Marketing Production Director

Two Circles•New York, NY

21d

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 company has more than 1,000 people across 15 offices and serves more than 1,000 clients globally. The Marketing Production Director will join the Marketing & Consulting Creative Services team and oversee planning, management, and delivery of integrated creative production across multiple clients and campaigns. The role coordinates among external client stakeholders, internal creative and media teams, and agency partners, translating marketing objectives into actionable briefs and overseeing creative assets from initial scoping through review, approval, versioning, and delivery. This hands-on leadership role will also build the creative production function, establishing processes, scalable workflows, and operational systems to support a growing agency. The successful candidate will manage high-volume production across a broad range of marketing channels, coordinate resources and vendors, maintain quality and delivery standards, and guide cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. The stated U.S. base salary range is $100,000–$150,000. Salary decisions depend on factors including experience, training, responsibilities, and business needs.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in creative production, integrated production, marketing production, or creative operations, ideally at 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 asset development and production workflows across digital, social, paid media, video, web, email, print, out-of-home, and experiential marketing.
Experience overseeing high-volume asset production, including resizing, adaptation, versioning, and delivery across formats and placements.
Strong client-facing skills and ability to manage stakeholder relationships, lead production conversations, and communicate with senior 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 managing concurrent campaigns, deadlines, budgets, and stakeholder feedback.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, including designers, editors, creative directors, media specialists, and external production partners.
Understanding of creative review, approval, quality assurance, and asset delivery processes.
Experience managing production resources, budgets, timelines, and vendor relationships.
Builder mentality and genuine interest in establishing processes and shaping a growing creative production function.
Proactive, resourceful self-starter who takes initiative, identifies challenges, and drives solutions independently.
Comfort working in evolving environments with ambiguity and bringing clarity, structure, and direction.
Process-oriented problem solver with experience designing, implementing, and improving workflows, systems, and ways of working.
Ownership mindset, including accountability for outcomes and ability to drive projects forward with minimal oversight.
Ability to build stakeholder alignment and introduce new ways of working across creative, media, and client teams.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, including the ability to clarify 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 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 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 considerations involved in 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 clients, managing requests, priorities, timelines, and deliverables across campaigns.
Build relationships and coordinate effectively with client stakeholders, internal marketing, creative, media, account management, and strategy teams, as well as external agency partners.
Lead creative planning, production status, and stakeholder meetings; communicate progress, requirements, risks, and dependencies.
Partner with account management, strategy, and media teams to align production with client objectives and commercial goals.
Manage client expectations regarding timelines, capabilities, feedback, and delivery requirements.
Translate campaign strategy, marketing objectives, and media plans into actionable creative briefs.
Oversee end-to-end creative production, including scoping, asset development, reviews, approvals, versioning, and final delivery.
Manage high-volume creative asset production across multiple clients, campaigns, and channels, including paid and organic social, digital advertising, video, web, email, out-of-home, print, experiential, and partnership marketing.
Develop production schedules, deliverable lists, and project timelines, and ensure assets meet campaign and media deadlines.
Coordinate internal creative teams, external production partners, and freelancers; manage workloads, capacity, and resource allocation.
Oversee asset adaptation, resizing, versioning, and localization for different audiences, markets, platforms, and placements.
Manage review and approval processes, consolidate stakeholder feedback, and communicate revisions clearly.
Maintain quality control so deliverables meet briefs, brand guidelines, technical specifications, and client expectations.
Prioritize and manage concurrent campaigns and production workstreams as needs change.
Coordinate with media, strategy, and creative teams on campaign goals, audiences, channel strategies, specifications, and activation timelines.
Ensure creative teams receive visibility into media plans, technical specifications, asset requirements, and upcoming activations before production begins.
Incorporate campaign performance insights and creative learnings into future briefs and production planning.
Organize and quality-check final assets and deliver them according to platform specifications and activation requirements.
Build and establish production processes, workflows, and operational frameworks, including systems for intake, briefing, resourcing, tracking, approvals, and delivery.
Establish consistent ways of working across creative, media, account management, and client teams, with clear ownership and accountability.
Maintain a centralized view of creative requests, deliverables, project owners, deadlines, and production status.
Create and maintain briefing templates, production trackers, asset management systems, and approval processes.
Develop modular creative frameworks, templates, and repeatable approaches for asset adaptation and versioning.
Drive adoption of production tools, systems, and processes; identify bottlenecks, resource constraints, and opportunities for automation or improvement.
Keep documentation, creative files, brand guidelines, and final assets organized and accessible; continuously refine workflows as demands and business needs evolve.
Collaborate with creative and operational leadership on resource planning and allocation across clients and campaigns.
Manage production scopes, timelines, and resource requirements, and identify ways to optimize costs while maintaining quality.
Coordinate external production partners, freelancers, and vendors; oversee estimates, deliverables, timelines, and accountability.
Anticipate resourcing challenges and recommend solutions; develop scalable approaches to production planning as the function grows.
Guide producers, production coordinators, and cross-functional creative teams on priorities and project delivery.
Act as a production partner to designers, editors, motion graphics artists, creative directors, strategists, and media specialists.
Foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented production environment and support production best practices and consistent standards.
Balance hands-on project management with broader production oversight and longer-term operational priorities.