Producer, Associate

Company3 • Santa Monica, CA

1d • $22 - $30 • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Producer functions as an extension of the Producer and is a main point of contact while working with internal and external teams to organize, supervise, and monitor the progress of projects. This position is on the Episodic Production team and is responsible for supporting the production process from initial client contact, to bidding, scheduling and delivery. Possessing a strong sense of urgency, the Associate Producer demonstrates an ability to work successfully within a fast-paced and collaborative environment, delivering accurate and quality work on schedule, and has excellent skills in building relationships and communicating effectively. In an operations capacity, this role requires a highly professional demeanor and diplomacy when dealing with clients, production management, coworkers, and artists. The Associate Producer relies on previous post-production experience and will draw from what was learned from coordination of past projects combined with the company and client processes. The Associate Producer reports into the Head of Production and actively provides support and executes task-based work for the episodic team.

Requirements

• Previous experience in a post production environment.
• Experience with Media Pulse and/or post production scheduling software.
• Strong communication skills.
• A self-starting and a positive, can-do attitude.
• Adaptable, Organized, and proactive.
• Great collaboration with all members of a project.
• Perseverant under pressure in a quick pace environment.
• Ability to follow direction and to provide timely, comprehensive updates and follow-through.
• An available, reliable source of information about project status updates.
• Ability to work successfully with different personality types and work styles.
• Strong sense of urgency and prioritization skills.
• Ability to change priorities quickly as project requirements may shift.
• Comfortable communicating high status clients and senior level artists/executives.
• Strong time management skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel and Word.
• Basic administrative skills including but not limited to typing, answering phone calls and responding to emails/instant messages, scanning or printing documents, creating and saving PDF documents, organizing electronic and physical project information, etc.
• Desire for post production and being comfortable asking questions to be able to learn and grow.
• Ability to anticipate potential project setbacks and proactively recommend solutions to prevent project delays.
• Entertainment/Film/Arts degree or 1 year working in a fast-paced post production environment.
• Basic knowledge of the Color Correction Process.
• Basic knowledge of offline editing, VFX and sound workflows.
• Basic knowledge of scheduling the post process.
• Basic knowledge of task-based software (ClickUp, Asana, Jira).

Responsibilities

• Track color and delivery schedules.
• Drive updates to keep the team on track.
• Work closely with the Production Coordinators on ensure various elements of projects are handled according to the clients requests and team operating procedures.
• Act as a main point of contact alongside your producer and coordinator for your internal CO3 team and clients via in-person interactions, e-mail, and phone.
• Assist with maintaining effective communication with the internal team and clients regarding job status and changes.
• Coordinate and verify project needs prior to any session start times and/or client arrivals as well as deliveries.
• Have firsthand communication with Producers upon arrival and throughout the day.
• Assist in the collection and logging of project statuses and key information.
• Keep the production team up to date on project status.
• Support color assists with project information, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring they have the elements to complete their tasks.
• Interface with client if required elements for jobs are missing.
• Assist producer in the creation, actualizing and billing of work orders.
• Ensure all resources assigned to job are available as scheduled.
• Make sure projects and resources are ready for sessions to begin on time.
• Set a positive example for the Production Coordinators and help mentor your new team members based on guidance from your producer.
• Work with Studio Operations team to setup and support virtual sessions for offsite clients.
• Work with Producer and assistants to troubleshoot any session related problems.
• Assist in greeting and escorting clients to the bays upon arrival.
• Assist in checking in on artists, clients, assists, and client services on a regular basis to make sure the session is well supported.
• Notify the Producer if any delivery deadlines that will or are in jeopardy of being missed.
• Track revised projects and ensure they are archived daily by the Assist team.
• Work with Production Managers to effectively manage SAN storage capacity.
• Communicate with our Engineers if any network issues arise.
• Engage Engineering staff to resolve urgent technical problems.
• Coordinate project details across sister facilities.
• Develop understanding of the relation between production team and the various support teams (Operations, Assists, Scheduling).
• Support the primary producer in managing artist schedules on a daily basis.
• Collaborate with the scheduling team to gather artists’ holds and share them with the client as required.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off for eligible part-time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US.
• Retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US.
• Local benefits plan offerings as adopted and amended from time to time for roles filled in Canada and other territories.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED