted client relationships, serving as a dependable and strategic production partner who opens opportunities through deep understanding and alignment with client needs and goals.
- Leader & Mentor: A proven leader who inspires and guides a team of producers across multiple disciplines and geographies. Cultivating a collaborative and innovative culture that emphasizes excellence and growth. Ensuring right expertise is applied based off client need or individual career development.
- Effective Communicator: Demonstrates outstanding interpersonal skills to align and motivate teams, ensuring seamless collaboration between creative, account, and OP teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Production Leadership:
- Develop annual and long-term production plans with Clients and Business Leads, forecasting workstreams and ensuring appropriate funding and resources.
- Oversee the production of integrated campaigns across multiple platforms, including digital, broadcast, print, content, and experiential.
- Demonstrate versatility and adaptability to lead production efforts across traditional and emerging formats, ensuring alignment with modern creative objectives. Working closely with Business Leads, Creative Directors, and capability specialists.
- Supervise bidding processes, negotiate terms, and help manage vendor relationships to deliver cost-effective and high-quality results.
- Ensure production activities comply with industry standards, legal requirements, and company policies.
- Oversee campaign budgets, timings, and risk management, ensuring the highest standards of craft and quality.
- Studio Partnership & Revenue Generation:
- Leverage internal studios to deliver high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective production solutions tailored to client needs.
- Continuously assess project pipelines to optimize creative opportunities while ensuring financial performance and effective use of internal resources.
- Collaborate with business and creative leads to align production strategies with broader objectives, driving efficiencies that support sustainable revenue flow and long-term growth.
- Client Leadership:
- Act as the primary client contact for all production matters, fostering strong relationships, and ensuring client satisfaction.
- Lead or support challenging conversations with internal and external stakeholders to drive solutions.
- Team Leadership:
- Mentor and support producers, providing guidance on client-specific processes, challenging deliverables, and complex production needs
- Mentor and foster collaborative learning environment for producers. Seeking growth opportunities for team across OP
- Ensures team compliance to OP ways of working.
- Creative Collaboration:
- Serve as the bridge between creative development and production, providing feasibility insights and solutions at key milestones.
- Partner with creative teams to scope projects, structure resources, and support casting needs.
- Attend pre-bids, PPMs, and treatment meetings to align production execution with creative intent.
REQUIREMENTS
- 10+ years of production experience within an agency or brand. 3+ years of that experience should involve managing other producers/ production teams.
- Experience working on SAG union productions/ general understanding of union rules under the commercials contract.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business and professional communications, technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
COMPENSATION
The range for this role is $200K-$250K. Pay is dependent upon many factors ranging from experience, training, transferable skills, and business needs. The pay is subject to change and may be modified in the future.