Lead Production Manager – Original Content

Gaia, Inc.; Louisville (CO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Gaia, Inc. in Louisville, CO is seeking a Production Manager to serve as the operational backbone of its original content production.

The role owns logistics, scheduling, and budgets from development through final delivery and works directly with producers to define scope and maintain schedule and budget. You will book crews for studio and remote shoots, build preproduction and production calendars, and monitor series budgets as production progresses.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of production management, line producing or production coordination experience in television, streaming or digital video.
• Proven experience building and managing multi-series production budgets and schedules.
• Experience booking and managing crews for both studio and remote/field shoots.
• Strong working knowledge of the full production pipeline, from development through postproduction and delivery.
• Highly organized with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage multiple productions at once.
• Experience with project/time tracking software (KeyedIn or similar) and production accounting workflows.

Responsibilities

• Book all crews for studio and remote shoots, while considering the budget.
• Create all preproduction and production calendars and sync with the Head of Post on postproduction calendars.
• Create all series budgets, and monitor expenses as production progresses, from development to final delivery.
• Track, process and approve invoices and external production expenses.
• Work with producers on the scope of each production and keep them on track from preproduction through postproduction.
• Project manage set construction, which includes hiring designers, scheduling and monitoring the builds, and managing creative approvals.
• Oversee KeyedIn, including assigning, updating and maintaining accurate time tracking across projects.
• Manage all financial processing for production, which includes processing and approving invoices, maintaining the production credit card, and meeting with accounting on capitalization of assets.

Skills

Budget management

Communication

Time tracking software

Organizational skills

Tools

KeyedIn

Job description

Gaia, Inc. in Louisville, CO is seeking a Production Manager to serve as the operational backbone of its original content production.

The role owns logistics, scheduling, and budgets from development through final delivery and works directly with producers to define scope and maintain schedule and budget. You will book crews for studio and remote shoots, build preproduction and production calendars, and monitor series budgets as production progresses.