VP, Production

VaynerMedia LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Holiday

Parental Leave

Life Assurance

Group Pension

Cycle to work

Job summary

VaynerMedia seeks a visionary VP of Production to lead end-to-end production across Always-On Social, Premium Video, Live Events and Creator/Influencer work streams for our UK and Germany client portfolio. You will own the production engine, oversee a team of Directors and Producers, and partner with global and local teams to drive excellence in delivery.

You will shape the production strategy for the EMEA region, ensure financial health of the account, and translate creative intent into

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience as a VP or Executive Producer leading complex production scopes.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills to develop talent and reduce operational friction.
• Proven track record standing up and operationalising new teams and systems.
• Experience aligning regional teams across EMEA, with Germany being a bonus.
• Experience managing team profitability and operational health.
• Broad production fluency across social-first creative, video, live events, experiential and creator ecosystems.
• Strong commercial acumen with rate cards, burn tracking, margins, and vendor negotiations.
• Strategic problem-solving and crisis-management capabilities in live production environments.

Responsibilities

• Onboard and launch the end-to-end integrated production model, workflows and delivery infrastructure for a brand-new client account.
• Own the ongoing performance and evolution of the work streams, identifying opportunities to increase asset volume or quality, improve quality or efficiency and strengthen commercial performance.
• Act as the key operational bridge between UK and German markets, driving alignment and consistent delivery across both.
• Integrate disparate workstreams, including Always-On Social, Premium Video, Live Experiential, and Creator/Influencer streams for maximum cohesion.
• Build and manage a team of expert producers across disciplines to scale these work streams.
• Act as the key Production lead for EMEA within the global account structure, ensuring alignment between global and local teams.
• Partner with Client Partnership lead to manage overall account commercials and financial health.
• Drive collaborative creative discussions with the creative lead to enhance quality of work across the account.
• Partner with the Strategic Lead to shape strategic thinking and output.
• Establish clear ways of working for the client across multiple markets and teams.
• Provide executive production leadership for major brand moments, premium videos, live events and complex activations.
• Collaborate with CAIT to operationalise creator/influencer production infrastructures and scalable sourcing models.
• Serve as the senior operational client-facing authority on production strategy, resourcing, risk mitigation and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to build tentpole events and partnerships in the market.

Skills

Leadership

Executive Producer

Cross-market

Production fluency

Commercial acumen

Crisis management

Strategic thinking

Job description

We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few.

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We are looking for a visionary VP of Production to serve as the ultimate production conductor and senior operational leader across one of our largest EMEA client portfolios spanning the UK and Germany. In this role, you will stand as the partner to the Client Partner Lead, taking total ownership of the account's end-to-end production engine, social content operating system, commercial health, and full client scope.

You will oversee a team of Production Directors and Producers and manage multiple work streams across Always-On Social, Premium Video, Experiential and events, creator and Influencer production. You are responsible for ensuring all production work streams run seamlessly, translating creative vision into flawless execution while building a faster, leaner, and more efficient production engine.

Here’s where you come in…

• Onboard and launch the end-to-end integrated production model, workflows and delivery infrastructure for a brand-new client account.
• Own the ongoing performance and evolution of the work streams, identifying opportunities to increase asset volume or quality, improve quality or efficiency and strengthen commercial performance.
• Act as the key operational bridge between UK and German markets, driving alignment and consistent delivery across both.
• Integrate disparate workstreams, including Always-On Social, Premium Video, Live Experiential, and Creator/Influencer (CAIT) - to ensure maximum cohesion across all.
• Build and manage a team of expert producers across disciplines who will help scale against these work streams
• Act as the key Production lead for EMEA, representing local market needs and priorities within the global account structure and ensuring alignment between global and local teams
• Partner with Client Partnership lead to manage overall account commercials, ensuring strong financial health in its entirety.
• Drive collaborative creative discussions with the creative lead, pitching original ideas and strategic inputs to enhance the quality of work across the account
• Partner closely with the Strategic Lead, contributing operational and production expertise to shape strategic thinking and output
• Drive collaborative creative discussions with the creative lead, pitching original ideas and strategic inputs to enhance the quality of work across the account
• Establish clear ways of working for the client, ensuring collaboration with integrated teams across multiple markets.
• Provide executive production leadership for teams across major brand moments, premium videos, live event content captures, and complex partnership activations.
• Partner with the VP of Creator/Influencer (CAIT) to operationalise creator, influencer, and talent production infrastructures, governing contracts, platform integrations, and scalable sourcing models.
• Serve as the senior operational client-facing authority on production strategy, scoping, resourcing, risk mitigation, and operational delivery.Work alongside the client partner for operational delivery, risk mitigation, and executive issue resolution.
• Proactively join the dots between existing and new activities/partnerships and how to build them out - identifying cultural signals to create and power tentpole events and productions.

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• Senior leadership experience as a VP, Executive Producer, or Lead Producer running complex integrated production scopes
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills focused on developing talent, unifying teams, and removing operational friction, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Proven track record standing up and operationalising new teams and systems
• Demonstrated success serving as a cross-market connector, aligning regional teams across EMEA, with Germany being a bonus
• Experience managing, alone or collaboratively, team profitability and operational health
• Broad production fluency across social-first creative, video, live events, experiential, events, creator ecosystems, and post-production
• Sharp commercial acumen with experience with rate cards, burn tracking, margin optimisation, and vendor negotiations.
• Strategic problem-solving and crisis-management capabilities in live production environments

Here’s how We Support You

We regularly review our benefits and are committed to providing a comprehensive programme for our people. Here’s what we have to offer:

• Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
• YuLife (online discount platform)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
• Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free
• Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
• 2 weeks Work From Anywhere
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new ideas, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.

Candidates must be authorised to work in the United Kingdom.