Lead Producer - project specific

Journey; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Journey is seeking an experienced Lead Producer in London to oversee the delivery of a multi-project initiative creating cutting-edge 3D visualization workflows for marketing and media production around a new urban city.

You will lead producers across projects, manage budgets and client relationships, and guide pitches, with a focus on delivering high-impact creative work. hybrid work is available around project commitments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of account management experience.
• Proven success launching large scale campaigns or experiential projects.
• Interest in all aspects of the production cycle.
• A strategic mindset; thinks outside the box.
• Experience in conflict resolution.
• Financial leadership over project budgets.
• Highly attentive to detail.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Guide team to develop meaningful client relationships through effective communication, project management and meeting delivery and quality objectives.
• Negotiate contracts independently and balance risk appropriately for the business.
• 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.
• Deliver the most complex projects as Lead Producer.
• 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 alignment with objectives.
• Present projects to clients in pitches or support others in doing so.
• Mentor producers and their development within projects and production teams.
• Maintain consistency over the management of all projects and lead regular reviews with ECD.

Skills

Account management

Campaign launches

Production cycle

Strategic mindset

Conflict resolution

Budget leadership

Attention to detail

Job description

We are seeking an experienced project specific Lead Producer to lead the product delivery for a multi-project initiative that creates cutting-edge 3D visualization workflows supporting marketing and media production for a new urban city.

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.
• 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 Qualifications & Skills

Required

• 10+ years of account management experience
• Proven success launching large scale campaigns or experiential projects
• Interest in all aspects of the production cycle
• A strategic mindset; thinks outside the box
• Experience in conflict resolution
• Financial leadership over project budgets
• Highly attentive to detail

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months

Location : London

We value regular in-person collaboration because we think it leads to the best creative work however hybrid working is available around project commitments.

Interviews: Introductory calls and interviews are anticipated from 14th September. We aim to run two rounds of interview for this role with various members of our project teams, time to visit the studio and opportunity to meet more people in person.

If you have any questions about accessibility in applying for this position please highlight this in your cover letter.

We follow pay transparency, meaning we publish a salary range for each role. The salary range is the full earning potential during someone’s time in a role. Salary offers are made within this range and based on your experience and parity with the strength of our existing team/s.

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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-fuelledby creative and technological innovation.

Born from a legacy of pioneering studios, Journey blends strategic thinking with deep creativeexpertiseto 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.