This role is open to be based in: New York City, New York
We are seeking a VP, Executive Producer to lead and execute content, video, and experiential productions across various programs, including social, influencer, and events. This role is for an innovative, detail-oriented, and energetic production leader. If you like team collaboration, creative integration with strategy and channel insights, fast-paced planning, and being in lockstep with technology clients, this is the role for you. This role will sit in the Edelman production network, exclusively servicing Assembly and the Microsoft client.
Who are you?
You love the excitement of the agency content and experiential production process: collaborating, creating planning and timeline documentation, estimating and tracking budgets, and providing great creative and client service on set and through final delivery. You represent production’s best practices and manage risk, all while being innovative, flexible, and proactive so that nothing falls through the cracks. You love people, relationship building, communication, and being in a fast-paced work environment—and you thrive on integrating with some of our industry’s brightest leaders in social media and AI.
The job
You will be responsible for leading and managing creative productions with a focus on content and experiential. Together with the EVP, Production Lead, and the Head of Client Delivery, you will be innovating on production processes and elevating best practices for quick turn production opportunities.
During creative ideation, you’ll consult on production planning, feasibility, and proactively map to timing and budget. You’ll develop, own, and track timing and budget inputs into overarching project management frameworks.
You’ll be the main point of contact from pre-production through onsite production, post-production, and final delivery for multiple projects, efficiently using tools and trackers to manage production workflow, and acting as an agile and proactive partner across project management, creative, production delivery specialists, as well as clients during key production milestones.
Responsibilities
- Partner with creative, project management, and account leads to inform, scope, and execute productions end to end, at the highest quality.
- Prepare and customize production budgets, schedules, and other planning documentation for content shoots, experiential productions, and other production deliverables as needed.
- Partner with Business Affairs to ensure all compliance and legal issues are managed across deliverables, providing a point of view to managing risk.
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with a variety of vendor partners.
- Collaborate with strategy and creative teams to champion innovative ideas, by assessing feasibility, advocating for the creative process, and providing solutions on time and budget.
- Possess a willingness and curiosity to learn and explore beyond your core.
- Manage expectations across the team and client, giving recommendations when required.
- Partner with project management ongoing to innovate on process and tools, merging best practices with customization as needed to unlock high levels of creative and client service on evolving programs.
- Willingness to travel to events and shoots for productions, working directly with clients and teams onsite.
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years experience at a creative agency, marketing/comms, production company position.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of end to end processes involved in a production lifecycle (social, video, design, experiential) and ability to work across both in house and vendor teams.
- Enthusiasm and deep knowledge of social media is a plus.
- Excellent planning, organizing and time management skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong ability to estimate and manage budgets, create timelines and other production process documentation.
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Assembly is an integrated agency providing purpose-built communications to Microsoft – bringing strategy, creative, research, social and digital, and influencer marketing together to drive tangible business results and advance Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.
We advocate for ideas based on real audience insights and sound strategic opportunities and bring them to life with creative executions that earn attention. We are the team behind some of Microsoft’s most exciting work across Surface, Xbox, M365, and Windows to name a few. We are the lead agency for the Microsoft brand across social; the global PR agency of record for Xbox; and the influencer agency of record for Xbox, Surface, M365 and Windows. Assembly is also a strategic partner for executive communications across Microsoft Store and several executives across the company.
Our results are a direct reflection of our culture and people – we believe that bringing together diverse perspectives enhance creativity and innovation, and we embrace and celebrate differences both in our organization and through our work. We’ve partnered with Microsoft for 27 years, across 17 countries around the world. Come be a part of our collective story as we partner with Microsoft to enable each other to achieve more.
Assembly Media was founded in 2014 under DJE Holdings to exclusively service Microsoft. In 2019 our parent agency, Edelman, was recognized by AdAge as one of the top 10 creative companies in the U.S. and recognized as a 2019 Best Place to Work.
Assembly is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.
