Sr. Producer

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedMasters is seeking a Senior Producer to join Translation and lead large-scale campaigns from concept through wrap. You will partner with internal teams and external partners to ensure on-time delivery, quality output, and adherence to budgets.

The role requires extensive production experience, strong leadership, and the ability to navigate fast-paced, culturally driven projects across NY/CA. Salary ranges are highlighted with opportunities for additional compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production experience at a creative driven company.
• A portfolio of work showing large budget productions.
• After hours work and overnight travel to shoots and post sessions required.

Responsibilities

• Produce great work.
• Manage and lead large scale, multi-faceted campaigns from concept vetting through job wrap with limited oversight.
• Problem solve with internal and external teams to get to the best work possible.
• Develop and manage production calendars and direct the logistical flow of all phases of production to ensure all assets are delivered on time.
• Accurately evaluate the feasibility of concepts, ideas, and scripts against client parameters.
• Control the budget through all phases of production, working closely with business affairs during the production process through the closing of jobs, including presenting estimates and overages to clients for approval.
• Manage junior producers working on your project and delegate assignments based on the job needs.
• Research, evaluate and negotiate with industry partners to bring the best talent available to our projects, on time and on budget.
• Manage shoots and post sessions to ensure the creative output is at its highest quality.
• Follow financial and job wrap policies of the production department, client and agency.
• Seek opportunities for underrepresented creators both in the agency and within the industry.
• Support the creative team and their ideas/ representing, owning, championing and finding creative solutions to bring the idea to life in accordance with the brief, concept and budget
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Skills

Creative production

Budget management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Scheduling & logistics

Vendor negotiation

Job description

Who We Are

We are an award-winning independent creative solutions company that aspires to be the most culturally-influential company in the world. We help ambitious brands harness the power of culture to solve their biggest challenges. As a unique mix of experts in culture, technology, and storytelling, we are united by a passion to grow brands in ways that advertising alone can never do.

We are an entrepreneurial business – not a traditional “ad agency.” That means we value resourcefulness and tenacity just as much as we value creativity and intelligence. We’re unapologetically ambitious!

We are looking for a Senior Producer to join Translation!

What You'll Do

• Produce great work.
• Manage and lead large scale, multi-faceted campaigns from concept vetting through job wrap with limited oversight.
• Problem solve with internal and external teams to get to the best work possible.
• Develop and manage production calendars and direct the logistical flow of all phases of production to ensure all assets are delivered on time.
• Accurately evaluate the feasibility of concepts, ideas, and scripts against client parameters.
• Control the budget through all phases of production, working closely with business affairs during the production process through the closing of jobs, including presenting estimates and overages to clients for approval.
• Manage junior producers working on your project and delegate assignments based on the job needs.
• Research, evaluate and negotiate with industry partners to bring the best talent available to our projects, on time and on budget.
• Manage shoots and post sessions to ensure the creative output is at its highest quality.
• Follow financial and job wrap policies of the production department, client and agency.
• Seek opportunities for underrepresented creators both in the agency and within the industry.
• Support the creative team and their ideas/ representing, owning, championing and finding creative solutions to bring the idea to life in accordance with the brief, concept and budget
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Have an outstanding creative sensibility with a proven track record of producing industry leading work.
• A track record of gaining the trust and respect of clients, internal teams and industry partners.
• The ability to work under pressure with flexibility, agility, and a good sense of humor.
• Well versed in managing budgets and deadlines of all types with accuracy and diplomacy.
• Superb problem solving, organizational, and communications skills.
• You are a flexible multi-tasker that can handle a multitude of different responsibilities at one time.
• Existing relationships with best in class industry talent.
• Demonstrate, evangelize and live the core values of the agency.
• Incorporate the passion, excitement and experience of one’s MINOR in relevant ways that inform the quality and output of the company.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of production experience at a creative driven company.
• A portfolio of work showing large budget productions.
• After hours work and overnight travel to shoots and post sessions required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with celebrities, athletes, musicians, influencers, etc.
• Experience with union and non-union crew productions, including both SAG and non-SAG talent.
• Passion and knowledge of latest industry trends (music, media, distribution, directors, film, tech, etc).

About UnitedMasters

UnitedMasters has over 1.5 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly. Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward. In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly. With $170M raised to date and valued at $550M, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others. Over the last year, UnitedMasters artists have used our platform to land sync deals with major brands including the NBA, ESPN, Overtime Elite, Bose, Warner Brother Studios and in the NBA video game 2k. These deals give them additional money for their work and increase their exposure.

Salary Hiring Range: $115k-135k

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. in some cases that may include bonus, stock options, 401k match).

Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.

The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

The salary range above is for the NY/CA. As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.