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Senior Producer, Integrated Production

Company Description

dentsumcgarrybowen is a global creative agency delivering idea-led brand transformation at scale. This new entity brings together dentsu and mcgarrybowen to form a world-class creative powerhouse that now spans 33 locations in 24 markets. Dentsumcgarrybowen delivers creative expertise and innovative global solutions for clients, applying big platform thinking to bring ideas to life and deliver world-class creative solutions to meet consumer touch points and work across geographies, cultures, and channels. It gives us great pride to work with the world’s most iconic companies, including Ajinomoto, American Express, Asahi Breweries, Canon, Disney, Hershey, Kao, Marriott, Shiseido, Subway, The Coca-Cola Company, Toyota, and United Airlines

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all. dentsumcgarrybowen is an agency of dentsu.

Job Description

The Senior Integrated Producer leads large integrated projects and is responsible for their creative and business success. Taking the creative vision to a new level, whilst staying on time and on budget, and meeting client business challenges in a way that demonstrates versatility, creativity and impressive problem-solving skills. Should strive to flawlessly execute the work and relentlessly pursue the highest level of craft.

Responsibilities

  • Elevate the creative; Find versatile solutions to keep good ideas alive. Lead the evolution of creative concepts into even stronger executions.
  • Mentor junior talent and other disciplines
  • Maintain existing network of preferred partners and contacts of go-to resources for creating any manner of project (vendors, artists, agents etc). Keep agency preferred partner list up to date.
  • Lead the vetting process on mid-large productions to accurately scope projects while defining requirements, deliverables and success metrics. Determine whether ideas are feasible within the project parameters (time and money), and providing creative solutions as needed.
  • Lead the execution of large integrated production (>$500) including development of SOWs and effective risk management, overseeing large multi-discipline teams, vendor procurement and management, and ensuring overall quality of work with multiple deliverables and multiple workstreams.
  • Track and Actualize budgets per toolkit structure.
  • Coordinate meetings, notes, hot sheets, status reports, task lists, etc. per toolkit structure.
  • Develop and manage multiple project timelines and resources. per toolkit structure.
  • Have the foresight to see a project’s trajectory and put a plan in place to get ahead of its development. Being strategic and not only tactical and reactionary.
  • Serve as the point person for all day-to-day internal and vendor communications. Be the backbone of the production and a confident leader for the group. Ensure that all key stakeholders are kept informed and (if needed) educated on the production process.
  • Manage interdisciplinary teams of art directors, copywriters, designers account, PM, editors, animators, tech leads, UX-designers, and developers.
  • Lead and document post-summary meetings and suggesting ways to instill learnings within the department and across disciplines.
  • First line of defense on evaluating when and what needs; permits, releases, usage terms and other rights clearances.
  • Build strong relationships with Business Affairs as a partner in discovery and through the production process.
  • Apply grace under fire, inspiring confidence within the agency and client teams that production is in control, on-time, on-budget and always versatile in finding solutions

Skills & Characteristics

  • Passion for the craft of production and creativity
  • Excellent time management and organizational skills.
  • Effective presentation and communication skills as evidenced by the ability to develop presentations and speak to large audiences including senior level clients.
  • Positive spirits and a force to be reckoned with.
  • Proactive with strong problem-solving skills; responsive and versatile to evolving ideas, responsibilities and changing environments
  • Genuine interest in art, culture and lifestyle; moving art, dance, technology arts, still art, sculpture, music, fashion etc.
  • Emotional intelligence – Have a good sense of diplomacy, awareness of group dynamics and the ability to moderate one’s own communication and behavior style to mirror the group/project need.
  • Persistence + passion = Grit

Qualifications

  • 4+ years agency experience
  • Need to have one main production expertise Content (Broadcast, social and still), Digital (ar/vr, platform builds/apps, voice app) or Experiential (art installations, stunts, events, pop-ups)
  • If Digital is the main, you should have two supporting skills; low/mid budget/stakes level content, photography and experiential projects.
  • If Content is the main, you should have supporting skills experience of low/mid budget/stakes, digital and experiential projects.
  • If Experiential is the main, you should have supporting skills experience of low/mid budget/stakes content and digital projects.
  • Demonstrated experience scoping and managing large productions (>$500) including development of SOWs and effective risk management, overseeing large multi-discipline teams and ensuring overall quality of work.
  • Proven ability to assess feasibility of creative executions and propose production solutions that push the quality of work forward.

Additional Information

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.

Dentsu (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact recruiting@dentsuaegis.com if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.
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