Director, Post Production

attn:•Los Angeles, CA

13h•$140,000 - $155,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Post Production provides operational leadership to ATTN:’s video editing team, ensuring timely delivery of high volumes of quality video for social, digital, and broadcast distribution. The role manages post-production for internal and third-party scripted and unscripted productions, provides post estimates, reviews budgets, and supports best practices from content collection through delivery. Working with multiple department heads, the Director ensures projects reach their creative potential, are completed on time and on budget, and meet technical specifications. This is a full-time staff position with benefits, based in Los Angeles in a hybrid arrangement requiring at least three days per week in the office. The role reports to the Head of Studio.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in a post-production role such as post-production supervisor, post-production manager, post-production producer, or lead editor.
At least 5 years of experience managing direct reports, including coaching, development, and performance management.
Experience working on a variety of content formats.
Thorough proficiency with Adobe Premiere and related programs, including Adobe After Effects.
A proven track record managing multiple fast-paced projects in a large organization.
Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills.
Superior oral and written communication skills.
Experience with budgeting, scheduling, and booking post-production services.
Experience delivering content to digital and network specifications.
Comfort handling multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with editors, producers, and cross-functional partners.
Hands-on experience as both an assistant editor and an editor.
Familiarity with all aspects of post-production workflow, including ingest, cataloging and archiving, story editing, compositing, color, audio, and motion graphics.
Experience with workflow and resource management programs such as JIRA, Air Table, and Team Work.

Responsibilities

Lead and supervise in-house and external editors, providing creative feedback, technical guidance, and professional development.
Plan, schedule, and manage the editing team’s assignments and daily workflow to ensure timely delivery of high-quality video assets.
Recruit, evaluate, and administer contract editors and vendors for new and ongoing projects.
Personally edit projects when needed.
Collaborate with production and creative teams on new projects and proposals, and regularly identify best-in-class video examples as benchmarks and inspiration.
Assist the VP, Production with establishing and documenting workflows, creative standards, processes, and technical guidelines for the post-production team.
Work with the Sr Production Ops Manager to manage resources and ensure project goals, objectives, and deliverables are accounted for and clearly communicated.
Work with producers to ensure deliverables are collected by scheduled due dates and meet network and client standards.
Provide budget estimates to producers.
Facilitate communication and collaboration across creative, physical production, executive leadership, project management, legal, finance, and other stakeholder teams.
Identify issues that could adversely affect creative quality, deadlines, or budgets; generate tracking documents and ongoing output reports.
Manage edit system workspaces, project setup, asset storage, network resources, and deliverables tracking.
Address technical and logistical issues and work with IT to resolve workflow and delivery problems.
Work with assistant editors and others to quality-check deliverables against technical, creative, aesthetic, and legal requirements.
Maintain documentation for media, software, and hardware.