Senior Producer

VaynerX is a family of companies building brands for the now. Founded by Chairman Gary Vaynerchuk in January 2017, the modern-day parent company is home to relevance-driving businesses including VaynerMedia, ChukMedia, Gallery Media Group, Eva Nosidam Productions, Tingley Lane Trading, and VaynerSpeakers.

VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies.

• Bring a production lens to early ideation to unlock bold, scalable ideas and to navigate trade-offs between speed, cost, craft, partners, formats and output. 
• Work directly with internal agency leads across disciplines to assess project feasibility and curate the right resources, internally and externally.
• Review creative concepts, scripts and activation ideas with a critical production lens, identifying risks, efficiencies, and executional opportunities.
• Own end-to-end production for 360 campaigns by building budgets with talent (union and non-union), locations, schedule, and post considerations in mind, with budgets ranging from $250-$750k+
• Ability to lead in hands-on production bidding, and step in as a line producer, when required.
• Crew up projects by sourcing and managing required production personnel such as directors, DPs, photographers, production and/or experiential partners, post production professionals, etc.
• Highly effective communicator across all departments with understanding of what each respective team needs to be successful.
• Bring proven track record and experience of executing flawless production plans across film, social, digital, print, experiential/ events, post production, podcasts, DOOH/OOH, PR, custom fabrication of influencer kits and more.
• Act as a client-facing production lead, capable of managing multiple stakeholders at the most senior levels and navigating agency dynamics with confidence and discretion.
• Confirm trafficking, versioning, and metadata across internal pipelines and agency deliverables.
• Work closely with Business Affairs to review concepts, talent agreements, usage terms and other vendor and legal contracts.
• Must be able to navigate both Union and Non Union talent considerations.
• Help evolve how production operates within a changing advertising landscape.
• Mentor junior producers and production staff as needed.

• 8-10+ years of experience in advertising production, with a strong background in bidding, budgeting, and managing complex productions.
• Expected to travel as needed for productions, which may include evenings and weekends.
• Collaborative communicator with the ability to manage pressure and extremely tight deadlines.
• Relationship builder, operating with respect, kindness and professionalism 
• Must be proactive, highly organized, detail-oriented, and a solutions-driven decision maker Must have proven experience and relationships in experiential, event-based activation, live-streaming, OOH/DOOH.
• Experience with line production on live-action shoots.
• Experience with post workflow and software (Adobe Creative cloud).
• Deep technical knowledge across production through post, understanding what it actually takes on the ground to make the work, not just setting the parameters for execution.
• Experience with emerging AI tools and integration into standard production is a plus.

This position is currently designated as hybrid and is subject to the Company's workplace attendance and in-office work requirements, as in effect from time to time. The Company reserves the right to modify these requirements at any time.

All information submitted with this application and disclosed in the interview and screening processes must be truthful.  The Company reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify a candidate from consideration, withdraw a conditional offer of employment, or terminate employment, if it discovers a candidate provided false, misleading, or materially incomplete information during the application process.

VaynerX is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military status, veteran status, citizenship or immigration status (as permitted by applicable law), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.