Senior Project Manager, Dazed Studio US [Contract]

Job Title: Senior Project Manager [Freelance/Contract]
Department: Dazed Studio US [NY]

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ABOUT US

Dazed Media is the world’s leading independent media group, renowned for pioneering self-expression and boundary-pushing creativity. Headquartered in London, our fashion and culture brands Dazed, AnOther, AnOther Man and Nowness have a combined audience of 100 million people globally with offices in Dubai, Los Angeles, New York, Seoul and Shanghai.

Dazed Studio, the company’s in-house youth culture entertainment division places brands at the centre of the conversation connecting them with the next generation all over the world via cutting edge insights and strategy; award-winning creative campaigns, and world-class branded entertainment, experiences and events.

Some of our past and current clients include Apple, Tiffany & Co, Tory Burch, Lululemon, Nike, Cash App and Converse.

This role is best suited for a self-motivated individual with an entrepreneurial mindset. While Dazed has been around for 30+ years, our NY team is very much in startup mode.

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The North America Studio team brings the creative, editorial, design and production capabilities of Dazed Media to clients. Dazed Studio work with a multitude of brands across all sectors building and delivering bespoke offering from advertorials and microsites to events, video and audio productions, seeding and activation of content, contract publishing and creative consultancy. You will be client-facing, strategically led and will deliver a wide range of bespoke commercial projects ensuring successful planning, pricing, pitching and timely delivery of projects to clients.

Duties, responsibilities & deliverables

This role is to lead both internal and external workstreams, ensuring the process between the client and Dazed produces output as aligned in scope, upholding both brand and Dazed standards.

Project Development & Execution

• Lead creative teams from studio, editorial, photographic, fashion, film, design and marketing & events departments to execute scope.
• Monitor creative integrity to ensure delivery against agreed deliverables keeping client up to date through meetings, calls and sharing of project timelines.
• Maintain communication with client responding to feedback and sharing with internal team and external creatives.
• Manage costs during production through regular reporting from the project team and updating of budget.
• Pre-empt issues as they arise and deal with them effectively, ensuring minimal impact on the client relationship.
• Establish strong relationships with clients, to encourage trust and loyalty.
• Draft contracts to ensure compliance with rights, usage and legal requirements, finalising through client negotiation
• Attend shoots and client update meetings, preparing relevant documentation and reports.
• Oversee commissioning and ongoing communication with collaborators ensuring adherence to brief and deliverables.
• Ensure each project has a signed contract and relevant documentation on file.
• Ensure invoices are sent to clients and payments have been received.
  
  

Project Wrap

• Manage creation of wrap reports and case studies
• Archive all project budgets, contracts and assets
• Reconcile project budget and report on financials to senior stakeholders.
• Attend project close / debrief meeting

Skills, experience & personal attributes

• 7+ years experience working as a client-facing producer / project manager in a creative environment such as photo / video studio, agency or publishing house is essential.
• Eager to manage projects spanning formats including print, digital, social, photography, editorial, moving image.
• Organised, reliable and time conscious, solution-focused, proactive, problem solver
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience and skill at managing multiple commercial projects generating SOW, budgets, workflows, contracts and SLAs concurrently.
• Excellent communication and client service skills; you are comfortable communicating with in