SENIOR PRODUCER
Los Angeles or West Coast Market
Agency Overview
Corso Marketing Group is an award-winning experiential and strategic creative agency specializing in solving brand challenges. We work on everything from strategy to onsite activations. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, CMG has earned a reputation for delivering quality results. We are a team of creators, innovators, and dreamers who work collaboratively across multiple disciplines in order to create meaningful relationships and memorable experiences.
What You Will Do
As the Senior Producer, you will be responsible for leading the successful development and activation of a wide range of programs from builds of custom designed spaces around the country to activations at the world’s biggest music festivals, sporting events and owned experiences. You will manage strategic experiential marketing activation plans, collaboration with internal agency teams (creative, strategy, digital) alongside our clients, vendors, and partner agencies to align the expectations of clients with the execution of creative work. This role reports to the Chief Production Officer.
Travel to on-site events is estimated at 40%.
Expected Results
You will be successful if you are able to:
- Serve as the key contact for day-to-day experiential projects: managing communications, plans, creative, production, budgets and timing and serving as the central touch point for questions, strategic guidance and support for internal and client teams
- Exceptionally adept at quickly researching vendors, materials and assets identified for programs to determine feasibility and pricing
- Strategically advise the client on smart, impactful, and scalable experiential programs
- Ability to manage, in an organized manner, current decks, designs and details to ensure that vendors and colleagues are working off of the most recent information
- Baseline ability to use Vectorworks, Sketchup, AutoCAD or similar drawing programs to create scaled 2D layouts
- Collaborate with Creative and Client Services leads on projects, proposals or new business development opportunities to help define the scope and scale of the assignment for core team members
- Lead the Live Production team; overseeing multiple program budgets and project schedules
- Bring production builds in on budget
- Maintain your integrity and protect the reputation of CMG and client regardless of the stress and intensity of the event/build environment in which you are working
- Be exceptionally adept at creating production schedules that you and a team will work off of to execute a project
- Have familiarity with Permitting and the permit process for the Live Event industry, having worked with municipalities or permitting entities and have the ability to produce necessary civic documents and supporting paperwork to support and secure Permits for a given project.
- Must have the ability to take accurate field measurements and share out that information with measurements and pictures to support the creative services and Client services team to move forward efficiently with designs and sharing of information with clients
- Be a proactive thinker who is able to excel in a collaborative, team based, environment that works quickly
- Bottom line – a production rock star capable of creating schedules and production budgets based on available information in order to help CMG meet the needs of a growing client base. You are a person capable of generating critical production documentation – not simply act upon work that is handed to you
Who You Are
Passionate – You love your work and strive to work with the best in the business, always looking for that next challenge in the projects you are working on. You want to continue to produce world class experiences and are always looking for what’s next!
Versatile – You are able to switch gears quickly to meet client or organizational needs! You are action oriented and approach work with a “can do” attitude.
Delivery – You produce with excellence in all your areas of focus for the client, the project you are assigned and the CMG team. You love numbers and budgets. You’re equally fixated at keeping projects on schedule as well as on budget.
Solutions Oriented – You are a proactive thinker, smart and creative in bringing ideas to solve problems.
Initiative – You identify and clearly communicate to your teams and client contacts what needs to be done and when with the ability to act on it before being asked!
Account Development and Growth – Through in-depth business, industry and client knowledge, you drive forward thinking approaches and concepts aligned to and anticipating client’s needs and objectives enabling agency differentiation, identification of new areas for growth and client satisfaction.
Relationship Builder – You develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside the client organization. Your purpose is to identify new stakeholders, manage client expectations, define new business opportunities and deliver against clients’ needs while skillfully balancing the needs of the client and those of the agency.
Leadership – You have a knack for leading multiple projects, juggling teams and ensuring all is being delivered with quality!
Team Collaboration – You are a leader adept at identification, mentoring of skills and resources required to build agency teams that deliver predictable, repeatable business value and operating models.
What You Need
- Education: College degree preferred but not mandatory, relevant study areas would include theater, film/video, business, theater/technical design, project management, marketing or other transferable education. Relevant production experience will be combined with your track record of success
- 5-7+ years of Live Event Production experience
- Strong skills in creating and managing program budgets
- Knowledgeable in theatrical and technical staging (lighting, audio, video and scenic) a plus
- Knowledgeable in the use of social media and technology integration in live events a plus
- Knowledgeable in video production, presentation graphics, digital media and printed graphics a plus
- Solid reputation as a Production Leader with past clients, employers, suppliers and staff/crews
- Proficient in Google Suite, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and research via the web
CMG is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We offer a flexible working environment and great benefits, including health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k), flex time off and more.
This position will be based on experience and qualified candidates for this position must be based in a West Coast Market (Los Angeles preferred).
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