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As an Associate Producer on the China team, you will join the effort of shipping incredible experiences for players in China. By encouraging teams to collaborate we’ll drive development, smashing through obstacles and driving projects across the finish line and into players’ hands. We’ll meet and exceed expectations by helping conceptualize, deliver, improve, and influence creative projects at every stage of production.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and drive the delivery of multiple game production projects in collaboration with internal and external partners to optimize the experience of players in China.
• Ensure cross-functional communication with external partners, bridging the gap between organizations by facilitating discussions, driving alignment, and negotiating compromises as necessary to ensure the timely service delivery and deployment in China regions.
• Collaborate with partners across the organization, communicate product vision, and serve as a resource for game service delivery in China regions, and an advocate for the player experience in China.
• Drive product vision and development, from conception to launch, of products and product strategies that aim to improve efficiency and collaboration with partners in China
• Lead the team in scoping and prioritizing features based on customer impact, and ensure each product has well-defined, essential metrics and the proper tracking mechanisms to measure key performance indicators.

Desired Qualifications

• Fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese (required), with a deep understanding of Chinese culture and the China market, and can pick up nuances in either language.
• Your passion for video games is what drove you to the industry; you love games and take play seriously.
• You take deep pride in your work and view each new problem as an opportunity for success; you approach challenges creatively, but methodically, sparking discussions as you work toward prioritizing and breaking down the steps to solutions.
• While you’re a capable self-manager, your natural verve and sense of fun make you thrive as part of a team; you encourage others, provide meaningful and constructive criticism, and remain cool, calm, and collected in a crisis.
• You actualize visions through capable team facilitation, tactical execution, and unrelenting focus on daily progress; you connect player engagement efforts to a broader vision and understand how to create content players will like and share over and over again

Our Perks

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner’s Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant’s criminal history.
Riot Games

Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution

Description

About Future

We are Future, a global multi-platform media company with big ambitions and the talent to bring them to life. Together, we connect people to their passions through the high-quality content we create and the innovative technology we pioneer.

We’re the name behind market-leading brands in specialist sectors like technology, gaming & entertainment, music, creative & photography, field sports, knowledge and home interest. Specialists in our field are passionate about what we do, every year we attract millions of consumers to our websites, magazines, events and social spaces.

We’re dedicated to creating loyal fans of our brands, and the number is growing all the time. But that’s not enough – we’re continually adding to our portfolio, building on our technology and investing in our people. Everything we do is born from our desire to innovate and influence and we restlessly look to improve. We hire people we can learn from and we work together to push the boundaries of what can be done.

Together, we’re exceeding the expectations of everyone we exist for – our audiences, clients and shareholders. Our shareholders have watched Future transition into an innovative global platform for specialist media, our share price has performed well in parallel with both the transition and our growing ability in making our content pay. Shares Magazine has issued their 10 stocks for 2018 which includes Future as one of their top picks.

We reap the rewards too, of course, with a fun and creative place to work and the kind of personal development that makes every day even more enjoyable and challenging. We believe it to be a really exciting time to join Future.

Every kind of talent is celebrated and nurtured here. We believe in teamwork that transcends location, which means we don’t have a Future headquarters. Across our offices in the UK, US, France and Australia, each and every one of us are playing a part in driving our business forward.

Department Summary

The Creative Solutions department provides a crucial service to the commercial teams allowing them to generate revenue across all Future brands. Our Ideation team provides innovative sales packages and pitching options, and our Production team translates those ideas and produces content that deliver above expectations. The team works across a wide range of projects such as video productions, online content marketing, digital advertising and print and we coordinate with internal departments and third party suppliers to put it all together. It is a fast paced department that offers daily challenges and we have a fantastic team that loves what they do.

Job Summary & Purpose

Using your creative thinking, superior organisational, time management and communication skills you will be responsible for the smooth delivery of projects, big and small. From the moment we receive the brief you will become the point of contact for the client and responsible for distilling that brief into a project plan with a clear set of deliverables. From small studio shoots to large location shoots you will need to put together a team of content creators to deliver on our idea and produce engaging and high quality content that will be distributed across the Future brands.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Capture the scope and spec of work at briefing point and outline any bottle necks, risks or threats to project delivery.
• You will work across internal and external teams so being able to collaborate and build relationships with a range of different people is essential.
• Put together a crew of talented people from photographers, directors, script writers or influencers to deliver content that is on brief and delivers to the clients objectives.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders throughout the lifespan of the project. Keeping all teams working in alignment with each other. Being the linchpin that is needed to keep projects on track.
• Manage a range of complex projects with multi channel deliverables.
• Organise all pre-production requirements such as call sheets, permit application, insurance, talent contracts, IP contracts, mood boards, script creation, freelancer booking etc.
• Pre-sale you will be working with commercial teams and internal planning teams to prepare budgets and costing sheets for bids going to market.
• Post sale, you will be working with internal project management teams to ensure that the assets you create arrive with the PM on time so that they can deliver on their part of the project.
• Managing budgets and spending.
• Amazing client management skills that you use to keep our clients fully briefed on project status, Sending updated tracking documents and attending client status meetings.
• Raising POs, tracking cost, updating and managing budget spreadsheets – updating Senior Management on a weekly basis,

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience with content creation in both video and photography.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of print design and production processes
• Experience of events / experiential / online streaming
• Project management skills with a knowledge of a project management process or methodology
• Knowledge of marketing products, including print, digital, social, newsletters, events etc.
• The ability to think creatively to translate a creative idea in to something that can be produced for the budget and time constraints without compromising the integrity of the initial idea.
• Ability to track and manage projects within the agreed budget
• Campaign reporting, with an ability to write reports for an internal and external audience
• Client facing
• Strong customer services skills
• Experience of commissioning freelance work and an understanding of the contractual and legal requirements of the industry.
• Confidence to manage cross departmental issues and ensure the
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management.
• A desire to get stuck in and get the work done.

Benefits

We are Future

Connectors. Creators. Experience Makers

We’re Future. We’re 2300 colleagues over 200 brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We haven’t just survived in 2020, we’ve thrived, increasing our audience share, taking more number one positions, acquiring new businesses and launching new brands.

And we don’t plan on stopping any time soon.

We’ve got an ambitious plan for 2021 that will build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities. We’re calling it Future 3.0 and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

Inclusion & Diversity

At Future we are passionate about ensuring that as a business, we are continuing to promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do.

Future is an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process will be free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respects all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values which will continue to ensure that all applicants, current and future employees are treated with respect and fairness.

We are continuing to be inclusive in our approach to flexible working, ensuring that we are making adjustments where required and providing our employees the tools and support to enable them to grow and flourish in their careers
Future

About Mint

We’re an independent creative agency made of culture creatures with multidisciplinary expertise across all major marketing disciplines.

Driven by creativity and inspired by humanity, we focus on brand love between companies and people. Our best work is done through true partnership, as an extension of and advisor to our clients. Guided by core structure, we build bespoke teams to collaborate on our client’s individual business problems to produce creative work that makes a positive impact on culture and the future.

Our Values

• Empathy – We believe the work is better when we consider the world through the eyes of others.
• Optimism – We believe in the good above all else; the good in people, the good in the world and the good in our future.
• Audaciousness – We are brave enough to try the untried and unexpected. And we dare to always follow through.
• Progressiveness – We fear status quo, so we break conventions and push to evolve, innovate and disrupt.
• Kindness – We are respectful, honest, transparent, inclusive, social and good to each other.

What we do: Advertising, Design & Branding, Strategy, Social, Digital, Content, Experiential, PR and Talent & Influencer.

The Role

North Star: You will lead the production reputation of Mint by nurturing a culture for producing creative and innovative work at the highest standard, on budget, and on time. You will lead the production department developing high quality producers, and elevating the work the agency produces, while protecting client’s budgets and the agency’s profitability. Working closely with the SLT team, this person will contribute to the overall culture of the agency, and break conventions in the spirit of innovation, progressiveness, and ever changing contexts.

Partner with the senior leadership team to create and manage best-in-industry production in any medium (from film and photography, to experiential and digital).

The Executive Producer will be responsible for the following:

• Establishes the standard for the production team in ways of working, partnerships, and all output
• Promotes and inspires out of the box thinking that breaks conventions and pushed creative work forward
• Train producers of all levels in the understanding that producers must always balance between pragmatism (budget + timeline), while also creating conditions to elevate creative work
• Bring and further develop strong external relationships with the best talent and vendors working; attracting them to our agency, work and productions.
• Mentor, grow and develop producers with Mint’s values in mind and encourage participation, discussion and contribution from all levels
• Train producers of all levels in the understanding that producers must balance, at all times, between pragmatism (budget + timeline) while also creating the conditions that elevate the creative work.
• Establish large production process and templates for the agency
• Educate colleagues throughout the agency to optimize workflows, client relationships, and process to make conditions for great production work
• Working with Mint’s Account and Creative Teams through early and clear communication, set budget expectations and parameters for all client initiatives
• Working with team of Producers to establish and foster relationships throughout the local, national, North American and global production communities (legal bodies, casting agents/talent/performers’ agents + unions, production, post production + audio/music, etc)
• Collaborate with creative teams (ECD, Art Directors, Copywriters, Designers) for productions in order to generate work at the highest standards; as needed
• Financial accountability and management of production department and client productions through budget building, tracking and reconciliation
• Approving completion reports and proper filing for all productions once complete; including making sure final production files are accounted for on the server
• Helps to develop a plan for the execution of ideas, reviewing and editing production proposals from other team members; as needed
• Oversees team of producers while delegating tasks as needed
• Recruitment of best in class talent in the production department
• Finger on the pulse of the best vendors, creatives, and technical experts to partner with; you continuously challenge status quo and bring innovative partners to the creative team to consider (production houses, post-production, freelance talent, etc)

Skills, Abilities and Experience:

• 10+ years experience in a similar role in an agency environment
• Experience running a production department
• Technical understanding of the entire production process
• Think expansively and creatively to inspire a department (and agency)
• Proven track record of exceptional creative work, managing projects on time and on budget
• Strong knowledge of different project management methodologies
• Strong client and vendor-facing skills, including excellent written and verbal communication skills; exceptional attention to detail
• High degree of personal integrity and accountability
• Strong problem solving abilities
• Mentorship strength with ability to teach and grow talent

Mint

Description

Department Summary

The Creative Solutions department provides a crucial service to the commercial teams allowing them to generate revenue across all Future brands. Our Ideation team provides innovative sales packages and pitching options, and our Production team translates those ideas and produces content that deliver above expectations. The team works across a wide range of projects such as video productions, online content marketing, digital advertising and print and we coordinate with internal departments and third party suppliers to put it all together. It is a fast paced department that offers daily challenges and we have a fantastic team that loves what they do.

Wallpaper*

The successful candidate will primarily, but not necessarily exclusively work on Wallpaper*. Wallpaper* is the global design authority, leading the way in architecture, design, art, entertaining beauty & grooming, transport, technology, fashion, and watches & jewellery. Founded as a print magazine in 1996, it has evolved into a multi-channel media brand. With a strong track record of discovering next-generation talents and creative matchmaking, Wallpaper* is at the forefront of the global creative community. It continues to change the way the world thinks about design.

Job Summary & Purpose

Using your creative thinking, superior organisational, time management and communication skills you will be responsible for the smooth delivery of projects, big and small. From the moment we receive the brief you will become the point of contact for the client and responsible for distilling that brief into a project plan with a clear set of deliverables. From small studio shoots to large location shoots you will need to put together a team of content creators to deliver on our idea and produce engaging and high quality content that will be distributed across the Future brands.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Capture the scope and spec of work at briefing point and outline any bottle necks, risks or threats to project delivery.
• You will work across internal and external teams so being able to collaborate and build relationships with a range of different people is essential.
• Put together a crew of talented people from photographers, script writers or influencers to deliver content that is on brief and delivers to the clients objectives.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders throughout the lifespan of the project. Keeping all teams working in alignment with each other. Being the linchpin that is needed to keep projects on track.
• Manage a range of complex projects with multi channel deliverables.
• Organise all pre-production requirements such as call sheets, permit application, insurance, talent contracts, IP contracts, mood boards, script creation, freelancer booking etc.
• Pre-sale you will be working with commercial teams and internal planning teams to prepare budgets and costing sheets for bids going to market.
• Post sale, you will be working with internal project management teams to ensure that the assets you create arrive with the PM on time so that they can deliver on their part of the project.
• Managing budgets and spending.
• Building excellent client relationships and using your commercial acumen to spot opportunities for new projects.
• Amazing client management skills that you use to keep our clients fully briefed on project status, Sending updated tracking documents and attending client status meetings.
• Raising POs, tracking cost, updating and managing budget spreadsheets – updating management on a weekly basis,
• Constantly develop your knowledge of marketing solutions within Future and highlight any opportunities for new product offerings
• Work with the HoD to identify upcoming issues & resource issues
• Be an ambassador for the Creative Solutions department by embodying our values.

Requirements

Essential skills and experience

• Demonstrable experience with content creation in both video and photography.
• Experience of events / experiential / online streaming
• Project management skills with a knowledge of a project management process or methodology
• Knowledge of marketing products, including print, digital, social, newsletters, events etc.
• The ability to think creatively to translate a creative idea in to something that can be produced for the budget and time constraints without compromising the integrity of the initial idea.
• Ability to track and manage projects within the agreed budget
• Campaign reporting, with an ability to write reports for an internal and external audience
• Client facing
• Strong customer services skills
• Experience of commissioning freelance work and an understanding of the contractual and legal requirements of the industry.
• Confidence to manage cross departmental issues and ensure the
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management.
• A desire to get stuck in and get the work done.

Benefits

What will I get in return?

As well as our standard benefits, we have a number of awesome perks available to our staff including:

• Unlimited paid time off (yes you read that right!)
• A share in our success- every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year
• Central office locations with safe working spaces and tonnes of flexibility to work remotely as required
• Discounted digital magazine subscriptions and access to back copies of our print magazines and bookazines
• Annual Future conference – get together with your colleagues to celebrate success and look forward to what’s next
• Regular colleague events arranged by our wonderful Community & Culture committees
• Huge opportunities to learn and develop whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues

We are Future

Connectors. Creators. Experience Makers

We’re Future. We’re 2300 colleagues over 200 brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We haven’t just survived in 2020, we’ve thrived, increasing our audience share, taking more number one positions, acquiring new businesses and launching new brands.

And we don’t plan on stopping any time soon.

We’ve got an ambitious plan for 2021 that will build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities. We’re calling it Future 3.0 and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

Inclusion & Diversity

At Future we are passionate about ensuring that as a business, we are continuing to promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do.

Future is an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process will be free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respects all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values which will continue to ensure that all applicants, current and future employees are treated with respect and fairness.

We are continuing to be inclusive in our approach to flexible working, ensuring that we are making adjustments where required and providing our employees the tools and support to enable them to grow and flourish in their careers
Future

Our client is looking for an experienced producer who will be responsible for working closely with their internal production team to produce digital assets for its social media channels.

Your responsibilities as the Producer include start-to-finish organizing and tracking of video production deliverables; assisting in tracking stakeholder feedback; and managing the production pipeline.

Description

• Manage pipeline, milestones, production schedule, and deliverable tracking.
• Proactively handle day-to-day concerns and troubleshooting of production challenges
• including conflicts in timeline scheduling and talent resources.
• Ensure the standardization of post-production processes across ingest, edit, and
• delivery.
• Foster relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure that we’re delivering against
• asks while crafting an environment that allows for innovation.
• Ability to work unusual hours, as needed.
• Coordinate with team leads to prioritize assignments to post team.
• QA videos and supporting content to ensure accuracy
• Assist team on various projects to help improve the overall processes and workflows
• amongst internal partners.
• Preferred Candidate
• 8 – 10 years experience in video production
• Experience creating and maintaining production schedules and keeping projects on
• track
• Experience in project management and team collaboration tools (Wrike, Quip, Box,
• Slack, etc)
• Strong background in social media platforms and/or the willingness to become an
• expert
• Competencies
• Ability to maintain consistently excellent standards under pressure
• Experience in finding ways to streamline or simplify processes without compromising
• quality
• Extreme attention to detail, combined with the ability to focus only on the details that
• matter
• Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced environment and
• adapt quickly to changing circumstances
• Strategic thinker
• Keep up to date on the latest consumer electronics products, solutions, and related
• technologies.
• Be a collaborative team player who’s fun to work with.

Core Studio

At Think Jam we work on some of the most mind-blowing entertainment IP and franchises in the world. Some are so new and exciting we aren’t even allowed to talk about it! Every day we get to work on, and with, great fandoms and dream properties.

Whether you call yourself a fan, a nerd, a geek, or a part-time historian of animated classics… we need you for a very special, entertainment fashion, and lifestyle project starting January 2022.

We are looking for a creative, proactive and organized producer to deliver outstanding social media content, that spans consumer products, creators, casting, physical shoots, and vertical video — with style, quality, and fun at its core.

The role will see you budget, plan, cast, brief, resource, and produce a range of photo and video shoots, as well as brief and liaise with creators across the US to bring the world of products to life for fans. You’ll be working directly with our Creative Directors and Accounts team to lead on all aspects of production shoots involving products, models, creators, locations, and more. This is a fast-paced hands-on role for a Los Angeles-based creative producer who lives for the worlds of fandom, content and merchandise.

In this role, you will get to:

• Ideate, produce, and deliver social creative executions
• Organize, resource, and implement video and photoshoots
• Collaboration with our social, accounts and creative teams
• Work directly under our Creative Directors
• Build a network of creators across the US
• Budgeting and liaising with third-party vendors
• Delivering quality content that raises the bar for fans

We are looking for someone who has:

• Proven experience in delivering high quality social creative
• Track record in managing and logistics of production shoots
• The ability to deliver a variety of creative deliverables in a dynamic environment.
• Experience with social campaign creative and the social creator landscape
• Great communication and organizational skills
• An aptitude for problem-solving with strong attention to detail

Other information

Think Jam is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. We actively encourage people from all walks of life, including those from historically marginalized groups and non-traditional backgrounds to apply.

We strive to create a great environment and an opportunity to work with an excellent team of people. Our perks include:

• Health insurance package
• Parental leave package
• 15 vacation days; rising 1 per year up to 20 days
• 11 public holidays
• Sick time, plus time off for birthdays, cultural/religious holidays, voting, and charity work.
• 401K facility

Next Steps

To apply, please send a short overview (no more than 2 paragraphs) outlining your experience along with any relevant work experience, content examples, and a resume to [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you.

Think Jam

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