Lead Producer

Journey Live; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Journey Live is seeking a Lead Producer to oversee multiple complex projects, ensuring strong client relationships and delivery excellence. You will steer budgets, scope, and processes while guiding teams to meet ambitious goals and maintain high-quality outputs.

Successful candidates will have 5+ years in account management, a track record of large-scale campaigns, and a deep interest in the full production cycle, reporting to senior leadership within a global MDX context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of account management experience.
• Proven success launching large scale campaigns or experiential projects.
• Interest in all aspects of the production cycle.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Producers across multiple complex projects ensuring process and timely reporting.
• Manage budgets within your team to deliver healthy margins and prevent scope creep.
• Guides teams to build meaningful client relationships and meet delivery/quality objectives.
• Negotiate contracts independently and balance risk for the business.
• Identify risks early and take preemptive actions to mitigate them.
• Serve as final gatekeeper for all deliverables and edit communications as needed.
• Deliver our most complex projects as Lead Producer.

Skills

Account management

Campaign launches

Production lifecycle

Job description

Key Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

Clients & Delivery

• Oversee Producers across multiple complex projects across a wide range of delivery techniques ensuring that good process is followed and project reporting is accurate and timely


• Oversee all budgets within your team, focusing on delivering healthy margins and managing scope creep


• Ensure that you are guiding your team to develop meaningful client relationships, including through effective communication, project management and meeting delivery and quality objectives - ensure we achieve their big picture goals as partners rather than service providers, owning these relationships where necessary and acting as an escalation point


• Negotiate contracts independently and balance risk appropriately for the business


• Solve problems before they arise; identify potential risks to the business/projects and take preemptive actions to mitigate


• Serve as the final check/gatekeeper for all deliverables, including writing and editing communications as needed


• Delivering our most complex projects as Lead Producer

Business Development

• Own creative pitch briefs, attend pitch briefings and guide on scoping, pricing and structure where necessary


• Allocates appropriate team member to work on the pitch and reviews response ensuring appropriate to business objectives and project scope


• Presents the project to clients in pitches or supports others in doing so.

Production Leadership

• Mentors producers and their development within projects and production teams.


• Maintains consistency over the management of all projects and leads regular reviews alongside ECD ensuring client objectives are met balanced with creative requirements


• Evaluates the current status of the industry and the market to ensure delivery of relevant and useful products, messages or branding.


• Anticipates the future direction of the industry using both research and own insight and brings the company into the fore of that trajectory, contributing and leading in project shareouts, industry shareouts and any internal strategy

HR

• Line manage senior & Mid Level Producers, nurturing their career trajectories


• Leads performance reviews of their direct reports


• Ensures continued professional development / training of team members


• Acts as hiring manager for all Senior Producers within the team, identifies requirements, agrees job descriptions and advertisements and participates in interviews and selection process


• Participates in the interview and selection process for all junior and mid level Producer hires, overseeing the senior producer as hiring manager


• Participates in the interview and selection process for all team members alongside the ECD


• Serve as a role model and mentor within Squint and externally; participate in knowledge shares, actively improve Squint’s process, deliver thought leadership

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of account management experience


• Proven success launching large scale campaigns or experiential projects


• Interest in all aspects of the production cycle

Charter Traits

• Field awareness: able to absorb many variables and be decisive about next steps


• Strategic mindset; thinks outside the box


• Independent; able to work with little supervision


• Gifted at multitasking and prioritizing


• Natural leadership


• Conflict resolution


• Financial acuity


• Collaborative


• Eloquence, command


• Reliability


• Empathy, warmth, compassion


• Highly attentive to detail

Salary Pay Range

£80,000 — £95,000 GBP

About Journey

The Multidimensional Experience Agency

Journey is a global design and innovation agency shaping the future through multidimensional experiences (MDX) that connect people, brands, and culture.

Our layered MDX approach crafts story-driven, sensory-rich engagement across physical, immersive, digital, and virtual spaces—fuelled by creative and technological innovation.

Born from a legacy of pioneering studios, Journey blends strategic thinking with deep creative expertise to deliver solutions across industries.

Journey’s MDX approach fuels growth and forges lasting value for audiences and partners, by creating cultural connections that resonate with impact.

Start your journey here www.journey.world