About The Job
Do you know film production from the ground up, from creative development through post-production? Can you multi-task and keep multi-threaded slacks, emails, and text chains tamed and in-check while you’re bidding on a new commercial? Can you bring new ideas to the table for how to optimize production workflows? Can you decode what the heck a director has inside their head and get it on screen? Then we want to talk to you.
We are adding a staff producer to the Ghost Robot team. Someone who understands that every project’s budget and every production’s challenges will be different. Someone who knows in their heart that there are solutions for every one of those challenges and we can find them, implement them, and support our teams and our clients simultaneously.
Ghost Robot is the creative studio of the future. Over the past 15 years, Ghost Robot has established itself as an industry leader in creative production with a body of work that is instantly recognizable and admired by both creators and clients.
We bring together the best of commercials, entertainment, immersive media, and telepathy to create world-class content that blurs the line between advertising and originality.
At the core of Ghost Robot’s success is a nimble production and post-production infrastructure that can support projects of any kind, regardless of the scope or medium. The close-knit team is run more like a family, built upon an ethos of personal expression, collaboration, and exploration that allows us to generate artistic solutions to nearly any creative problem.
As a producer, you are a key player in bringing all our projects to life and giving our clients a reason to come back and do it again.
If you think you have what it takes to join the Ghost Robot family and you’re ready to produce awesome work, let’s talk.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Ghost Robot is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or age.
Responsibilities
- Scope projects, schedules, and build budgets/bids from client briefs and director treatments. Communicate potential solutions and approaches that unify the directors’ vision with the clients’ priorities.
- Lead live-action film, video, and mixed media productions from development through delivery, and often, re-delivery.
- Understand what makes a pitch effective and how to position the Ghost Robot team to win projects.
- Identify milestones and manage director, agency, and client expectations throughout the project lifecycle to ensure clarity and success well before delivery.
- Negotiate competitive rates with vendors and partners to keep projects on or under budget and within schedule constraints.
- Book, coordinate, and motivate teams between 4 and 40+ collaborators, in different timezones, to meet accelerated deadlines, while also maintaining everyone’s sanity and positivity.
- Maintain Ghost Robot’s reputation for being nice humans and generally good to work with.
- Contribute to our growing and diverse network and database of artists, makers, freelancers, and technicians to ensure we have the best and most relevant teams to maintain an elevated quality of work.
- Tie up projects with a neat bow so that another person could pick it up quickly and clearly. Wrap financials and manage extensive numbers of deliverables with ease.
- Keep up with industry trends, technology developments, and emerging content models and concepts.
- Adapt to a constantly changing global pandemic and the new production workflows, so we can maintain creative output in the Covid-19 era while keeping crews safe and contained.
Qualifications
- 3 or more years of experience as a creative producer, post producer or line producer in a live-action production environment or full-service post-production company, with an understanding of various post workflows (editorial, animation, CG, finishing).
- You must have bidding experience.
- Must have super-hero strength organizational and spreadsheet skills.
- Highly motivated, self-starter who owns the work and is accountable to clients and team members alike.
- Able to keep a flexible & adaptive mindset – maintain a level head in challenging situations and mediate solutions and solve problems.
- Exemplary written and verbal communication skills. Understands the distinction between when a conversation is best had over the phone or by email, and how to do so efficiently. Asks all the right questions to avoid potential bottlenecks, and has a light touch in difficult conversations.
- Develops strong working relationships and personal connections inside and outside of Ghost Robot – whether clients, freelancers, vendors or collaborators – of all imaginable personality types.
- Media Services Showbiz Budgeting, Airtable, Adobe Creative Suite, G-Suite knowledge a plus.
- Strong understanding of production accounting workflows, purchase orders, invoicing, and talent contract negotiations.
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