Photo Studio Production Lead

Stanley 1913; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanley 1913 is seeking a Photo Studio Producer to lead end-to-end studio productions, coordinating with art directors, creative operations, and studio teams. You will build schedules, manage budgets, and ensure timely delivery of assets across campaigns and product education initiatives.

You thrive in fast-paced environments, maintain meticulous production documentation, and drive cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in production or creative operations within an ecommerce or agency environment
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced production environment
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and process discipline
• Excellent communicator with experience aligning cross-functional teams around processes and priorities
• Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable making decisions independently
• Comfortable working with project and production management systems such as Asana and Creative Force
• Ability to anticipate challenges, solve problems proactively, and adapt to changing priorities
• Comfortable working with production schedules, budgets, and timelines
• Curious and eager to explore emerging technologies, including AI, to improve studio workflows, streamline processes, and increase operational efficiency
• Thrives in fast-paced, high-volume environments with evolving operational needs

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end production process for studio projects, from project intake through final asset delivery.
• Build and maintain production schedules in partnership with the Studio Operations Manager, balancing project priorities, studio capacity, and business deadlines.
• Coordinate photographers, stylists, retouchers, freelancers, agencies, and external vendors to ensure productions run efficiently.
• Negotiate and track rates with freelance creatives, vendors, and talent ensuring all production costs stay within the allocated project or campaign budget.
• Own production kickoffs, check-ins, and pre-production meetings, communicate timelines, deliverables, dependencies, and expectations across cross-functional teams.
• Monitor project progress, proactively identifying risks and implementing solutions to keep productions on track.
• Maintain production documentation including shot lists, schedules, call sheets, run-of-show documents, and production trackers.
• Ensure all required products, samples, props, creative briefs, and supporting materials are available prior to each shoot.
• Partner with Studio Sample Coordinator to resolve product availability issues and mitigate production delays.
• Continuously improve studio workflows, documentation, and production processes to support scalability and consistency.
• Manage stakeholder expectations by providing clear communication, regular status updates, and proactive issue resolution.
• Facilitate approvals throughout production to ensure assets meet creative, brand, and business requirements.
• Track deliverables through post-production to ensure assets are delivered accurately and on schedule.
• Ensure file naming, metadata, and asset organization standards are followed.
• Partner with post-production teams to prioritize retouching and final delivery timelines.
• Support quality assurance reviews before final asset distribution.

Skills

Production planning

Coordination

Budgeting

Communication

Asana

Creative Force

Project management

Tools

Creative Force

Asana

Job description

Stanley 1913 is seeking a Photo Studio Producer to lead end-to-end studio productions, coordinating with art directors, creative operations, and studio teams. You will build schedules, manage budgets, and ensure timely delivery of assets across campaigns and product education initiatives.

You thrive in fast-paced environments, maintain meticulous production documentation, and drive cross-functional collaboration.