Marketing Production Director

Two Circles•New York, NY

22d•$100,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Two Circles is a sports and entertainment marketing business that helps clients grow audiences and revenues by understanding and influencing fan behavior. The Marketing Production Director will join the Marketing & Consulting Creative Services team and oversee the planning, management, and delivery of integrated creative production across multiple clients and campaigns. This hands-on leadership role is the central production contact for external clients, internal creative and media teams, and agency partners. The director translates marketing objectives and campaign requirements into actionable briefs, oversees creative assets from briefing through review, approval, adaptation, and delivery, and ensures work is completed efficiently, on time, within scope, and to a high standard. Production spans paid and organic social, digital advertising, video, email, web, out-of-home, print, experiential, and integrated brand campaigns. The role also involves building the creative production function and its processes from the ground up. The director will establish scalable workflows, systems, and standards; coordinate resources, budgets, vendors, and production capacity; and guide producers, coordinators, and cross-functional teams. The successful candidate is proactive, resourceful, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to balance immediate production needs with longer-term operational improvements in a fast-paced, growing creative agency.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in creative production, integrated production, marketing production, or creative operations, ideally in a creative, advertising, digital, media, or integrated marketing agency.
Proven experience managing end-to-end creative production across multiple clients, campaigns, and marketing channels.
Strong understanding of creative asset development and production workflows across digital, social, paid media, video, web, email, print, out-of-home, and experiential marketing.
Experience managing high-volume asset production, including resizing, adaptation, versioning, and delivery across formats and placements.
Strong client-facing experience managing stakeholder relationships and communicating with senior internal and external partners.
Ability to translate marketing objectives, creative concepts, and media requirements into clear production briefs and actionable deliverables.
Working knowledge of paid media channels, creative specifications, and platform- and placement-specific production requirements.
Excellent project management and organizational skills, including management of concurrent campaigns, deadlines, budgets, and stakeholder feedback.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and external production partners.
Strong understanding of creative review, approval, quality assurance, and asset delivery processes.
Experience managing production resources, budgets, timelines, and vendor relationships.
Builder mentality and enthusiasm for establishing processes and shaping a growing creative production function.
Proactive, resourceful self-starter who takes initiative and drives solutions independently.
Comfort with ambiguity and evolving environments; able to bring clarity, structure, and direction where processes may not exist.
Process-oriented problem solver able to design, implement, and improve workflows, systems, and ways of working.
Ownership mindset, with accountability for outcomes and ability to drive work forward with minimal oversight.
Ability to align stakeholders and establish new ways of working across creative, media, and client teams.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, including the ability to clarify information, priorities, and next steps.
Experience with creative and project management platforms such as Adobe Workfront, Jira, Asana, Monday.com, or similar tools.
Collaborative, hands-on approach and willingness to manage details while maintaining oversight of broader production priorities.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with clients in sports, entertainment, media, or consumer brand industries.
Experience supporting integrated marketing campaigns across digital, traditional, and experiential media.
Familiarity with media planning, trafficking, campaign activation, and creative performance optimization.
Experience managing large-scale creative asset libraries and digital asset management (DAM) systems.
Experience building a production function, implementing workflows, or establishing operational processes within a growing agency or creative organization.
Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud and the technical requirements for preparing assets for different marketing channels.
Experience managing creative production for sponsorship campaigns, live sporting events, or large-scale brand activations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the day-to-day production contact for external clients, managing creative requests, priorities, timelines, and deliverables across campaigns.
Build relationships and coordinate alignment among client stakeholders, internal marketing, creative, media, account management and strategy teams, and external agency partners.
Lead planning, production-status, and stakeholder meetings; communicate progress, upcoming requirements, risks, and dependencies.
Partner with account management, strategy, and media teams to connect production to client, marketing, and commercial objectives.
Manage client expectations regarding timelines, capabilities, feedback, and delivery requirements; resolve production challenges.
Lead end-to-end creative production, from campaign briefing and scoping through asset development, reviews, approvals, versioning, and final delivery.
Translate marketing objectives, campaign strategies, and media plans into actionable briefs for creative production teams.
Oversee high-volume creative asset production across clients, campaigns, and paid, owned, earned, and experiential channels.
Create and maintain production schedules, deliverable lists, project timelines, and visibility into active and upcoming work.
Coordinate internal teams, freelancers, vendors, and production partners, including workloads, capacity, and resource allocation.
Oversee asset adaptation, resizing, versioning, and localization for different audiences, markets, platforms, and placements.
Manage creative review and approval processes, consolidate stakeholder feedback, and communicate revisions clearly.
Maintain quality control so deliverables meet briefs, brand guidelines, technical specifications, client expectations, and activation requirements.
Prioritize multiple concurrent campaigns and workstreams as business needs change.
Ensure creative teams understand media plans, technical specifications, asset requirements, and activation timelines before production begins.
Use campaign performance insights and creative learnings in future briefs and production planning.
Organize, quality-check, and deliver final assets in line with platform specifications and activation requirements.
Build and establish creative production processes, workflows, and operational frameworks from the ground up.
Develop scalable systems for creative intake, briefing, resource allocation, production tracking, approvals, and asset delivery.
Establish consistent, accountable, and transparent ways of working across creative, media, account management, and client teams.
Create and maintain standardized briefing templates, production trackers, asset-management systems, approval processes, and documentation.
Support modular creative frameworks, templates, and repeatable production approaches for efficient adaptation and versioning.
Encourage adoption of production tools, systems, and processes; identify bottlenecks, resource constraints, automation opportunities, and other improvements.
Continuously refine workflows to support growing creative demands, changing client needs, and business growth while retaining agility.
Collaborate with creative and operational leadership on production resource planning and allocation.
Manage production scopes, timelines, resources, and budgets; identify cost efficiencies while maintaining quality and delivery standards.
Coordinate external production partners, freelancers, and vendors; oversee estimates, deliverables, timelines, and accountability.
Anticipate resourcing challenges and recommend scalable solutions as the creative function grows.
Guide producers, production coordinators, and cross-functional creative teams on priorities and successful project delivery.
Act as a production partner to designers, editors, motion graphics artists, creative directors, strategists, and media specialists.
Foster collaboration, accountability, clear communication, and continuous improvement; help establish production best practices and standards.
Balance hands-on project management with broader production oversight and longer-term operational priorities.