Executive Vice President, Executive Producer

Edelman•New York, NY

2d•$200,000 - $275,000

About The Position

The Executive Vice President, Executive Producer is a master of craft within the industry with proven ability to manage production departments and/or global client accounts across all production disciplines. This role focuses on elevating creative, refining and improving process, and acting as a bridge between internal departments. The EVP offers guidance and production leadership to Executive Producers within their group and supports the greater production team. This role partners with the lead Creative and the lead Account Manager for each business. The EVP is brought in for escalation when high-level production oversight is needed and is comfortable taking an active role in shaping the work while ensuring flawless execution and delivery. At the EVP level, mastery of empathetic leadership and conflict management is essential.

Requirements

15+ years’ production experience at a creative agency, marketing/comms, or production company.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Leadership and management experience at a creative agency.
Expert budgeting, ballparking, and production planning for productions ranging from complicated experiential executions to table-top photo.
Knows how to scale projects and express the importance of proper timing and budgeting to internal agency partners.
Strong track record in building client relationships.
Works seamlessly across agency functions, partner agencies, and vendors.
Identifies high potential, creative ideas - fights for them and builds them.

Responsibilities

Accountable to play a leadership role in contributing to the culture of the Production Department.
Initiating opportunities to educate and inspire both their teams and those around them.
Responsible for leading efforts in cultivating a diverse, equal, and inclusive culture of production within our work.
Responsible for building critical relationships and maintaining the agency’s reputation and standard of excellence with the internal and external production industry.
Improve production process and weighs in on production’s function within the agency at large, supporting the belief that production should have a seat at the table amongst every client team in need of production.
Drives innovation to build production learnings that can solidify the Client's presence as an industry leader.
Works to pursue the best creative ideas and creates an environment supportive of the best creative.
Expert in Experiential and Content Production; able to lead teams and guide clients, Creative, and Account through the production process.