TBWAMedia Arts Lab (or MAL as you’ll hear us called) is the bespoke global advertising agency dedicated solely to Apple. Our mission is to create smart, simple and iconic work that transforms business and makes culture for the world’s best brand.
We believe that what MAL creates belongs to everyone; and everyone belongs at MAL. We think creativity lives in open, safe and brave spaces, where diverse perspectives can come together, free of prejudice and discrimination. We strive to be a partnership of equals. Everyone has a role to play here, and we invite you to bring your fully authentic and crazy selves to this space. Together, we’ll do the best work we’ve ever done.
We’re headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with 5 international hubs and over 700 people making great work for Apple in 26 markets around the globe. We’d love to meet you!
An Executive Producer at MAL must be a natural leader; perpetuating MAL culture and setting the example for what a MAL producer should be. This role requires innovative thinking and a hands-on approach. We want someone who can lead a team, has a strong understanding of the technical side of digital production and who can foster flawless execution in production. This person should have deep connections in the digital world, a highly collaborative attitude, and a commitment to doing whatever it takes to make great work.
The Work
- Serve as a key partner to Account, Creative, Strategy and Media counterparts
- Collaborate across all disciplines to ensure digital advertising is represented and stays parallel to traditional creative
development process:
- Work with internal creative and production teams to determine the best ways forward
- Oversee and adequately communicate production realities
- Create production timelines and budgets
feedback & balanced workloads to grow appropriately
- Manage a portfolio of work:
- Manage multiple work streams simultaneously
- Review all project briefs for timing and resource assignments
- Provide prioritization guidance for project teams
- Evaluate vendor needs and manage accordingly
- Cultivate relationships with creative and strategic teams to help them understand the limitations, possibilities and ongoing learnings within the digital space
- Work closely with Media on domestic and global media plans to determine the appropriate strategy for each creative launch and ensure flawless technical execution on each build
- Create, shepherd, and champion ideas – partner with Creative Technologists to continually push the limits for what’s possible and help expand our technology practices
- Develop a deep understanding of agency processes, tools, and capabilities to get the work done effectively and efficiently. Beyond this, think outside of the box to problem solve new work processes & solutions that may not be the ‘norm’.
- Responsible for handling challenging conversations through the production process
- Collaboration & People Management:
- Maintain strong, trusting, open relationships with internal departments & global MAL counterparts
- Manage vendor relationships; including active evaluation of new vendors
- Ensure proper training of production team within the pod & share best practices or learnings within the department
- Model exemplary time management and communication skills to producers
- Partner with other EPs on producer staffing, training and development for the team
- Actively track progress of producers through regular performance check-ins, ensuring they have clear goals, direct
Who will thrive in this role?
- Someone with an unrelenting ambition to create smart, simple, iconic work for our client.
- A master communicator – someone who can give clear direction and support to the team and client
- Must be a proven leader who can handle programmatic management of multiple complex work streams at once, meet deliverables, create budgets and manage resources
- Must have experience in the online space and advertising deliverables; static and animated banners, rich media, website development and social activations. global localization experience a plus.
- Someone with the ability to keep teams motivated and positive
- A champion of DEI, with the understanding that the expectation of DEI for leaders at MAL is that it is a responsibility and not just a
passion.
- Someone who is mature and unflappable under pressure and tight deadlines, with an art for dealing with conflict resolution
- Someone with the ability to turn lessons learned from each project and experience into training tools & growth opportunities
- Someone who strives to get the job done cooperatively, respectfully and with a great attitude
- Someone who participates in and contributes to agency culture
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