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Title: Junior Digital Producer
Office: Los Angeles
Reports to: Executive Producer
TBWAMedia Arts Lab (or MAL as you’ll hear us called) is the bespoke global advertising agency dedicated solely to Apple. Our mission is to create smart, simple and iconic work that transforms business and makes culture for the world’s best brand.
We believe that what MAL creates belongs to everyone; and everyone belongs at MAL. We think creativity lives in open, safe and brave spaces, where diverse perspectives can come together, free of prejudice and discrimination. We strive to be a partnership of equals. Everyone has a role to play here, and we invite you to bring your fully authentic and crazy selves to this space. Together, we’ll do the best work we’ve ever done.
We’re headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with 5 further international hubs and over 700 people making great work for Apple in 26 markets around the globe. We’d love to meet you!
The Junior Digital Producer will operate at the center of all interactive projects alongside their production lead. This person will help ensure production runs smoothly and efficiently while maintaining brand integrity and adherence to global strategy. This role serves as a bridge between creative development, media and production of deliverables.
This person will work to forge strong relationships with account management, media agencies, and vendors. The foremost responsibility of this role is to ensure that your projects are delivered on time, on budget and with the highest degree of quality and excellence possible.
The Junior Producer is highly organized, proactive and friendly. A flexible, can-do attitude and a general curiosity in the digital advertising space is a must.
The work:
- Assist lead producers in communication of relevant project information to the team, including status reports, meeting agendas and meeting notes
- Development of production timelines, creating estimates, overseeing finances and budgets, managing vendors, setting up meetings for review/approval of work, and internal resource management
- Work with more senior producers to help oversee teams and solve production issues as they arise
- Coordination, tracking and delivery of creative assets for production teams
- Organize and maintain all project artifacts for each production
- Responsible for quality control of all final deliverables
- Generate POs, monitor invoices and collaborate with Accounts Payable to ensure payment of vendors
- Conduct technical and creative exploratory research, as needed
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good organizational and time management skills
Who will thrive in this role:
- At least 2+ years experience in interactive marketing or advertising
- Must be able to create and manage timelines in order to successfully deliver productions on-time and on-budget
- Strong organizational mindset and problem-solving skills; ability to escalate issues and continually find solutions despite obstacles
- Must be familiar with IAB Standards, rich media standards, online advertising protocols and strategies, web and app development, and popular social platforms (IG, TikTok, SnapChat)
- Strives to get the job done cooperatively, respectfully, and with a fun attitude
- Passion to create smart, innovative, thoughtful work
- Participates in and contributes to agency culture
TBWAMedia Arts Lab
TBWAMedia Arts Lab (or MAL as you’ll hear us called) is the bespoke global advertising agency dedicated solely to Apple. Our mission is to create smart, simple and iconic work that transforms business and makes culture for the world’s best brand.
We believe that what MAL creates belongs to everyone; and everyone belongs at MAL. We think creativity lives in open, safe and brave spaces, where diverse perspectives can come together, free of prejudice and discrimination. We strive to be a partnership of equals. Everyone has a role to play here, and we invite you to bring your fully authentic and crazy selves to this space. Together, we’ll do the best work we’ve ever done.
We’re headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with 5 international hubs and over 700 people making great work for Apple in 26 markets around the globe. We’d love to meet you!
An Executive Producer at MAL must be a natural leader; perpetuating MAL culture and setting the example for what a MAL producer should be. This role requires innovative thinking and a hands-on approach. We want someone who can lead a team, has a strong understanding of the technical side of digital production and who can foster flawless execution in production. This person should have deep connections in the digital world, a highly collaborative attitude, and a commitment to doing whatever it takes to make great work.
The Work
- Serve as a key partner to Account, Creative, Strategy and Media counterparts
- Collaborate across all disciplines to ensure digital advertising is represented and stays parallel to traditional creative
development process:
- Work with internal creative and production teams to determine the best ways forward
- Oversee and adequately communicate production realities
- Create production timelines and budgets
feedback & balanced workloads to grow appropriately
- Manage a portfolio of work:
- Manage multiple work streams simultaneously
- Review all project briefs for timing and resource assignments
- Provide prioritization guidance for project teams
- Evaluate vendor needs and manage accordingly
- Cultivate relationships with creative and strategic teams to help them understand the limitations, possibilities and ongoing learnings within the digital space
- Work closely with Media on domestic and global media plans to determine the appropriate strategy for each creative launch and ensure flawless technical execution on each build
- Create, shepherd, and champion ideas – partner with Creative Technologists to continually push the limits for what’s possible and help expand our technology practices
- Develop a deep understanding of agency processes, tools, and capabilities to get the work done effectively and efficiently. Beyond this, think outside of the box to problem solve new work processes & solutions that may not be the ‘norm’.
- Responsible for handling challenging conversations through the production process
- Collaboration & People Management:
- Maintain strong, trusting, open relationships with internal departments & global MAL counterparts
- Manage vendor relationships; including active evaluation of new vendors
- Ensure proper training of production team within the pod & share best practices or learnings within the department
- Model exemplary time management and communication skills to producers
- Partner with other EPs on producer staffing, training and development for the team
- Actively track progress of producers through regular performance check-ins, ensuring they have clear goals, direct
Who will thrive in this role?
- Someone with an unrelenting ambition to create smart, simple, iconic work for our client.
- A master communicator – someone who can give clear direction and support to the team and client
- Must be a proven leader who can handle programmatic management of multiple complex work streams at once, meet deliverables, create budgets and manage resources
- Must have experience in the online space and advertising deliverables; static and animated banners, rich media, website development and social activations. global localization experience a plus.
- Someone with the ability to keep teams motivated and positive
- A champion of DEI, with the understanding that the expectation of DEI for leaders at MAL is that it is a responsibility and not just a
passion.
- Someone who is mature and unflappable under pressure and tight deadlines, with an art for dealing with conflict resolution
- Someone with the ability to turn lessons learned from each project and experience into training tools & growth opportunities
- Someone who strives to get the job done cooperatively, respectfully and with a great attitude
- Someone who participates in and contributes to agency culture
TBWAMedia Arts Lab
TBWAMedia Arts Lab (or MAL as you’ll hear us called) is the bespoke global advertising agency dedicated solely to Apple. Our mission is to create smart, simple and iconic work that transforms business and makes culture for the world’s best brand.
We believe that what MAL creates belongs to everyone; and everyone belongs at MAL. We think creativity lives in open, safe and brave spaces, where diverse perspectives can come together, free of prejudice and discrimination. We strive to be a partnership of equals. Everyone has a role to play here, and we invite you to bring your fully authentic and crazy selves to this space. Together, we’ll do the best work we’ve ever done.
We’re headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with 5 further international hubs and over 700 people making great work for Apple in 26 markets around the globe. We’d love to meet you!
Reporting to the Executive Producers of Content Production, the Assistant Producer assists with all duties related to execution and delivery of TV broadcast commercials, and content for any and all mediums.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in creation of production schedule and project timelines
- Create estimates and revisions to estimates, based on bids from various vendors
- Issue PO’s and submit invoices from vendors for proper payment
- Bid and purchase production insurance via AON web portal
- Take notes at all meetings, reviews and on set; and sends summary to the team
- Learn and gain experience/exposure to legal concerns/parameters, film/video/stock footage/brand/music licensing, budget oversight and talent guidelines
- Build relationships with producers, creatives, vendors, account teams, BA and beyond
- Facilitate travel process needs in service of the team’s traveling members (for all departments traveling on the job) and manages approval processes with lead producers and account team
- Participate in and primarily manage the quality control of final file outputs for an air masters and client deliverables
- Manage (with oversight and approval from leads/juniors) any cost plus wrap process administration
- Assist in creation and completion of wrap doc reports for all finished projects
- Upload spots to internal spot library and ensures uploads have landed and that completion reports are finished per lead producer approval
- Stays abreast of great work happening around the world
Requirements:
- Experience in broadcast production—either agency or production company
- Familiarity with the work flow of various post production processes including: editorial, sound/mix, animation/vfx, online/flame
- Familiarity with various global broadcast formats
- Familiarity with file formats and video file types
- Strong ability to multi-task
- Excellent communication skills
- Organized, efficient, calm, and quick thinking
TBWAMedia Arts Lab