Senior Producer

Reports to:

Chief Operations Officer (COO)

Location:

San Diego, CA (onsite/hybrid) About Us

Grizzly is an independent creative agency. We guide brands onward™ to challenge convention and impact culture. We work at the convergence of branding and advertising — blending strategy, design, and storytelling to build deeper connections between brands and people.

We partner with brands pioneering new futures. The trailblazers. The visionaries. The courageous. The businesses of tomorrow that believe in a better world and are hell-bent on building it. Adventurous Brands™ create and lead categories, secure the world’s work, and change how we live. We put creativity to work for business because we believe the most innovative brands have the power to affect just about anything.

They challenge convention, impact culture, and forge connections. We help them navigate an increasingly complex and challenging world. This is how we guide brands onward.

The Senior Creative Producer will lead complex, high-impact creative initiatives and oversee internal and external partner relationships, with full accountability for the production and delivery of exceptional creative work for Grizzly’s clients. This role operates as a senior strategic and operational leader within the agency, partnering closely with Client Services, Creative, Strategy, and external vendors to drive excellence across all phases of production.

The Senior Creative Producer sits in a client-facing role and brings a strong point of view, anticipates risk, and proactively solves creative, operational, and logistical challenges. Above all, this role ensures work is delivered on time, on budget, and at the highest creative standard, consistently exceeding client expectations.

• Establish exceptional operational standards and employ best practices to ensure that creative efforts run smoothly for clients, partners and the agency

• Lead the development, execution, and ongoing management of project scopes, timelines, budgets, and staffing plans from project inception through delivery

• Oversee multiple complex creative initiatives simultaneously, including integrated campaigns, website development, branding, naming, digital content, and video and/or photo production

• Establish and maintain detailed schedules and budgets, securing senior-level internal and external approvals and ensuring cross-functional alignment throughout the lifecycle of each project

• Identify risks early and implement mitigation strategies to protect scope, timeline, budget, and creative integrity

• Audit existing work streams, optimize process where needed, remove barriers

• Serve as a senior production leader and strategic partner to internal agency teams, ensuring the client’s vision and business objectives are translated into executable, high-quality creative work

• Cultivate a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning within the cross-functional team at the agency

• Drive clear, consistent communication across internal teams and client stakeholders, setting expectations and ensuring accountability for deliverables and timelines

• Act as a key decision-maker in all post-sale project meetings, proactively anticipating production challenges and guiding teams toward effective, creative solutions

• Oversee and synthesize feedback across stakeholders, ensuring alignment and efficiency throughout concepting, production, and post-production

• Provide leadership during brainstorms and creative reviews to ensure ideas are strategically sound, executable, and aligned with client goals

• Deliver world-class client service that strengthens relationships, drives trust, and supports organic growth…