Associate Producer — Digital & Live Content Activations

Tombras; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly offices

Flexible PTO

Generous parental leave

Medical for employee + dependents

Job summary

Tombras, a 600+ person, full-service national advertising agency with a digital mindset, is seeking an Associate Producer in Knoxville, TN. You’ll manage production from kickoff to final delivery, collaborating with Creative, Account Management, Business Affairs, and Tombras Studios to ensure on-time, on-budget results.

With 2–3+ years of production experience in advertising and a background in digital, social, or live activations, you’ll handle budgeting, vendor discussions, and multi-project

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years of production experience in an advertising agency, production company, or related environment.
• Experience doing digital, social, branded content production, live activations
• Working knowledge of hi-fi video, digital, social, print, photography, radio, and post-production workflows
• Understanding of production budgeting and estimating
• Familiarity with talent contracts, licensing, usage rights, and production legalities is a plus

Responsibilities

• Manage productions from kickoff through final delivery
• Coordinate internal teams and external vendors throughout the production process
• Ensure all deliverables meet agency, client, and technical specifications
• Prepare production estimates and budgets
• Track production costs throughout each project
• Review vendor bids and negotiate competitive pricing
• Assist with invoicing, purchase orders, reconciliations, and financial closeout
• Source partners and talent, directors, photographers, editors, VFX artists, animators, music houses, post-production facilities, and freelance crew
• Build and maintain strong relationships with production partners
• Coordinate contracts and scopes in partnership with Business Affairs
• Manage post-production through delivery
• Coordinate editing, color, sound design, music licensing, animation, VFX, finishing, and final delivery
• Be able work in very small nimble crews to create content

Skills

Production experience

Digital/social production

Budgeting/estimation

Organized

Communication

Problem-solving

Multi-project management

Team player

Proactive mindset

Job description

Tombras, a 600+ person, full-service national advertising agency with a digital mindset, is seeking an Associate Producer in Knoxville, TN. You’ll manage production from kickoff to final delivery, collaborating with Creative, Account Management, Business Affairs, and Tombras Studios to ensure on-time, on-budget results.

With 2–3+ years of production experience in advertising and a background in digital, social, or live activations, you’ll handle budgeting, vendor discussions, and multi-project