Droga5 Talent Manager

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 68,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Droga5 is seeking a Talent Manager in New York to handle on-camera and voice-over talent responsibilities across film, radio, print, and digital productions. You will work with the Business Affairs Manager and Producer from concept through final billing to support client goals with high-quality, low-risk content.

The role emphasizes talent casting, contracts, payments, and compliance within SAG/AFTRA guidelines, partnering across production teams in a fast-paced agency environment.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of agency or business affairs experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent training.
• Knowledge of performance unions and talent hiring in US and abroad.
• Strong organizational, time-management and negotiating skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with urgent deadlines.
• Strong communication skills across departments.

Responsibilities

• Review creative materials to determine talent needs and create session estimates.
• Estimate talent residuals based on media plan provided by Account and Media team.
• Manage and monitor talent session and residual payments with third-party vendor.
• Advise on talent casting specs, hiring categories, zones and exclusivity issues.
• Interpret SAG/AFTRA code and advise on union requirements.
• Generate union and non-union performer contracts.
• Interface with talent agents for scale talent and negotiating with non-union talent.
• Advise on labor requirements regarding engagement of talent.
• Check union status of performers, submit Taft Hartley reports, generate session/completion reports.
• Review completed contracts, W4s, CA/NY wage notices, time reports.
• Process talent payments, including pension/health contributions and payroll tax deductions.
• Generate holding fee notices and advise of Maximum Period of Use for union agreements.
• Defend SAG claims and respond to audit requirements.
• Screen final commercial to confirm final cast and pay usage.
• Compile completions reports and final cast lists.
• Track all talent rights and manage rights trackers with Business Manager.

Skills

Talent management

Negotiation

Contracting

Union knowledge

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Job description

Who we are

Droga5, part of Accenture Song, is a creative agency with offices in New York, London, Dublin, Tokyo and São Paulo. From integrated communications and experience innovation to business design, Droga5 exists to build and sustain the most influential brands of the 21st century through creativity. Droga5 was founded in 2006 and has been recognized as Agency of the Year more than 25 times and was named both Ad Age and Adweek’s Agency of the Decade (2010–2019). Visit Droga5.com or @droga5 on all social platforms to get to know us better.

Business Affairs @ Droga5

Droga5’s Business Affairs Department takes a solution-oriented approach to mitigating risk in content production. Our primary role is to advise and support the Production teams in all matters, including contracting with production vendors, content licensing and clearance, talent procurement, traffic and managing/reconciling production budgets. BA’s focus is to ensure the agency delivers quality, thought-provoking content that surpasses our client’s core marketing goals with minimal risk to the agency and client.

Job Summary

The Talent Manager handles the on-camera and voice-over talent responsibilities of film, radio, print, and interactive productions for assigned clients. The Talent Manager works alongside the Business Affairs Manager and Producer to handle the production of content from creative concepting through final billing.

Job Responsibilities

• Review creative materials to determine talent needs and create session estimates based thereon
• Estimate talent residuals based on media plan provided by Account and Media team
• Manage and monitor talent session and residual payments in collaboration with third party vendor
• Advise on talent casting specs, appropriate talent hiring categories, zone areas and exclusivity issues
• Interpret SAG/AFTRA code and advise on union requirements
• Generate union and non-union performer contracts
• Interface with talent agents for scale talent and negotiating with non-union talent
• Advise on labor requirements regarding engagement of talent
• Check union status of performers (Station 12), submit necessary Taft Hartley reports, generate session and completion reports
• Review completed contracts, W4’s, CA/NY wage notices, time reports etc.
• Process talent payments, including appropriate pension and health contributions (where appropriate) and payroll tax deductions
• Generate holding fee notices and advise of Maximum Period of Use for union agreements
• Defend SAG claims and respond to audit requirements
• Screen final commercial to confirm final cast and pay appropriate usage
• Compile completions reports and final cast lists
• Track all talent rights and manage rights trackers in conjunction with Business Manager

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of work experience in an agency or related business affairs/legal department

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree inarelated field or equivalent training and/or experience
• Knowledge of performance unions and talent hiring in both the US and abroad
• Strong organizational, time-management and negotiating skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment while managing urgent deadlines
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written and listening) and ability to interact with all agency departments

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