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About the Role

The Head of Production leads the planning, execution, and operational delivery of all projects, ensuring ambitious creative work is delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality. This role oversees internal teams, external vendors, and fabrication partners while improving delivery processes for experiential, retail, and content projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead all production across experiential, digital, content, and environmental projects.
• Establish production standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Oversee project delivery from handoff through implementation.
• Build scalable production systems that support studio growth.
• Drive operational excellence across all production disciplines.
• Oversee project planning, schedules, budgets, and production risks.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Lead production reviews and delivery planning across all active work.
• Resolve production challenges and remove delivery blockers.
• Ensure strong communication across internal teams and clients.
• Lead full-time and freelance production teams.
• Build new and manage existing relationships with fabricators, vendors, and specialist partners.
• Oversee procurement, estimates, and production contracts.
• Ensure appropriate staffing and resource allocation in partnership with the Operations team.
• Own production budgets and financial performance throughout delivery.
• Identify opportunities for efficiencies while maintaining quality.
• Support project scoping and estimating during proposal development.
• Monitor project profitability alongside Client Services and Finance.
• Ensure timely reconciliation of completed projects.
• Manage production billing and invoices.
• Improve forecasting and production reporting.
• Develop production workflows and documentation.
• Introduce tools and systems that improve delivery efficiency.
• Establish quality assurance processes across production.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support studio-wide operational planning.

Requirements

• 10+ years leading production within an experiential, design, or creative agency.
• Extensive experience managing complex multidisciplinary projects.
• Strong knowledge of fabrication, environmental production, digital production, and installation.
• Proven financial and budget management experience.
• Experience leading production teams and external vendors.
• Excellent organizational, leadership, and communication skills.

Experience Level

• 10+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $180,000 - $200,000 annually

About the Company

• Something Special Studios