Creative Production Manager

A seasoned Creative Production Manager with an astute eye for detail
YOU: You are a seasoned Creative Production Manager with an astute eye for detail. Confident in making decisions as well as collaborating with and leading teams across a variety of skillsets. You support the creative and strategy teams in delivering exceptional work for clients.
THEM: They are a New York-based creative studio for brands at a crossroads. They put startups on the map, help established players find new fans, and create stories that make people want to do things differently.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and maintain creative development and production schedules to optimize resources, ensure quality, and deliver on time
- Provide the daily workflow management that keeps teams productive, engaged, and focused on their best possible contributions
- Coordinate communication with external creative partners such as illustrators, typographers, motion artists, and UX designers
- Manage agency budgets for assigned accounts
- Plan and coordinate still and video shoots which may include still-life, on-figure studio, and on-location, often in collaboration with additional external producers
- Partner with the creative team, shoot partners, and external line producers to drive pre-production, post-production, and asset delivery
- Block and plan production budgets
- Communicate with cross-functional client stakeholders at a range of seniority levels, from marketing executives to accounting assistants
- Manage information flows between agency and client as appropriate
- Facilitate client/agency alignment and strong, collaborative relationships
- Consult on the scoping of new business as appropriate
REQUIREMENTS:
- Phenomenal project management, decision making and problem solving skills
- Effectively balances the needs of the team, the client and the business with agility
- Enthusiasm for design culture and design thinking with understanding of brands and brand strategy
- Experience working within and managing creative team
- Experience with producing still and video shoots
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Self-motivated, confident, energetic, and creative
- Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills
- Based on the information that has been provided to You & Them by our Client, the salary range for this position is $125-150k