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About the Role
Day One Agency is seeking an experienced Executive Producer to lead the execution of creatively driven work across various formats. This hands-on role requires a deep understanding of the advertising production ecosystem and the ability to manage projects from concept through delivery, ensuring creative excellence and financial responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Lead Production from Bid Through Delivery
- Partner with account and creative teams to understand project scope, budget, timeline, and production requirements.
- Determine the appropriate production model, leveraging internal studio or external partners.
- Assemble production teams, including companies, crew, vendors, and resources.
- Build and manage production budgets, bids, schedules, estimates, and plans.
- Evaluate and negotiate with production partners and vendors for optimal creative quality and efficiency.
- Provide senior-level production guidance through all phases of production.
- Anticipate and proactively solve production challenges.
- Maintain a strong network of production resources in NYC and nationally.
- Identify new production partners, technologies, and approaches.
- Collaborate with account teams on project scoping, budgeting, and timelines.
- Assist account teams in client-facing production discussions.
- Participate in creative development, offering production perspective to influence the work.
- Translate creative ambition into realistic production plans.
- Serve as a senior production resource for the agency and clients.
- Produce across various formats including broadcast commercials, digital content, social media, episodic content, branded entertainment, photography, experiential events, live/hybrid productions, and fast-turn content.
Requirements
- 8+ years of production experience, ideally within an advertising agency or production company.
- Strong line production and physical production experience, capable of independently managing complex productions.
- Demonstrated experience producing a broad range of content.
- Substantial network of trusted production companies, crew, vendors, stages, locations, rental houses, and post partners, particularly in NYC.
- Strong understanding of commercial production budgets, bidding, scheduling, staffing, union considerations, insurance, locations, permits, post-production, and logistics.
- Excellent judgment in selecting production models and partners.
- Strong negotiation and vendor management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable working with senior leadership, clients, creatives, account teams, production partners, and crew.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to remain calm and decisive.
- Strong creative instincts and ability to protect creative ideas through production.
Skills
- Production leadership
- Line production
- Physical production
- Budget management
- Bidding
- Scheduling
- Vendor negotiation
- Team building
- Creative development
- Problem-solving
- Network management
- Client relations
- Communication
- Organization
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Freelance
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of production experience
Salary/Compensations
- $3,300 - $3,600 / week
About the Company
- Day One is a creative agency committed to bringing fresh thinking to our work.
- We help brands build legacy through relevance.
- We are an award-winning collective of cultural insiders and industry outsiders, all storytellers at heart.
- The agency has been recognized on Fast Company's Most Innovative list for three years running, made the Ad-Age A-List, been named Agency to Watch 2025, and took home Campaign AOY in 2025 and PR Week Midsize AOY for four consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026).