Executive Producer - Brand Creative

Mercury•Portland, OR

1d•$170,400 - $236,700

About The Position

Mercury is seeking its first Executive Producer to establish Creative Production as a core capability within the Brand Creative team. This role will lead production for ambitious campaigns and projects, build systems for repeatable exceptional creative work, and foster an external network of partners. The ideal candidate views production as a creative discipline, capable of protecting bold ideas, challenging briefs, managing tradeoffs, and bringing clarity to complexity. This is a senior, hands-on position for someone who wants to build a function while also personally producing significant creative work.

Requirements

Significant experience leading complex, multidisciplinary creative production, with a track record of independently owning large-scale campaigns and multiple concurrent creative projects.
Deep production experience across film, photography, motion, experiential, digital, and integrated brand work, with the judgment to choose the right production model for the idea.
Strong financial and operational judgment, including experience with scoping, staffing, budgeting, forecasting, and managing meaningful production investments.
A track record of building production systems, capabilities, or ways of working, not simply operating within established ones.
Experience building and managing an exceptional network of agencies, production companies, directors, studios, freelancers, and vendors.
Strong creative judgment and the confidence to challenge briefs, protect ambitious ideas, and make difficult tradeoffs without losing sight of the work.
Exceptional communication and partnership skills across creative teams, marketers, executives, and external partners.
The ability to bring calm, clarity, and sound judgment to ambiguity.
Excited to build the function from the ground up and still want to personally produce the work.

Responsibilities

Own production across Brand Creative campaigns and projects, balancing priorities, capacity, staffing, budgets, timelines, and risk across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Personally lead ambitious campaigns and selected projects from concept through delivery across film, photography, motion, experiential, digital, and integrated work.
Partner with creative leaders to turn ambitious ideas into production plans that hold up against timing, budget, and reality, challenging underdeveloped briefs and protecting the creative idea through execution.
Build and lead an exceptional network of agencies, directors, studios, photographers, freelancers, and production partners that expands our capacity without lowering the bar.
Establish how Brand Creative prioritizes, staffs, greenlights, reviews, and delivers projects, creating a production system that makes exceptional work more repeatable.
Bring clarity to complex projects by keeping creative leaders and cross-functional partners grounded in the real state of the work, decisions, constraints, tradeoffs, and risks.
Work directly with Brand Creative leadership to continually raise the quality of the work and build one of the strongest in-house creative teams in the industry.