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Salary: USD 156,000 - 184,000 / annual
Translation is an independent creative agency and music business that partners ambitious brands with culture to solve business challenges. The company combines expertise in culture, technology, and storytelling to drive brand growth beyond traditional advertising. Translation operates as an entrepreneurial business valuing resourcefulness, tenacity, creativity, and intelligence within a tight-knit team environment.
You will serve as Executive Producer, leading production for a major account and owning the vision, quality, and health of work from concept through final delivery. Your responsibilities include managing the complete production process—concept development through job wrap—including oversight of other producers, internal teams, outside vendors, and clients. You will produce large, complex jobs and quick-turn assignments on time and on budget, while developing strong working relationships with account leads, clients, and third-party vendors such as procurement groups, media agencies, and PR firms.
You will manage, mentor, and grow the producers on your account, delegating assignments based on project needs. Working closely with account leads on upcoming projects, you will vet ideas and bring production solutions to accomplish the creative vision. You will establish processes and workflows to ensure smooth production operations, attend shoots and post sessions to maintain highest quality output, and follow financial and job wrap policies. You will also seek opportunities for underrepresented creators both within the agency and the broader industry.
Key qualifications include outstanding creative sensibility with a proven track record of producing industry-leading work. You must have existing relationships with best-in-class industry partners and a network of talent for freelance and specialty consulting needs. You should have a track record of earning trust and respect from clients, internal teams, and industry partners, with a passion for mentoring junior production staff. You must work effectively under pressure with flexibility, agility, and humor, manage budgets and deadlines with accuracy and diplomacy, and demonstrate superb problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
**Requirements:**
- 10+ years of production experience at a creative-driven company
- Experience running accounts and/or managing key pieces of business through large campaign work as the client-facing production lead
- Willingness to work after hours and travel overnight to shoots and post sessions
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Portfolio of work showing large and small budget productions across various media
- Experience as production lead on pharma business
- Experience working with celebrities, athletes, musicians, influencers
- Experience with union and non-union crew productions, including SAG and non-SAG talent
- Passion and knowledge of latest industry trends (music, media, distribution, directors, film, tech)
