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At Drive Social Media, we use real information about our clients’ businesses, and their customers, to create custom paid social media campaigns that are optimized for sales. We analyze clients’ data to learn who the customer is, why they are making their purchase, why they come back for more, and how the business should market to them with a goal of maximizing return on investment. ROI or DIE, all the way.

The Director of Videography/Photography (DVP), shoots compelling and engaging film, multimedia, and still content to support Drive Social Media’s digital marketing efforts. Simultaneously creating the visual dynamics of mood, tone, and style; in films and photo projects. Together with the videography/photography team members, the DVP coordinates the technical aspects of the film and photo process, such as lighting, visual effects, camera angles, and shots; to achieve the desired look for a particular project. Equally comfortable and productive, whether working autonomously or collaboratively in a daily role. Job duties also include location scouting, maintaining equipment, maintaining department’s budget, supervising direct reports, project management, and recruiting talent. Need to have a great eye for detail, strong leadership, ability to pivot, and excellent cross functional communication/collaboration skills.

• Please be advised – this position is in office, and does not allow for remote work*

Locations:

St. Louis, MO (headquarters)

Nashville, TN

Miami, FL

Responsibilities

• Oversees the creative direction, vision, planning, and execution of all videography and photography across all four the Drive Social Media offices (and growing!); in partnership with internal creative stakeholders and executive leadership – executing high level deliverables to the agency’s client partners.
• Responsible for collaborating on the department’s creative vision for each project including collaborating on shotlists/storyboards, providing creative input on shoots, post & music, working with directors, and other department leads, to execute video/photo vision
• Collaborates with business stakeholders: Director of Copy, Director of Graphics, Directors of Strategy, and Executive leadership; ensuring accurate representation of agency’s creative media in 400+ client presentations and strategy discussions
• Creates clear, differentiated, high-standards and scalable vision for video/photo creative within the organization
• Must be able to effectively articulate vision, present, and explain creative decisions/rationale to key internal stakeholders and external partners
• Directs the daily creative video/photo workflow to support agency creative goals and strategic workflows
• Oversees multiple projects through all stages of development, asset and content creation, from concept through to production, post, and final delivery
• Superior organizational skills, especially with large volumes of digital visual content including video and photo assets.
• Ability to problem-solve, think creatively, and offer solutions to get the job done when things don’t go as planned.
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders at all levels of an organization with sometimes competing interests and using feedback to create a superior product.
• Comfortable working against short deadlines and in live settings
• Instills a passion for collaboration and teamwork throughout the department
• Collaborates on, and guides, the day to day work of all direct reports, giving them critical feedback and leading the generation of stellar ideas
• Manages and mentors agency’s video/photography teams, creating effective and well branded, cross-channel digital first creative
• Attracts and develop top creative talent as this role will have direct management responsibilities
• Coaches team members on presentation skills, interfacing with Sr. Leaders and client executive stakeholders
• Stays abreast of content and technology trends in the entertainment, video production, photography, motion graphic communities, and suggests new ways to implement these into the agencies process
• Cross functional team player – pitching in and delivering work wherever needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field required
• 7+ years of exceptional skill and collaboration with photography, videography and design teams in concepting compelling campaigns with a digital first mindset, for social media marketing campaigns
• Possess an outstanding portfolio with multiple industry touchpoints, with a variety of deliverables represented
• Expert knowledge in photo and video principles; strong visual design sense, knowledge of typography & layout skills, keen eye for detail and brand identity awareness
• Experience working with marketing teams and demonstrated flexibility in management of creative execution needs, and ability to positively respond to critique/feedback
• Strong conceptual, communication, and critical thinking skills
• Fluency in current marketing practices and Adobe CC Suite; primarily Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, and Premier Pro (bonus for Media Encoder)
• Self-disciplined and motivated in a fast-paced environment that requires creativity, strong attention to detail, resourcefulness and organization
• Self-starter, positive attitude, sense of humor, and can work independently and values collaboration and feedback
• A true creative leader that sets an encouraging tone for the team, a collaborative spirit and a willingness to roll up sleeves when necessary to ensure that work gets done
• Interest and enthusiasm for small and medium size businesses, and making a positive impact for their digital presence.

Benefits

• Salary, plus quarterly bonuses based upon customer retention
• Eligible for full health, dental, vision benefits within the first 90 days of employment
• Drive pays 100% of premiums for STD, LTD, and Life Insurance
• 401k with up to a four percent match after your first full year at Drive
• Agile and fast paced environment
• Parking not included – but we’ve done the research and can help you locate a spot!

Drive Social Media

Ramp is building the world’s first finance automation platform designed to save businesses time and money. Ramp offers 5-in-1 software that consolidates corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting, and reporting into one simple and free solution. More than 2,000 businesses are using Ramp for over $1 billion in annualized transaction volume. Customers include some of the fastest growing startups and unicorns like Ro, DoNotPay, ClickUp, and Applied Intuition, as well as established businesses across the US such as Bristol Hospice, Walther Farms, Douglas Elliman, and Planned Parenthood.

Founded in 2019 Ramp is NYC’s fastest growing startup, having achieved a unicorn valuation of $3.9 billion in just over 2 years. Ramp has raised $620 million in funding from investors including Founders Fund, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. Ramp is part of the Forbes Fintech 50 and Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators program.

About The Role

Join our growing Brand Studio as a 1st Senior Producer, partnering directly with our Head of Design Operations! You’ll own driving and managing cross-functional creative projects, establishing workflows and creative production processes. You are a critical thinker, a proactive problem solver, a strong communicator, and a perfectionist. The ideal candidate is constantly finding ways to improve the creative output of the team by taking a fluid and iterative approach to production management processes.

What You’ll Do

• Own the lifecycle of creative initiatives, cross-channel project management processes, from brief to kickoff, through final delivery, and implementation
• Liaise with the marketing team to ensure initiatives are properly briefed with resourcing plans
• Guide projects from beginning to end, ensuring that agreed upon deliverables are executed to spec and on delivered on time
• Guide and direct projects—successfully intaking, planning, managing, facilitating, and routing creative work
• Participate in and facilitate priorities meetings, stand-ups, design reviews, and retros in order to keep all projects on time and high quality
• Organize and document creative approvals and decisions from meetings and ensure follow-through
• Maintain a deep understanding of every designer’s and writer’s strengths, and work with teams to delegate project work accordingly
• Demonstrate an understanding of our product and brand, and be an ambassador for operations at Ramp
• Proactively identify and elevate potential issues and delays to stakeholders and provide thoughtful solutions
• Communicate and coordinate with internal stakeholders and external vendors, agencies, and partners to define timelines, specifications, budgets, contracts, and approvals
• You have proven experience and success with live action shoots, animation, photography shoots, digital projects, events, talent and contract negotiation and licensing.
• Track and facilitate team goal-setting and achievements
• You navigate ambiguity with confidence, comfortable juggling several projects, and working independently.

What You Need

• Minimum 5 years of creative operations experience within tech/startup environments
• Minimum 5 years of experience partnering with in-house creative and/or brand teams
• Strong organizational and proactive problem solving skills
• Strong understanding of how creative teams work
• Ability to work on multiple projects, fast timelines and partner effectively with different personalities
• Highly meticulous and detail oriented

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Asana or other project management tools
• Understanding of Figma
• Experience at a high-growth startup

Ramp Benefits (for U.S. Based Employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
• Partially covered for your dependents
• 401k (including employer match)
• Parental Leave
• Unlimited PTO
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Annual education reimbursement
• Relocation support

Ramp

— PROFIT SHARING / COMMISSION BASED CONTRACT —

The project:

We are producing an indie film starring TikTok influencers with audience sizes over 1m using their audiences to guarantee ticket sales. We have received 2 financial offers in excess of $1m to fund the film. We’re best off co-producing the feature with a major French studio- and to do so, we need to show them a 12 minute treatment. We’re launching a viral marketing campaign for crowdfunding, in order to shoot the treatment. Pitch deck available upon request.

What we’re looking for:

A motivated candidate with strong leadership, organizational, and intrapersonal skills. The ideal candidate is comfortable supervising team leaders, can pitch their own viral marketing projects to generate crowdfunding, and is an autonomous, out-of-the-box thinker. We’re looking for someone with the ambition to make themselves thousands of dollars every weekend for high-level, creative work.

Do you have interesting ways to reach our target audience? Do you have ideas for using interns to generate buzz on social media? Can you manage a field marketing campaign? Pitch us good ways to presell tickets (and other stuff), and we’ll pay you a commission to execute them.

Core responsibilities:

+ Supervise sales leaders, who will lead groups of interns in viral marketing campaigns on the ground

+ Ensure a steady inflow of motivated interns (who are paid on commission)

+ Design and execute new viral marketing campaigns

+ Ensure talented interns are rapidly promoted

+ Continually interview for new, talented sales leaders

+ Develop our crowdfunding strategy

+ Crowdfund creatively with a massive labor pool

+ Ensure consumer fulfillment

To Apply:

Cover letter recommended, written as a pitch letter. How do you plan to capitalize our program?

From Our Mind to Yours, LLC

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years professional production experience with developing content across disciplines (design, animation, video, digital media, etc.) with a heavy emphasis on Post-Production Video & Digital Content
• Social media content production experience
• Ability to juggle and complete competing projects and deadlines.
• Your schedule is flexible, and you are willing to put in extra hours when necessary to ensure deadlines are hit.
• Are a rock star at managing and prioritizing long-term accounts.
• Quick turn project management is a strong attribute
• Workflow experience from the camera to delivery.
• Vast understanding of all technical details pertaining to syncing audio, frame rates, etc.
• Knowledge and work experience with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps – Premiere, Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop.

ROLE

• Manage project workflow from kick-off to final delivery meeting deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Collaborate with our clients to understand their needs and then guide our creative team to produce work that aligns with our client’s goals
• Keep track of hours and expenses for projects you produce and be ready to report on status to client or management at any time.
• Engage and negotiate with talent, crew, vendors, and freelancers as needed.
• Issue and collect any legal forms (releases, insurance certs, etc.), depending on each project’s needs.
• Manage expectations and communications with all internal and external teams.

VMG Studios

As a freelance assistant producer at ZINC Network, you are responsible for facilitating the production of short-form video content and influencer content for an exciting new campaign.

Based in London and reporting to the Producer, you will be responsible for suggesting and researching stories; setting up shoots in different countries; organising logistics; assisting on location as required; and overseeing edits. You may also be asked to write scripts and keep production trackers and schedules updated. You will also be responsible for helping find and onboard influencers, presenters, and other talent to take part in the campaign.

With a passion for YouTube and social media and several years’ experience of video and TV production at a professional level, you will be resourceful, curious, and brimming with ideas.

You will also be passionate about politics and social issues, and able to communicate them in a simple and effective way. Your first-class research and production skills will ensure that content for the campaign is creative, editorially robust and fits the brief. This is a fast-paced campaign with an intense production schedule, so you’ll need to be organised, efficient and with a can-do attitude to meeting deadlines.

You are expected to:

• Generate creative short-form video ideas
• Research stories, contributors, and archive
• Write scripts as required
• Coordinate with local production team, contributors, influencers, and partners
• Organise logistics of shoots
• Maintain schedules and trackers
• Prepare PowerPoints
• Oversee edits as required
• Assist on shoots as required
• Help identify and onboard relevant influencers for the project
• Work with the influencers to shape their ideas and edits
• Build and maintain an excellent relationship with our influencers, including troubleshooting where problems arise
• Identify relevant news stories and video trends

Requirements

• Understanding of YouTube and other social media platforms, video production, and current affairs
• Excellent research skills
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Excellent scripting and edit production skills
• Ability to quickly build warm and authentic relationships
• Positive and flexible ‘can-do’ attitude and willingness to solve problems
• Attention to detail
• It would be great if you also had:
• Experience in journalism
• Experience in YouTube or Facebook video production

Zinc Network

ABOUT JOE

JOE is the UK’s leading media and entertainment brand for men, with a global audience of 13 million across all platforms. We’ve pioneered the way content and storytelling speaks to and represents our audience and we’ve been recognised with accolades and awards for our creativity and originality. 

Awarded the Drum Content Creator of the year and DigiDays’ publisher of the year, we’re proud to be free-thinking, flag-flying unorthodox storytellers for the modern man. Our content influences, informs and inspires men from every corner of the UK, and knits them together in a community of empowerment and inclusivity.

From current affairs to sports, we have access to some of the biggest names, as well as partnering with many of the world’s leading brands (Coca-Cola, Adidas, FA and the BBC, to name a few). 

We are one of the UK’s most influential and respected publishers, and would not have built our position in the industry without the creativity, originality and instincts of our team. We’re in a rapid growth stage right now, with some incredible projects on the horizon and we’re looking for an experienced Creative Producer – Branded Content to step in and help shape and deliver award winning branded content campaigns. 

THE ROLE

The creative department at JOE Media is at the heart of all branded content delivered across the JOE portfolio.  We are proud to be one of the leading social publishers and we are dedicated to working with brands and clients that want to take their social and video content to a new level of innovation and creativity.

The role of the Creative Producer – Branded Content is a vital position, accountable for taking pitch winning creative ideas through to the finished asset.  You’ll be working very closely with the creative, production management and production teams as well as external resources and internal stakeholders to seamlessly deliver social first video content that consistently delivers on brief. 

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Communicating the creative vision clearly to production management, helping deliver accurate budgeting for all branded content video concepts. 
• Manage multiple projects from pre-production to TX, ensuring production pipelines are carried out effectively on all projects
• Helping prep and attend all video shoots with responsibility for making sure that the end product is in line with the creative treatment.
• Spotting opportunities during shoots to elevate the content and capture unplanned beats that will explode across multiple platforms. 
• Record and supply accurate time codes, liaising with the creative lead.
• Brief the assigned editors on the project up to first cut for Director/Head of Creative review
• Participate in calls/meetings with internal and external stakeholders where concepts and pitches are discussed and developed
• Supporting the Head of Creative, Senior Producer and fellow Producers and Director across production related tasks when necessary
• Drawing up detailed video production treatments, liaising with the creative and production department 
• Work without supervision to juggle multiple projects and confidently deliver on time. 
• Ensure there are on set log notes to hand post shoot
• Problem-solving and communicating between inter-departmental teams during the production process
• Improve the implementation and execution of production best practices

Who we’re looking for

• 3+ yrs experience as a Producer at a production company, social agency or publisher.
• 3+ yrs experience working on Social Video Productions.
• Confident with various filming techniques, cameras and post production tools.
• Experience working on commercial branded content.
• Experience casting talent, and hiring freelancers
• Understanding of content from an editorial POV as well as a brand/client POV – being committed to respect the audience and get the brand’s tone of voice
• Demonstrable working exposure and knowledge of video pre-production, production and post-production, including workflows and processes, equipment and software programs/tools

SALARY & BENEFITS

Competitive Salary 

Health Insurance

25 days holiday

Free Headspace Subscription

JOE Media

Movie Idea

Remember that movie called “Strange Days” with Juliette Lewis and Ralph Fiennes?

So, the idea is a kinda like a remake, but with nowadays technology, with VR goggles, Metaverse and Criptocurrencies.

Like the black market of our own, not so far, future.

And before you think about “Ready Player One”  it’s not a Adventure movie, but Crime and Drama, just like the movie I mentioned before.

Job Description

Goal Overview

To oversee the episodic assistants while providing support for production.

Associate Producer Responsibilities

Production Support

• Firsthand communication with Producers upon arrival and throughout the day.
• Keep the production team up to date on project status.
• Generate prep and post status reports.
• Working with the production team to manage project SAN space.

Assistants Team

• Ensure your assists have all the information and elements require to perform and complete their tasks.
• Evaluate and reprioritize tasks as needed to accommodate changes in the daily schedule.
• Organize your assistants’ tasks to ensure projects meet their deadlines.

Preparations for Projects/Sessions

• Assist producers in WO and task creation, job spec wrangling
• Actualizing and billing out work orders.
• Confirm all material needed for project has arrived and has been forwarded to the appropriate individual(s)
• Interface with client if required materials for jobs are missing (i.e. rough cut, drives, etc.)
• Coordinate with Operations the rental and installations of any additional resources needed for projects.

Execution of Job

• Ensure all resources assigned to job are available as scheduled
• Make sure projects are ready for sessions to begin on time.
• Verifying project prep for any issues and/or missing items, and communicating them with the Producer and client.
• Communicate all session changes to Producer
• Work with Producer and assistants to troubleshoot any session related problems
• Assist in greeting and escorting clients to the bays upon arrival.
• Assist in checking in on artists, clients, assists, and client services on a regular basis to make sure the session is well supported. The client should feel the producer’s presence and know that you are taking care of them.

Final Delivery

• Work with the vault to ensure delivery specs have been met
• Notify the Producer if any delivery deadlines that will or are in jeopardy of being missed
• Coordinate the archive of final VAM and CCM

Final Billing

• Ensuring all work orders and tasks are filled out and submitted, following up where needed.
• Actualize work orders for Producers sign off.

Virtual Sessions

• Setting up test feeds prior to session, including all face to face virtual interaction.
• Communicating with our Engineers if any network issues arise.

Engineering

• Engage Engineering staff to resolve urgent technical problems
• Ensure all rental resources are set-up and tested

Requirements / Background

• 2 year TV Post Production
• Knowledge of digital capture cameras and files
• Background and/or knowledge of offline editing
• Avid and/or FCP experience
• File based workflow experience
• Media Pulse and/ or post production scheduling software experience
• Post scheduling experience

Company 3

The role

Supporting Brand delivery performance.

Responsibilities

Executive responsibilities

· Alongside with Project director responsible for shape/structure of Producer team

· SME on broadcast and moving image for new business opportunities

· Improvement and development of department and model to lead an innovative and client focused team

· Aware of, and suggesting, technology and process improvements to develop team and solution

· Thorough planning and preparation with client services for campaigns through foresight of upcoming work

· Working with the agency on pre-production guidance and attendance, creation of master assets and campaign handovers with the account teams and senior producer

· Preparation of cost estimates / set up costs

· Responsible for Creative output and quality of output across portfolio

· Producing creative post work, simple shoots

· Overview of portfolio of accounts they oversee

· Client facing, liaising with both agencies and clients for the global and local markets

· Involved in Pre-Production Meetings with Agencies and Clients, advising on how best to shoot and master their final assets for Global Adaptations

· Advising on post requirements ahead of a shoot where necessary

· Briefing ops with campaign set-ups to facilitate localisation

· Pitching on the post for new campaign briefs

· Ensure team are engaged and motivated

Producing

· Day-to-day responsibility for managing projects

· Involved in new campaign briefing as required

· Interpreting and consolidation of client briefs

· Managing project timelines

· Providing clients with rate card cost estimates and timelines for all deliveries highlighting any risks and dependencies in meeting agreed deadlines, alongside any additional information you may require to execute the brief

· Identify and advise the client of any issues concerning their Creative Agency and delivery of master files, and how these could be resolved for the benefit of the client

· Briefing projects in to the various internal teams, transcreation, VO, business affairs where necessary

· Facilitate multi-channel briefs

· Responsible for the end to end management of all local briefs

· Manage, book and record VO sessions and manage the usage

· Maintain an up to date internal status sheet of all live briefs and work in production

· Ensure any broadcast related tasks are in progress and will meet timelines such as clearance, broadcast codes and usage negotiation

· Where required, ensure on behalf of the client via business affairs that usage rights are secured as per brief, advise clients when usage rights are due to expire

· Be the client’s subject matter expert, assisting with any queries, and advising how best to ensure briefs are delivered to the highest quality in the shortest timeframe

· Based on experience view overall project and decide best route for work, 3D/AE/Flame

· Book & brief 2D and 3D operators.

· Book and direct sound mixes

· Creating bespoke post production solution where required

· Scheduling all elements of the production including editors and sound mixing

· Ensuring all output meets client requirements, has been through QC and is approved before release to the client.

· Answering client technical queries or liaising with operators or technical staff to obtain and provide requested information

· Where necessary estimating VFX/project work off rate card

· Accurate estimating, billing and reconciling jobs, requesting PO’s and creating 3rd party PO’s

· Where opportunities arise, seek to cross sell Tag capability across channels, and into the post production of the TVC master asset

· There may be a requirement to attend face-to-face briefings with clients offsite, as well as assisting with hosting clients who attend our offices in person to oversee the execution of any briefs

· Attend campaign ‘wash-up’ meetings with clients to identify future learnings to be applied to the following campaigns and build further relationships with clients

· Coach and Mentor team members, adding to a positive atmosphere with a can-do attitude

Client Development

· Develop, maintain and extend client relationships

· Manage client expectations in relation to project objectives, timelines and budgets

· Work to gain a strong understanding of the clients business

· Build strong working relationships with clients on a daily basis

Technology

· To use requested client software and/or CMD, Di, ATLAS and internal trackers to manage all elements of the client processes as agreed.

· To keep the system updated with specifications, status and costs as required.

Client Specific

· Develop an understanding of the full end-to-end campaign process and the client brand

· To consult and drive the client to the awareness of new technologies and other Tag service lines

· To develop an understanding of the client industry, products and competitors

· To develop strong client relationships within the client base

· Act as the link with other Tag business areas

Skills and Experience required

· A friendly, positive team player

· Leadership experience, with gravitas within company/industry

· 7 plus year’s experience in a post-production environment, preferably within commercials/advertising

· Familiar with all broadcast software and programmes

· Strong interpersonal/communication skills

· Pro-active

· Exceptional client facing skills

· Committed to high-quality output and service, with an eye for detail

· Strong organizational skills, with the ability to multi task

· Good analytical and numerical skills

· Able to handle challenging situations and act appropriately

· IT literate

· Confident but not arrogant

Measures of Performance

· Retention of the accounts

· Increase in % client revenue over reviewed calendar year

· Improving or maintaining ‘green level’ customer satisfaction scores

· Improved internal processes measured by productivity score

· Promotion and development of team

· Less than 3% of jobs past material date whilst in production

· 0% of jobs booked in without a job route

· 0% of jobs booked in without client PO supplied

· 0% of jobs unbilled 30 days past material date

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