About the Role
The Senior Producer will be a creative production, critical thinker, elevating each project regardless of scale. They will contribute to maintaining and growing strong team/client/agency relationships, producing work that is distinct, consistent, and honors the level of style and craftsmanship that goes into every touchpoint that makes up our brands. The ideal candidate will have ambitions that push the production and technological limits on all projects and be experienced across integrated platforms, able to deliver on time, in budget, and to the highest creative standards.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for excellence in all day-to-day including scoping and ball-parking creative concepts, breaking down scripts, building detailed project schedules, managing project scope, researching and securing the best production resources, quality controlling all deliverables, maintaining project documentation and communication with project teams through final delivery.
- Able to contribute to the elevation of the creative product through actively participating with team.
- Supportive, and inspire, and educate on production opportunities that apply to each project.
- Aware of top industry trends, techniques, directors, cinematographers, GCI, AI, and new technologies in an effort to elevate the creative product.
- Responsible for building critical relationships and maintaining the agency’s reputation and standard of excellence within the production industry, and maintain an active knowledge of cross-discipline external partners.
- Able to manage multiple, often concurrent projects.
- Trusted to lead workload independently, and manage up to the Head of Production or EP when needed or appropriate.
- Able to utilize industry expertise to select and negotiate with the appropriately based on creative/scope/budget/timeline and identify which partner is best suited to execute the creative vision.
- Knowledgable of compliance and client legal guidelines.
- Able to leverage valuable experience to proactively predict issues and guide the team away from avoidable challenges during all stages of production.
- Responsible for supporting and participating in efforts to cultivate a diverse, equal and inclusive culture of production within our work.
- Communicating proactively with Creative, Account Services, Business Affairs, Talent Affairs, on all aspects of the production including milestones, deliverables in order to keep the production process flowing smoothly.
- Able to serve as a client-facing member of the team, able to articulate all aspects of production plans with varying levels of knowledge.
- Able to explain talent language and costs to both Agency and Client, while also staying on top of the latest talent/union information from SAG.
- A partner working closely with the Business Affairs Manager to compile final estimate and final actualizations.
- Wrap out efficiently at the end of each project.
- Lead the development of each project and ensure they are completed on time, within budget.
- Manage agency, client, and vendor relationships and responsibilities during production.
- Liaise between the agency and suppliers, maintaining fair process and channeling clear, positive communication in order to deliver our product successfully.
- Plan, schedule and control project production objectives, while adhering to client, agency and industry standards.
- On set, facilitate all communication between the agency, client and production partners.
Requirements
- 7-10 years experience
- Some working production knowledge in luxury and automotive
- Digital and Experiential experience a plus
Skills
- Creative production
- Critical thinking
- Planning
- Organizational skills
- Communication
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7-10 years
Salary/Compensations
- $75,000 to $180,000
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
About the Company
- WPP Production is the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation. We combine world-class human craft with next generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi-channel content systems at scale. Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today's always on, AI driven marketing world.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
