Director, Post Production

attn•Los Angeles, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Post Production provides operational leadership to ATTN:’s video editing team, ensuring timely delivery of high-volume, quality video content for social, digital, and broadcast platforms. The role oversees post-production for internal and third-party scripted and unscripted projects, provides post estimates, reviews budgets, and supports best practices from media collection through delivery. In collaboration with department heads, this position helps projects achieve their creative potential while meeting schedule, budget, and technical specifications. This is a full-time staff position with benefits, reporting to the Head of Studio. It is based in Los Angeles and is hybrid, with at least three days per week in the office.

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.
Proven ability to manage 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, Airtable, and Teamwork.

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 deliver high-quality video assets on time.
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 developing projects and proposals.
Identify high-quality video examples and provide benchmarks and inspiration for new work.
Assist the VP of Production in establishing and documenting workflows, creative standards, processes, and technical guidelines.
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 their scheduled due dates and meet network and client standards.
Provide budget estimates to producers.
Coordinate communication and collaboration with creative directors, physical production, executive leadership, project management, legal, finance, and other stakeholders.
Identify issues that could adversely affect creative quality, delivery deadlines, or budgets and drive accountability for addressing them.
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 for technical, creative, aesthetic, and legal requirements.
Maintain documentation for media, software, and hardware.