Integrated Producer

Blackjet, a boutique branding & creative consultancy, is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Integrated Producer for our Toronto office. 

The Integrated Producer reports to the VP, Digital & Content. 

Responsibilities include:

• Pioneering the refinement of the production process.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams throughout the lifecycle of the project; establish and set expectations on how the team will work to complete projects and team objectives.
• Manage schedules, budgets, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and project deliverables dates are clearly communicated, understood, and executed upon.
• Work with the accounts team to accurately scope projects, be involved in Discovery, and all stages of traditional & online content projects including dealing w/ actra and non-union talent. 
• Launch and manage multi-platform content marketing campaigns.
• Familiarity working across multiple creative disciplines; experience working with or at advertising agencies. 
• Soft skills: conscientious, entrepreneurial spirit, solid work ethic, organized, and driven.
• A diligent project leader who makes everyone in the team understand exactly what their role is and what is required of them, and holds them accountable to that. 
• Experience working on simultaneous projects for a variety of clients and does so exceptionally without letting the quality of any project suffer.
• Manage resource assignments to the project, and proactively identify resource challenges.
• Work with the creative team to execute creative briefs.
•  Gather bids from vendors, manage and source creative teams.
• Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance.
• Responsible for reporting and bottom-line accountability.
• Work with the Accounts team to consistently manage client expectations, ensure delivery of the highest quality service, and solicit and act on client feedback.
• Communicate and document project status to team members, and management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels.
• Recap and create debriefs for every completed project; facilitate discussions on lessons learned and new knowledge gained; document properly and share.
• Oversee and execute on content collection and content population in Content Management Systems.
• Review and address weekly resourcing requirements as required, replying to triage/status emails with updates.

Requirements

• 5+ years agency producers experience managing projects in an agency environment
• Experience managing project budgets for marketing, creative or technology projects
• Knowledge of production, animation, editing, audio and post-production.
• Solid understanding of production principles
• Understands all facets of both online and traditional productions.
• Demonstrated ability to work within tight deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills; experience developing statements of work and client estimates.
• Strong prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, project management & planning skills.
• A fearless approach to process improvement.

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