Production Director

Valid8 Financial, Inc.; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Valid8 Financial, Inc. in Culver City invites a Production Director to lead production operations for a major client account. You will oversee procurement, budgeting, and program execution, partnering with Account, Creative, Finance, and Leadership teams to ensure scalable, profitable delivery.

The role emphasizes process development, team leadership, and driving consistency across programs while maintaining a strong understanding of event production and client outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experiential/event production experience, including large-scale programs.
• Strong ability to build and pressure-test production plans, scopes, budgets, and contingency plans.
• Proven experience as an Executive Producer or senior production lead on complex events.
• Excellent vendor relationships and procurement oversight.
• Experience managing and developing senior-level production talent.

Responsibilities

• Lead production operations, procurement, budgeting, and process development across programs.
• Partner with Account, Creative, Finance, and Leadership teams to align priorities.
• Oversee multiple concurrent programs ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality.
• Mentor and develop production team members and create clear career paths.
• Identify risks early and craft action plans to keep programs on track.
• Travel and work nontraditional hours as required for events.

Skills

Experiential production

Budget management

Leadership

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Event production

Livestream platforms

Job description

Location: Hybrid (Culver City) Department: Production Reports To: VP of Growth

About the job

LA based, able to work a hybrid schedule with office hours in Culver City, CA.

Ability to travel and work nontraditional hours, including evenings and weekends, as required for events.

Applications must include examples of experiential projects or programs personally produced, with a brief description of the role and responsibilities you owned.

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Position Summary

The Production Director is responsible for leading production operations for one of the agency's largest client accounts. This role provides leadership across production operations, procurement, financial stewardship, process development, team management, and program execution.

The Production Director is accountable for building scalable systems and processes that support efficient execution, strong financial performance, and team development. They serve as a strategic partner to Account, Creative, Finance, Innovation, Influencer, and Executive Leadership teams while ensuring production teams are equipped, supported, and held accountable for successful delivery.

While this role maintains a strong understanding of event production, the primary focus is operational leadership, people management, procurement oversight, and driving consistency across programs.

Key Responsibilities

Production Operations Leadership

Maintain production processes, workflows, tools, and best practices.

Drive operational improvements that increase efficiency, accountability, and profitability.

Partner with leadership to identify and resolve operational challenges before they impact execution alongside The Core.

Serve as a senior escalation point for production-related risks, decisions, and resource planning.

Ensure compliance with agency purchasing, contracting, budgeting, and financial approval processes.

Partner with Finance and Operations teams to maintain financial visibility and accountability.

Monitor project health, profitability, staffing utilization, and production-related expenditures.

Support budget reviews and financial forecasting for key programs.

Hold production teams accountable for active budget management throughout the project lifecycle, including timely reconciliation and project closeout.

Directly manage and develop production team members while creating clear career paths, succession plans, and leadership development opportunities across the client production team.

Establish clear expectations, accountability measures, and performance goals.

Conduct regular coaching, mentoring, and career development conversations.

Create development plans for team members and identify future leaders within the team.

Foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented culture focused on continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Partner closely with Account, Creative, Influencer, Talent, Operations, and Finance teams.

Participate in client-facing conversations as a senior production leader when appropriate.

Align internal stakeholders around production priorities, risks, and resource needs.

Support strategic planning efforts and operational decision-making.

Program Oversight

Provide executive-level oversight across multiple concurrent programs and activations.

Ensure teams maintain timelines, budgets, quality standards, and client expectations.

Support production teams in solving complex challenges and removing operational barriers.

Step into executional leadership when required on critical programs or high-priority initiatives.

Maintain a holistic view across the client portfolio, proactively identifying competing priorities, resource constraints, financial risks, and executional challenges.

Ensure risks, bandwidth concerns, and budget issues are surfaced early with clear recommendations and action plans.

Qualifications

10+ years of progressive experiential/event production experience, with significant hands‑on experience personally producing complex, large-scale, high‑budget programs from pre‑production through onsite execution and reconciliation.

Deep working knowledge of experiential production, including fabrication, technical production, AV, scenic, show services, venue operations, permitting, logistics, labor, transportation, staffing, safety, and onsite execution. Livestream knowledge is a plus.

Strong vendor knowledge and industry relationships, with the ability to evaluate vendor capabilities, scopes, bids, pricing, timelines, and production approaches.

Demonstrated ability to build and pressure-test production plans, scopes, schedules, budgets, and contingency plans, not simply oversee teams responsible for developing them.

Experience serving as an Executive Producer or equivalent senior production lead on complex experiential programs, with accountability for the overall production approach and successful delivery.

Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent programs and leading production teams while maintaining visibility into the details necessary to identify risk and guide decision-making.

Proven experience managing and developing experienced production talent, including providing meaningful direction and mentorship to senior‑level producers.

Strong financial acumen, including budget development and management, forecasting, procurement, reconciliation, scope management, and project profitability.

Strong client‑facing communication and executive presence, with the ability to confidently communicate production recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and solutions.

Ability to balance strategic oversight with hands‑on production leadership, knowing when to empower the team and when deeper involvement is required.

Strong cross‑functional leadership skills and experience partnering with Account, Creative, Finance, Operations, and other agency disciplines.

Ability to travel and work nontraditional hours as required for events.

Success Metrics

Production operations run efficiently and consistently.

Procurement and financial processes are executed accurately and compliantly.

Team members demonstrate measurable growth and development.

Process improvements drive operational efficiency and scalability.

Strong partnership maintained across departments and client stakeholders.

Department goals achieved while maintaining profitability, quality, and team engagement.