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About the Role

Dazed Studio partners with ambitious brands to create pioneering ideas for a global influencer community, specializing in fashion, luxury, and lifestyle communications. As a client-facing producer, you will execute and deliver bespoke commercial projects, ensuring successful planning, pricing, pitching, and timely delivery across stills and motion.

Responsibilities

• Provide production solutions to clients by working closely with the studio creative team and project managers.
• Assemble relevant creative teams from various departments to respond to project briefs.
• Ensure relevant margins are adhered to across all work.
• Interrogate client briefs, set clear objectives, and sense check creative development within budget.
• Facilitate internal creative meetings and act as a lead point of contact for production action items.
• Develop production timelines with the project management team for client sign-off.
• Manage day-to-day production topics autonomously.
• Sense check creative team proposals regarding costs and timings, offering solutions and identifying potential clearance or legal issues.
• Encourage diversity and representation in creative team/cast proposals.
• Forecast production budgets for sign-off.
• Ensure NDAs are signed when engaging with third parties during pitch stages.
• Grow professional network of industry professionals and represent Dazed Studio production at industry events.
• Perform various administrative tasks including meeting notes, schedule maintenance, and updating the production planner.
• Act as a client-facing contact during the pre-sale stage where required.
• Ensure agreed creative is pre-produced and planned within timelines and budget.
• Coordinate with the finance team to ensure pre-production costs are paid to suppliers ahead of shoots.
• Work with both production companies and self-produce shoots.
• Ensure business affairs agreements are signed upon awarding external creative teams/third-party suppliers.
• Ascertain and manage project expectations before casting or pitch stages.
• Set up calls to brief photographers, directors, or production companies on studio creative.
• Travel and produce overseas where relevant.
• Support the Head of Production on sustainable practices.
• Monitor agreed budgets and flag potential overages or out-of-scope requests.
• Pre-empt and effectively deal with issues to minimize impact on client and inter-departmental relationships.
• Support the project management team on pre-bid and pre-production meetings.
• Support producers and junior producers with onboarding and project questions.
• Attend shoots and client update meetings, preparing relevant documentation.
• Be aware of the Statement of Work (SOW) contents, client deliverables, and usage.
• Comply with union and industry regulations (e.g., SAG).
• Onboard freelancers and junior team members.
• Ensure timely submission of invoices from vendors.
• Flag issues related to vendor/supplier payments.
• Commission creative talent and maintain communication with collaborators.
• Work closely with creative talent on client feedback.
• Manage workflow and input from the creative team.
• Ensure each project has a signed contract and relevant documentation on file.
• Be client-facing in meetings and on set, conducting yourself professionally.
• Reconcile project budgets and report financials.
• Ensure archiving of all business affairs agreements and project budgets.
• Attend project close/debrief meetings.
• Support the Head of Production with queries on business affairs, legal issues, clearance, and insurance.
• Contribute to the database of creative talent.
• Support internal initiatives as needed.

Requirements

• 5-8+ years of experience as a producer with project management skills in a creative environment (agency, studio, production company, or in-house).
• Experience across both stills and motion production.
• Ability to handle multiple work streams.
• Knowledge of business affairs agreements (talent, clearances) and working knowledge of APA/IPA rates is desirable.
• Be a self-starter.
• Accountable for owning a production from pitch to delivery, flagging concerns promptly.
• Genuine interest in creative work and production.
• Eager to manage projects spanning print, digital, social, photography, editorial, and moving image formats.
• Organized, reliable, time-conscious, solution-focused, proactive, and a problem solver.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced creative environment.
• Experience working with brands in the luxury, lifestyle, and fashion sectors is preferable.
• Positive and sunny ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Understanding of up-and-coming and established creative talent.
• Interest in the evolution and future of production and industry trends (e.g., metaverse/NFTs).
• Interest in sustainable practices and supporting them on productions.
• Experience working on productions on a global basis is desirable.
• Great interpersonal skills with the ability to remain calm under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Ideally passionate about film, fashion, arts, and culture.
• Keen understanding of the Dazed brand, values, culture, and heritage.
• Appreciation of the distinct market value Dazed offers to clients.
• Preferably competent in macOS, Excel, Word, Keynote, Google Suite, Google Drive, and Monday.

Skills

• Project management
• Production solutions
• Budget forecasting
• Client relationship management
• Creative team collaboration
• Timeline development
• Risk assessment
• Sustainable practices
• Business affairs agreements
• Talent commissioning
• Interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving
• Time management
• Communication
• Negotiation
• macOS
• Excel
• Word
• Keynote
• Google Suite
• Google Drive
• Monday

Location

• London, UK

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

About the Company

• Dazed Media is a leading independent fashion and culture media brand.
• Founded 25 years ago, Dazed & Confused became a movement in cultural provocation.
• The company is an agenda-setting publishing powerhouse reaching influential audiences.
• Dazed Media powers digital channels and print titles including Dazed, AnOther, Dazed Beauty, and Nowness.
• The company includes a creative studio, award-winning video production, events, a talent network, and distribution.
• Dazed Studio specializes in fashion, luxury, and lifestyle communications.
• Select clients include Gucci, Burberry, Valentino, Converse, Nike, TikTok, Calvin Klein, and Depop.

Equal Opportunity

• Dazed Media promotes a working environment where diversity is recognized, valued, and encouraged.
• The company is committed to principles of fairness and mutual respect.
• Dazed Media particularly welcomes applicants from those significantly underrepresented in the sector.