(USA) Senior Manager, Creative- Senior Production Lead

Walmart • Los Angeles, CA

100d • $108,000 - $216,000

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Producer who is an expert at matching the right skills and talent to deliver our brand campaigns and experiential activations. In this role, your production expertise, communication skills, and ability to foresee challenges will ensure seamless execution of high-impact marketing initiatives. You'll collaborate with a wide range of creative professionals including creative directors, designers, copywriters, account managers, project managers, post-production, and sample management teams to bring campaigns to life across multiple channels, always on time and on budget. This is a cross-functional role requiring collaboration with stakeholders at every level, from entry-level team members to executives. You'll oversee projects spanning video, photography, animation, live and digital experiences, helping to translate creative concepts into compelling campaigns and activations that drive results.

Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience as a senior producer in advertising, overseeing a wide range of content including scripted and unscripted video, 2D/3D animation, VFX, social campaigns, experiential activations, and special events, with more than 5 years successfully leading the delivery of large-scale, cross-functional projects.
• Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of equivalent professional experience.
• Strong portfolio showcasing work across the full production lifecycle from pre-production and capture through post-production and multi-channel deployment.
• Extensive industry contacts in photography, video, and post-production.
• Deep knowledge of production workflows for video, photo, animation, and digital.
• Strong understanding of the post-production process and resource requirements across media types.
• Background in collaborative, multidisciplinary environments with direct experience working alongside designers, account managers, and project managers.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks in complex projects.

Nice To Haves

• Marketing or creative agency experience, with an in-house agency background strongly preferred.
• Experience in the marketing, retail, or eCommerce industries.
• Demonstrated expertise in producing a range of experiential and brand-immersive events.
• Exceptional organizational skills with a track record of producing precise, high-quality deliverables.
• Familiarity with tools such as Workfront and Airtable.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage large-scale creative and experiential projects from initiation through completion.
• Source, bid, hire, and manage production partners for content projects within an in-house agency structure.
• Play a pivotal role in producing immersive experiential marketing initiatives, ensuring seamless execution of activations, live events, and brand experiences.
• Oversee shoots (video and photo), post-production, animation, and digital deliverables, serving as the primary point of contact for all video, photography, and motion design projects.
• Partner closely with creative directors, art directors, and copywriters to clarify requirements, resolve ambiguity, anticipate bottlenecks, manage escalations, and make tradeoffs while keeping projects moving forward with positivity.
• Collaborate with in-house legal and business affairs teams to draft contracts, secure usage rights, mitigate risk, and clear content for distribution.
• Clearly and consistently communicate project status, priorities, and risks to stakeholders.
• Continuously evaluate and refine production processes with a focus on efficiency and effectiveness.
• Establish repeatable workflows that enable the team to manage multiple concurrent projects and scale operations.

Benefits

• Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards.
• Health benefits including medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree