Senior Producer

Role Overview

• Leading integrated productions across broadcast, digital, social, experiential, branded content, and emerging media from concept through final delivery.
• Developing production approaches that balance creative ambition with budgets, schedules, resources, and production feasibility.
• Managing production plans, scopes, timelines, staffing, risk assessments, and day-to-day execution across multiple concurrent projects.
• Building, managing, and reconciling production budgets while tracking costs and identifying opportunities to maximize production value and agency profitability.
• Partnering with Creative teams during concept development to provide production expertise, innovative solutions, and executional guidance.
• Collaborating closely with Account teams to manage client expectations, production timelines, deliverables, and communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Working alongside Business Affairs to support talent negotiations, music licensing, union requirements, contracts, and legal approvals as needed.
• Vetting creative ideas to ensure they are executable within project scope, timing, and budget.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with directors, photographers, editors, production companies, post-production partners, VFX vendors, composers, crew, freelancers, and emerging production partners.
• Managing vendor bidding, evaluating proposals, negotiating costs, and assembling the best production teams for each project.
• Presenting production plans, budgets, schedules, and recommendations to internal stakeholders and clients with confidence.
• Staying current on emerging production technologies, AI, VFX, media innovations, and production methodologies to continuously evolve creative capabilities.
• Mentoring junior Producers and Associate Producers while sharing best practices and contributing to a collaborative, solutions-oriented production culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of production experience within an advertising agency or integrated creative environment.
• Proven experience producing integrated campaigns across broadcast, digital, social, branded content, experiential, and emerging media.
• Strong understanding of the creative development process with the ability to influence creative thinking through production expertise.
• Demonstrated experience managing production budgets, estimates, schedules, and vendor negotiations from kickoff through reconciliation.
• Established relationships with best-in-class production partners, including directors, photographers, editors, post-production companies, music partners, production companies, and freelance crews.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional creative, strategy, account, and business affairs teams throughout all phases of production.
• Strong understanding of live action production, post-production, editorial, VFX, animation, music, talent, and emerging production technologies.
• Exceptional project management, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple complex productions simultaneously.
• Proven ability to anticipate production challenges, solve problems proactively, and remain calm under pressure in fast-paced environments.
• Knowledge of AI-enabled production tools, VFX, and innovative production technologies.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace, Slack, and Microsoft Office.
• Experience with SAG-AFTRA, union productions, talent contracts, and music licensing is a plus.
• Automotive production experience is a plus.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off