Producer
Description:
The Producer will partner with the Design Team, Brand, PM, Retail, Channel, Event, Hardware, Print and other XF teams teams to produce marketing material for various worldwide touch points. Producers liaise with internal production teams, external production companies, design and VFX shops, music & sound design houses. Producer is responsible for creating schedules, procuring and evaluating budgets/bids and partnering with business affairs to determine music and talent usage. They establish production workflows, track a multitude of deliverables and ensure highest quality control through the process. Producers archive and wrap projects upon their completion.
Key Qualifications:
- You have 10+ years of experience in a producer position at an agency, commercial production company, or in-house marketing communications or creative services department.
- Comfortable presenting to Sr. Leadership both within Marcom and to outside partners.
- Managing creative development, organizing presentations, managing approval processes and schedules. The position works closely with other teams within Marcom (including Creative, Editing, Production and Studio) and groups outside of Marcom.
- You have experience with VFX Department responsibilities such as: maintaining VFX Stats Database, Artists Calendars, Project Calendars
- You have relationships with the production community that bring an in-depth knowledge of resources, crew, and production vendors.
- Excellent communication skills, written and spoken.
- Aligning with Strategy, Brand and Production partners to create end-to-end timing plans that deliver against the business need.
- You are able to organize, track, QC and deliver multiple files within industry standard project management tools, such as Shotgrid, FTrack, Jira, Wrike and Asana.
- You have collaborated with VFX artists (Maya/Nuke) and colorists to manage project milestones from concept to final master delivery.
- Working closely with creative and production teams to develop holistic marketing identities that support all consumer touch points for a product’s launch.
- Understand the legal, regulatory, environmental, and manufacturing constraints related to each category of products
- Set up kick-off and reviews with cross-functional partners and collaborate with others toward the project plan including the key dates, prioritization and the strategy around creative solutions
- Maintain and distribute weekly priorities to team members and partners
- Collecting assets and information for the creative team, ensuring they are set-up for success in their explorations
- Scheduling shares, distilling feedback, distributing meeting notes and driving the team toward creative lock — always working one step ahead.
- Understand the legal, regulatory, environmental, and manufacturing constraints related to each category of products and partner with your designer to implement as needed.
- Forecasting creative resource needs and actively managing project resources in planning tools; working closely with your Manager to make recommendations for project-level staffing based on project needs and creatives’ bandwidth.
- Supporting the Managing Producer during quarterly planning to capture business asks and resourcing needs in planning tools, attending planning meetings and helping drive comms to cross-functional partners.
- Problem-solving obstacles that create inefficiencies and making recommendations for new ways of working.
Years of experience : 10+ Years
Travel Required : No travel required
Business Day Timings: 9 AM to 5 PM
Hours may fluctuate based on project needs.
