Producer

smartdept.inc. is searching for a Producer for a client located in Ada, MI. This is a full-time, 6 month contract opportunity. This is a hybrid position, where the candidate will need to be on site a few days a week. The pay for this position is expected to be $30-$45/hour.

The creative producer will bring brands and products to life by working alongside the internal creative project management team and internal subject matter experts to setup, manage, coordinate external creative production teams' needs to execute creative production events. Your experience across all aspects of production and process/agency management will be engaged in this role.

What You’ll Do: 

• Pre-Production: collaborate with external creative, internal creative project management, and project teams and bring a producer’s perspective on how to best capture, execute and deploy the content per the creative brief within set time-lines and budget, utilizing standards and specifications guidelines. 
• Production: have proficiency with production process, standards and guidelines, licensing contracts, and asset management, as well as an awareness ways-of-working guidelines to deliver solutions as needed to ensure the success of the project and the agency’s ability to execute. You will partner with internal cross-functional teams, external creative agencies, and internal creative project managers to ensure clarity in our creative process.  Production events will happen year-round and across all aspects of our business.
• Post-Production: work across multiple concurrent projects from start to finish while adhering to standards unique to each project. Creative Project Managers, Project Leads, along with Digital, Workfront, Translation and Asset Management Leads will be your partner in ensuring final work meets the project’s original creative vision while adhering to a high standard of quality.  Production workflow and file structure knowledge will be applied to enable easy flow of assets through various teams.  

What You’ll Need: 

• 5+ years’ experience leading creative productions from inception to delivery. Specifically, product marketing campaigns. Experience with live-event productions is a plus.
• BA degree or relevant experience in Advertising, Communications, Media Production, or a related field is desired.
• You will need to have experience in commercial productions, industry standard file formats and specifications, and detail-oriented mindset to ensure that all tactics/deliverables are accounted for per specifications.
• Easily collaborates and with internal partners and external vendors to guide projects forward to completion.
• Working knowledge of content production workflows: photo shoots, video post-production, physical and live events production, and print/product development, etc.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and the ability to guide project decisions independently.
• Creative project management skills – leading, planning, collaborating, executing, and delivering to timelines.
• Proven communicator who successfully manages multiple concurrent campaigns and project types supporting a variety of stakeholders in partnership with creative agencies and vendors.
• Experience with production workflow and project management software:  Workfront, Microsoft Project, Frame.io or similar.

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