Development Producer: IP & Scripted Content

Dhar Mann Studios; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dhar Mann Studios is seeking a Development Producer to ideate, develop, and produce original scripted concepts across digital and traditional platforms. This role reports to the Head of Vertical Content and drives IP expansion from concept to release.

You will lead writers’ rooms, manage diverse teams, and ensure concepts stay on budget while maintaining the IP vision across formats and platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3+ years in scripted development within the film and television industry.
• Experience ideating and writing long-form scripted series for diverse platforms (SVOD, FAST, digital, creator-led, youth, family, or female-skewing audiences).
• Fluency in digital platforms and audience retention mechanics.
• Comfort wearing multiple hats: writer, creative producer, development partner, story editor.
• Strong organizational follow-through and budget consciousness.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, develop, and produce original scripted concepts and expand existing IP into repeatable series with strong audience hooks and franchise value.
• Compose pitches, loglines, treatments, beat sheets, outlines, pitch decks, and long-form scripts against deadlines.
• Translate ideas across formats, including short-form/social, digital episodic, and linear development.
• Facilitate writer’s rooms, manage creatives, and grow diverse teams.
• Track platform trends and audience behavior to inform greenlighting decisions.
• Build a pipeline of commercially viable content aligned with brand voice.
• Collaborate with production to keep IP vision through execution.
• Be highly responsive in a fast-moving development environment.

Skills

Scripted development

IP development

Team leadership

Budget awareness

Fast-paced environments

Tools

Pitch decks

Beat sheets

Treatments

Job description

Dhar Mann Studios is seeking a Development Producer to ideate, develop, and produce original scripted concepts across digital and traditional platforms. This role reports to the Head of Vertical Content and drives IP expansion from concept to release.

You will lead writers’ rooms, manage diverse teams, and ensure concepts stay on budget while maintaining the IP vision across formats and platforms.