JANUARY 9, 2025
This role will be responsible for ensuring that projects are executed smoothly, on time, and within budget, while maintaining the quality and vision of the creative work. The Producer role at bully! blends project management skills with an understanding of the creative process. This position requires a proactive, detail-oriented individual who thrives in problem-solving and has a solid understanding of production processes.
Responsibilities
- Project Management: Manage end-to-end production for assigned projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Project Plans: Craft comprehensive project plans based on the project's treatment and scope, outlining timelines, deliverables, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.
- Coordination & Communication: Act as the primary point of contact between internal teams (creative, technical, and operations) and external stakeholders and clients.
- Scheduling & Resource Allocation: Develop production schedules, request/ensure resource availability, and anticipate potential risks or challenges.
- Budgeting: Oversee production budgets (scoping, monitoring and revising), ensuring projects stay within financial constraints. Monitor out-of-scope requests and initiate additional estimates and approvals. Ensure any budgeting concerns/risks are flagged immediately to leadership.
- Creative Collaboration: Work closely with creative teams to ensure project objectives, vision, and creative goals are met while maintaining logistical and production feasibility.
- Problem-Solving: Resolve issues by identifying solutions and gaining appropriate approvals quickly and efficiently.
- Quality Control: Ensure that final deliverables meet the company’s standard of excellence, client expectations, and project specifications. Contribute to the strategic vision of projects and have ownership of the project’s delivery quality.
- Documentation: Approve and review production-related documents, including contracts, releases, schedules, and production reports (e.g. product review document) from the project coordinator.
- Client Interaction: Participate in client meetings and updates, providing production progress, addressing concerns, and managing expectations.
- Revenue Generation: Manage accounts receivable and billing schedules for revenue and aid in achieving revenue goals. Responsible for weekly client billing administration and work with the finance/accounting team to ensure all invoices are being created and sent out in a timely manner.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience: 4-6 years of experience in a production role (preferably in creative management).
- Strong Project Management Skills: Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
- Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with production tools, software (e.g., scheduling and budgeting software, Adobe Creative Suite, Jira, Slack), and equipment.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage with both internal creative and technical teams as well as clients.
- Problem-Solving: Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills to handle challenges that arise and propose solutions that support project budget needs, project quality, client expectations and team health.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to manage complex logistics with precision and ensure consistency in project execution. This includes but is not limited to: smooth project onboarding, project offboarding, sprint planning, project management (Jira) task breakdown (Epics, Stories, high level tasks), approval processes (internally and externally).
- Team Player: Collaborative attitude with the ability to work effectively with a variety of teams and stakeholders - balancing the need to meet client expectations (with a goal to exceed them) and ensure team health.
- Creative Understanding: An appreciation for creative workflows (a mixture of waterfall and agile) and the ability to maintain a balance between creative aspirations and production limitations.
About bully! entertainment
bully! is an award-winning team of visionary creatives with studios in Baltimore, USA; Chisinau, Moldova; and London, UK. We specialize in crafting extraordinary, immersive customer experiences that seamlessly merge the digital and physical worlds. Celebrated for our unique mix of world-class production, cutting-edge technology, and a down-to-earth approach, we pride ourselves on being partners who make the process as enjoyable as the results. At bully!, creativity meets innovation, and fun is always at the heart of what we do.
To achieve this, we need exceptional individuals: people who radiate creativity, are deeply passionate about their craft, continuously seek innovative solutions, communicate effectively, and, most importantly, understand the power of teamwork and the importance of a supportive, collaborative culture.
Interested in joining the bully! team?
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