Digital Producer

Calculated Hire; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Calculated Hire is seeking a Photography Producer (or Creative Production Coordinator) to own end-to-end photography production with a focus on creative direction and visual consistency for food, product, and lifestyle imagery. You will partner daily with photographers, editors, designers, and external vendors to deliver on-brand assets.

Role requires leading shoots, building shot lists, managing budgets, and coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure on-time, on-brand results within scope.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years producing commercial/studio photo; bonus for CPG/QSR/retail and food/product/lifestyle photography experience.
• Confident with shot planning, on-set leadership, and post workflows.
• Vendor bidding/negotiation; budget ownership.
• Solid DAM/metadata/usage rights literacy.

Responsibilities

• Define scope, deliverables, timelines, and budgets from brief.
• Build shot lists, call sheets, schedules, tech & prop lists.
• Source locations/talent/props; manage permits, COIs, releases.
• Coordinate cross-functional approvals; run pre-pro meetings.
• Collaborate with Creative to establish the leading visual look and feel for photography, ensuring consistency across food, product, and lifestyle imagery.
• Lead day-of logistics, timeboxing, and risk management.
• Own stakeholder management and decision logs.
• Ensure brand standards, safety, and legal compliance.
• Guide creative execution on set to maintain approved aesthetic, lighting, and styling for food, product, and lifestyle photography.
• Manage selects, retouching briefs, color, QC, and approvals.
• Traffic deliverables to editors/retouchers; track status.
• Ensure final imagery aligns with creative direction and brand guidelines.
• Enforce conflict of interest, preferred vendor policy compliance.
• Rights & usage: model/property releases, expirations, usage notes.
• Asset distribution to partners and channel owners.
• Lightweight producing for short-form video (boards, shot lists, crews).
• Trafficking deliverables to channel calendars (with Marketing/CMs).
• Weekly talent resourcing for internal creatives & freelancers.
• Maintain master production calendar and status.
• Build reusable templates (briefs, shot lists, call sheets, budgets).

Skills

Calm, clear communicator

Stakeholder management

On-set leadership

Tools

Smartsheet

Excel/Sheets

Adobe CC basics

DAM (AEM)

Job description

Photography Producer (or Creative Production Coordinator) Own end-to-end photography production with a strong focus on creative direction and visual consistency, particularly for food, product, and lifestyle photography. This role ensures shoots run smoothly, assets are visually compelling, organized, and usable, and cross-functional teams have what they need, on time, on budget, and on brand. Partners daily with Photographer/Retoucher, Editors, Designers, Creative, Brand/Category Marketing, and External Vendors.

About the Role

This role ensures shoots run smoothly, assets are visually compelling, organized, and usable, and cross-functional teams have what they need, on time, on budget, and on brand.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities (Photo-Led)

• Define scope, deliverables, timelines, and budgets from brief.
• Build shot lists, call sheets, schedules, tech & prop lists.
• Source locations/talent/props; manage permits, COIs, releases.
• Coordinate cross-functional approvals; run pre-pro meetings.
• Collaborate with Creative to establish the leading visual look and feel for photography, ensuring consistency across food, product, and lifestyle imagery.

2. On-Set Production (Primary)

• Lead day-of logistics, timeboxing, and risk management.
• Own stakeholder management and decision logs.
• Ensure brand standards, safety, and legal compliance.
• Guide creative execution on set to maintain approved aesthetic, lighting, and styling for food, product, and lifestyle photography.
• Manage selects, retouching briefs, color, QC, and approvals.
• Traffic deliverables to editors/retouchers; track status.
• Ensure final imagery aligns with creative direction and brand guidelines.
• Enforce conflict of interest, preferred vendor policy compliance.

Expanded Responsibilities (to fill variable time)

5. Content Operations (Secondary)

• Rights & usage: model/property releases, expirations, usage notes.
• Asset distribution to partners and channel owners.

6. Video & Social Support (Secondary)

• Lightweight producing for short-form video (boards, shot lists, crews).
• Trafficking deliverables to channel calendars (with Marketing/CMs).

7. Resource & Schedule Coordination (Secondary)

• Weekly talent resourcing for internal creatives & freelancers.
• Maintain master production calendar and status.

8. Process Improvement (Secondary)

• Build reusable templates (briefs, shot lists, call sheets, budgets).

Qualifications

• 4–7 years producing commercial/studio photo; bonus for CPG/QSR/retail and food/product/lifestyle photography experience.
• Confident with shot planning, on-set leadership, and post workflows.
• Vendor bidding/negotiation; budget ownership.
• Solid DAM/metadata/usage rights literacy.
• Tools: Smartsheet, Excel/Sheets, Adobe CC basics, DAM (AEM).

Required Skills

• Calm, clear communicator; high follow-through.
• Stakeholder management: sets expectations, gives options with trade-offs.