Production Director

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR

Who You Are

You’re a born organizer and a believer in healthy processes. You admire efficiency and quality creative work equally: you get your kicks advocating for good ideas while keeping things running like clockwork. You’re that rare transcendent being that lives at the corner of driven and personable. Above all you approach any project with a solution oriented mindset and are excited to tackle new challenges. You’re the Production Director we’re looking for, and we want you on our team.

What You’ll Do

As a Production Director at Madwell, you’ll be working alongside our strategy, creative, social, and media teams to shepherd a steady flow of projects from conception to delivery, always ensuring that Big Ideas don’t dwarf business goals—or get sidelined by the bottom line. You’ll work across many of our top accounts. You’ll balance your time between overseeing a team of Producers and working directly with internal leadership to develop comprehensive plans and ensure we deliver as promised. You’ll be an in-house expert on everything related to project management and production, and you’ll routinely identify new opportunities to bring efficiency and structure to the teams. You’ll report to our VP of Production to help evolve and implement new and stronger processes, keeping projects productive and healthy over time.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Overall Leadership & Team Management 

• Leading and mentoring a team of 2-4 producers.
• Collaborating and mentoring direct reports in defining and achieving the best possible outcome for all projects. 
• Work closely with the Production leads and VP of Production in determining team bandwidths and assigning producers to new and upcoming clients and or projects. 
• Develops annual/quarterly reviews and growth plans for all direct reports
• Engages in hands-on coaching and mentoring
• Inspires and energizes team, and always leads by example
• Ensures the team understands the overall vision, guiding principles, and expected standards

Project Management/Production

• Drives operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects for one or more brands
• Excels at creating complex road maps and timelines 
• Masters project management tools to ensure teams tasks and deliverables are clear and actionable 
• Serves as escalation point and problem solver for project delivery concerns
• Coaching and mentoring on all project management fundamentals
• Familiar with 360 production and able to navigate how to to bring content, experiential, digital content to life 

Communication & Collaboration

• Ability to navigate open-ended situations (new business pitches, industry events, conferences, etc)
• Effectively communicates complex information to the team and/or clients

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