Head of Production

2 Months ago • All levels • Operations • $125,000 PA - $142,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Head of Production (HOP) manages the Commercial Producing Team at Company 3's New York City studio. This hybrid role requires liaison with Sales, Production Operations, Engineering, Client Services, and global studio locations to ensure seamless client experiences. The HOP will handle multiple projects, manage deadlines, negotiate with stakeholders, anticipate problems, develop efficient processes, and foster a positive work environment. Responsibilities include managing the commercial color producer team, overseeing artists and producers, ensuring proper training and workflow, collaborating on projects with supporting EPs and HOPs globally, working closely with Sales, resolving employee issues, managing artists' schedules and budgets, providing technical advice to clients, ensuring accurate bidding and billing, and partnering with the production department to avoid schedule issues.
Must have:
  • Oversee commercial producers
  • Manage multiple projects & deadlines
  • Extensive experience in commercial advertising
  • Strong leadership & communication skills
  • Negotiate with stakeholders
  • Develop efficient processes
Perks:
  • Comprehensive health, retirement, and insurance benefits (for eligible employees)
  • Paid time off (for eligible employees)

Job Details

Business Unit: Company 3
Position: Head of Production
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
*Pay Range: $125,000 - $142,500 USD annually

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Head of Production (HOP) will report to the President, Company 3, New York and will manage the Commercial Producing Team at our Studio located in New York City. This is a hybrid role. The HOP will liaise with Sales, Production Operations, Engineering and Client Services as well as all Company 3/Method Inc. global studio locations to ensure a seamless client experience. 
 
The HOP will need to be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously, manage deadlines and expectations, and negotiate with various stakeholders. The HOP will anticipate problems and provide proactive solutions as well as develop processes that lead to better departmental efficiencies. The HOP will develop their team and will promote a positive working environment. 

MAIN DUTIES:
Management: The HOP oversees and manages the commercial color producer team. They manage time and attendance, maintain job descriptions and provide performance feedback/ reviews on an ongoing basis, and help to identify and develop talent, including active participation in recruiting process for open or new positions in team. 
  • Oversee artists, producers, associate producers, and work directly with the Director of Production Operations as it relates to the dissemination of information regarding equipment upgrades, workflow, protocols, and new technology.  
  • Ensure commercial team is properly informed and trained on all technology and workflows; grow/develop new talent within the commercial department (ie. commercial color assists, coordinators, emerging artists, etc.). 
  • Communicate regularly to artists, assistants, producers of department changes in protocols, workflows, staffing, equipment and facility updates. 
  • Oversee and /or help manage complex projects from color to Online/VFX; work closely with supporting EPs and HOPs in the commercial division on a global level. This includes streamlining processes and communication efforts to help maximize resource utilization across the group.   
  • Work directly with Sales on a regular basis to establish a direct line of communication and understand the nuances of each client individually; support the needs of sales from a production standpoint wherever possible. 
  • Work with HR to resolve employee conflict and issues. 
Artist: The HOP ensures artists’ schedules are being managed properly by the production/scheduling team; be accommodating to our clients and solutions oriented. They will provide artists production support when needed and see that operational requests are being fulfilled when necessary. They will take part in the ownership of the local budget broken out by artist and understand how the budget is reflective of revenue forecasting. 
Clients: The HOP will technically advise clients on workflow and/or alternate workflows that may meet their requirements, maintain client facing relations for onsite customers, including participating in workflow meetings and client consultations as needed by Producers.  They will pursue and manage relationships with clients operationally and technically speaking, as well as ensure the production team is responding to clients in a timely manner with accurate up to date information.  
Bidding, Budgets, and Billing: They will ensure bids are accurate to the work requested; bids will be approved by sales prior to client review, work with the producers and clients (when needed) to accommodate their budget restraints per project; this will be collaborative effort with sales included. They will also review Work Orders to ensure all billable services are being accounted for when applicable. 
Execution of Job: The HOP will partner with the production dept to avoid weakness, bottlenecks, and risks in the schedule. They will foster strong internal communications to keep staff informed of ongoing jobs, delivery deadlines and resource availability, manage expectations of producers on how tasks are prioritized within the team, and monitor the commercial color team to ensure staffing is being utilized in the most efficient way. 

WHAT YOU BRING:
The ideal candidate will have previous working experience overseeing Producers in a Commercial Post environment. They must have previous experience managing team/resources on projects, extensive experience and knowledge of the Commercial and Advertising industries, and strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. They must be able to anticipate problems and provide proactive solutions as well as develop processes that lead to better departmental efficiencies, and they will have the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, manage deadlines and expectations, and negotiate with various stakeholders.  

ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Company 3, including its various business units and family of brands, provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more.

Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:

Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.

It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the Company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or otherwise need any accommodation or support in order to participate in the application process.

*The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the range may be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs. 

The benefits for eligible part-time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local benefits plan offerings as adopted and amended from time to time will apply.

The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws.

This position is for an existing vacancy. Both external and internal candidates can apply for this role through the Company’s Career Page. The Company generally only contacts those individuals who have submitted an application which it wishes to interview. The application window for this position is expected to close by May 19, 2025.

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About The Company

Company 3 is a comprehensive postproduction facility for features, episodic, commercials, and music videos. Known for its creative color artistry, pioneering technology, and global reach, Company 3 is trusted to deliver a quality product every time. It is home to one of the largest and most talented pools of colorists and visual effects artists working in post-production today with a client list that includes many of the most respected and talented film and entertainment professionals in the industry.


Company 3 offers solutions-based services ranging from color correction, Digital Intermediate (DI), and file-based workflows to visual effects and online services. Through its virtual outposts, Company 3 Colorists are available to clients around the world.

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