Senior Producer

Team Liquid • Santa Monica, CA

3d • $90,000 - $95,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Producer is a hands-on leadership role at Liquid Media, Team Liquid’s creative marketing agency. The role leads a globally distributed team of production and creative professionals, overseeing production quality, rigor, and team performance across social, digital, and live platforms. The Senior Producer guides and develops Producers, leads complex productions, and ensures work is delivered to a consistently high standard.

Working closely with Creative, Strategy, Editorial, Production, and Client Services, the Senior Producer turns creative ideas into executable concepts and balances creative ambition with feasibility, budgets, timelines, resources, and impact. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy and contributes production expertise and ideas to elevate work beyond the brief. The position is based in Los Angeles, California, and requires onsite work at the office at least three days per week.

The role also supports the development of Liquid Media’s game capture, trailer, and post-production offering, from capture planning through editing, finishing, and delivery. It manages client and project production plans, schedules, budgets, resourcing, vendors, freelancers, and internal teams; sets production standards and workflows; and proactively addresses risks and blockers. The Senior Producer manages and develops 1–4 direct reports, provides hands-on leadership for complex productions, collaborates with clients and cross-functional partners, and communicates production decisions, risks, timelines, and trade-offs clearly.

Team Liquid expects employees to explore approved AI tools thoughtfully, learn through experimentation, and share useful practices. In this role, AI may support production planning, scheduling, resource allocation, budget tracking, project communications, and pre- and post-production workflows. Client-specific policies, confidential information, output quality, and the need for human review must be considered.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in production roles within an agency, media, gaming, or live-event environment.
• Proven experience leading complex, high-visibility productions and campaigns.
• Strong understanding of multi-platform content production, including live, digital, and social content.
• Demonstrated ability to shape and evaluate creative concepts for feasibility and impact.
• Strong understanding of storytelling, pacing, framing, and visual composition across platforms.
• Strong financial understanding and experience managing production budgets, forecasting costs, planning resources, and overseeing production schedules.
• Experience managing and developing team members.
• Familiarity with production software and tools, including project management platforms, Adobe Suite, and asset-tracking systems.
• Strong leadership presence and the ability to guide teams and make confident decisions.
• High accountability for team output and individual performance.
• Clear, proactive communication across internal teams, clients, vendors, and external partners.
• Solutions-oriented problem-solving skills and the ability to anticipate challenges.
• Ability to maintain creative and production rigor under pressure.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to build trust across creative, strategy, production, and client teams.
• Practical experience using AI tools to improve production workflows, with an understanding of their limitations, confidentiality requirements, and the importance of human oversight.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including occasional evenings, weekends, and irregular hours, based on client deadlines, live events, and production needs.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% for client projects and production needs.
• Availability to work onsite at the Los Angeles office at least three days per week.

Nice To Haves

• Experience producing game capture, gameplay trailers, or post-production pipelines.
• Experience working with gaming and entertainment brands, publishers, or creative agencies.
• Experience managing productions across globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production quality, timelines, budgets, and deliverables across assigned clients and projects.
• Support the development of Liquid Media’s game capture, trailer, and post-production offering, from capture planning through edit, finishing, and delivery.
• Lead complex, high-impact productions end-to-end, balancing hands-on production leadership with team oversight.
• Partner with Creative, Strategy, and Editorial to shape and evaluate concepts for strategic soundness, creative quality, and producibility.
• Drive creative development from a production perspective during pitches and early concepting.
• Review work across projects to ensure it is on-brand, creatively compelling, and executed to a consistently high standard.
• Oversee production plans, schedules, budgets, and resourcing to ensure projects are feasible and efficiently executed.
• Align creative concepts with production realities, timelines, and budget constraints.
• Manage vendors, freelancers, and internal teams to support smooth execution.
• Set and enforce production standards, workflows, and best practices across the team.
• Ensure consistent execution across clients, campaigns, platforms, and production formats.
• Anticipate production risks, gaps, and blockers and implement solutions proactively.
• Manage and develop 1–4 direct reports, providing guidance, feedback, and growth direction.
• Set expectations for creative quality, production rigor, accountability, and individual performance.
• Build a high-performing production team that takes ownership and delivers reliably.
• Provide hands-on leadership during complex and high-pressure productions.
• Foster collaboration across Production, Creative, Strategy, Editorial, and Client Services.
• Represent Liquid Media in client conversations as a senior production voice when needed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams from pitch through delivery and translate creative ambition into executable production approaches.
• Build trust with internal teams, clients, vendors, freelancers, and production partners.
• Communicate production decisions, risks, timelines, and trade-offs clearly and proactively.
• Manage production budgets, schedules, and resource allocation, ensuring spending aligns with approved plans.
• Balance creative ambition with budget, timeline, and resource realities, and identify efficiencies while maintaining creative quality.
• Explore approved AI tools to improve production workflows while protecting confidential information, following client-specific policies, checking outputs, and ensuring appropriate human review.
• Work onsite at the Los Angeles office at least three days per week; travel up to 10% and work occasional evenings, weekends, and irregular hours as production needs require.

Benefits

• Game Day once a quarter, when the office pauses for games and friendly competition.
• In-house chefs at every facility, serving two meals a day.
• Three extra global holidays, one for each continent Team Liquid operates on.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited PTO.
• 401(k) plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed