Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
Tailor your resume to this Freelance Producer - Talent Pipeline role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Sid Lee's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Freelance Producer - Talent Pipeline role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Sid Lee's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Freelance Producer - Talent Pipeline posting at Sid Lee — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Freelance Producer - Talent Pipeline posting at Sid Lee — free, in seconds.
About the Role
Sid Lee is building a bank of top freelance Producers to help deliver world-class campaigns and branded content for clients. This role involves leading the end-to-end production of advertising and branded content across various formats.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end production of advertising and branded content, including broadcast, social, digital, and integrated campaigns.
- Collaborate closely with creative, strategy, and account teams to interpret briefs and elevate ideas into compelling visual stories.
- Build, manage, and inspire multidisciplinary production crews, from internal creators to external partners, talents, and suppliers, to successfully complete projects.
- Oversee production schedules, budgets, logistical plans, and post-production workflows (animation, VFX, compositing, colour grading, AI and more).
- Navigate legal, union, copyright, and compliance requirements specific to agency and advertising contexts.
- Proactively problem-solve and deliver production solutions that balance creative ambition with technical and budget realities.
- Budgeting, actualizing, and wrapping all productions efficiently, on time and on budget.
- Act as a creative ambassador and champion of innovation at Sid Lee.
- Ensure final project documentation, closeout, archiving, and billing are clear and complete.
Requirements
- Proven experience working as a freelancer/independent producer for advertising, social media, TV, video/photo, experiential, or branded content projects.
- Strong portfolio of agency-produced work.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience as a producer (in-agency or freelance).
- Very good command of production and post-production techniques (film crew, equipment, post-production etc.).
- Advanced organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
- Strong negotiation skills while vetting and building production plans.
- Excellent communication skills with clients, internal team members, and agency production partners.
- Knowledge of industry agreements, local supplier networks, and production norms.
- Passion for creative innovation, team collaboration, and working with ambitious brands.
- Strong interest and expertise in new technologies, including artificial intelligence.
- Possess extensive knowledge of the network of production and post-production vendors in Toronto.
- Canadian passport holder with the ability to travel abroad as needed.
- Fluency in English, both spoken and written.
- Interest in working on-site.
Skills
- Production
- Post-production
- Budgeting
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Leadership
- Organizational skills
- Creative innovation
- Artificial intelligence
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Freelance
- On-site
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum of 8 years of experience as a producer
About the Company
- Sid Lee is a multidisciplinary creative collective striving to make a difference and celebrating culture with bold ideas.
- Over 300 artisans work as one team from offices in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Paris, London, and San Francisco.
- They strive to break the ordinary through brand building, brand expression and brand experience.
- Its creative community also includes Yard, Digital Kitchen, Sid Lee Sport, Sid Lee Architecture, and Haigo.
- Alongside daring clients, Sid Lee draws on its rich collection of disciplines: from craft to culture and innovation, empowering its clients to outperform their competitors, earn the trust of their customers, and increase their influence.
- Sid Lee is a member of kyu, a collective of top-tier global creative companies established by Hakuhodo DY Holdings.
- Sid Lee also imagined C2 Montréal, one of the largest creative-business conferences in the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Sid Lee is committed to creating a diverse work environment.
- All qualified applicants are considered without regard to citizenship, ethnicity, race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.
- We encourage women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.