Creative Producer

Pixel; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pixel, a boutique creative and technology agency, is seeking an Integrated Producer in San Francisco to lead live-action projects from brief to delivery. You’ll craft scopes, budgets, schedules, and staffing while solving production challenges without sacrificing the creative idea.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you’ll coordinate internal teams, clients, crews, vendors, locations, permits, and releases across campaigns spanning live action, photography, digital, social, print, retail, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in integrated production at an agency, production company, or brand studio.
• Strong experience producing live-action commercial, branded, social, or product-focused work.
• Experience managing campaigns across multiple channels and deliverable types.
• Strong knowledge of production budgets, bidding, scheduling, and reconciliation.
• Clear communication with clients, creative teams, crews, vendors, and leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple fast-moving projects and consistently follow through.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available for in-office collaboration, scouts, and shoots.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated campaigns across live action, photography, digital, social, print, retail, and experiential.
• Create scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and production approaches.
• Manage live-action projects from pre-production through shoots, post-production, and delivery.
• Coordinate internal teams, clients, crews, vendors, talent, locations, permits, insurance, usage, and releases.
• Manage estimates, bids, actual costs, contingencies, change orders, and project reconciliation.
• Identify risks early and provide practical options when budget, timing, or feasibility becomes a concern.
• Oversee editorial, color, sound, motion, retouching, approvals, versioning, and delivery.
• Keep project plans, decisions, owners, and next steps current.
• Support clear handoffs across teams in San Francisco, New York, and Vietnam.

Skills

Integrated production

Live-action production

Multichannel campaigns

Budgets & reconciliation

Client & team communication

Project juggling

Proactive problem solving

SF Bay Area based

Job description

Pixel is a boutique creative and technology agency creating integrated campaigns for leading brands, including Canon. Our work spans live-action video, photography, digital, social, print, retail, and emerging AI-enabled formats.

The Role

We’re looking for an Integrated Producer with strong live-action experience to lead projects from brief through final delivery. You’ll turn creative concepts into clear scopes, budgets, schedules, productions, and deliverables. We’re looking for someone organized, proactive, financially disciplined, and skilled at solving production challenges without compromising the creative idea.

What You’ll Do

• Lead integrated campaigns across live action, photography, digital, social, print, retail, and experiential.
• Create scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and production approaches.
• Manage live-action projects from pre-production through shoots, post-production, and delivery.
• Coordinate internal teams, clients, crews, vendors, talent, locations, permits, insurance, usage, and releases.
• Manage estimates, bids, actual costs, contingencies, change orders, and project reconciliation.
• Identify risks early and provide practical options when budget, timing, or feasibility becomes a concern.
• Oversee editorial, color, sound, motion, retouching, approvals, versioning, and delivery.
• Keep project plans, decisions, owners, and next steps current.
• Support clear handoffs across teams in San Francisco, New York, and Vietnam.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of integrated production experience at an agency, production company, or brand studio.
• Strong experience producing live-action commercial, branded, social, or product-focused work.
• Experience managing campaigns across multiple channels and deliverable types.
• Strong knowledge of production budgets, bidding, scheduling, and reconciliation.
• Clear communication with clients, creative teams, crews, vendors, and leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple fast-moving projects and consistently follow through.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available for in-office collaboration, scouts, and shoots.

Why Pixel?

You’ll work with leading brands, take meaningful ownership within a small and ambitious agency, and help shape modern production workflows, including responsible uses of AI and automation.

Pixel values creativity, resourcefulness, direct communication, and exceptional craft.