Head of Production at Art&Graft

We’re looking for an experienced Head of Production to lead production across Art&Graft and manage our brilliant team of Producers.

You’ll have oversight across our full slate of live and upcoming work, making sure projects are properly scoped, resourced and delivered to the highest creative and commercial standards. You’ll support and develop our Producers, helping them solve problems, manage risk and make strong decisions around budgets, margins, schedules and teams.

You’ll be a senior production point of contact across our key client relationships, bringing continuity between projects and making sure new briefs transition smoothly into production.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who can see the bigger picture while being happy to get into the detail when needed – helping us continually improve how we produce work and creating the conditions for our teams to do their best work.

• An experienced production leader with a strong background in design, motion, animation and creative production.
• A supportive and generous people manager who knows how to get the best from Producers and help them develop.
• Commercially minded and confident with budgets, margins, forecasting and the financial realities of running creative productions.
• An excellent scoper – able to turn ambitious creative briefs into realistic teams, schedules and budgets.
• A trusted partner to clients, comfortable building strong relationships and handling difficult conversations when needed.
• Calm under pressure, with the experience and judgement to find a way through complex production challenges.
• Highly organised, with the ability to maintain oversight across multiple projects, teams and priorities without getting lost in the detail.
• Strategic and forward-thinking – able to spot risks, resource requirements and opportunities before they become urgent.
• Collaborative, positive and low-ego; happy to lead from the front and step in wherever needed.
• Passionate about great creative work and creating the conditions for teams to do their best work.
• Well connected within the creative industry, with a strong network of production and freelance talent.
• At least 10 years’ experience in creative production, including significant experience in a senior production leadership role.

• Take overall responsibility for the smooth running of production across Art&Graft.
• Lead and develop the Producer team, maintaining visibility across live and upcoming projects and providing oversight, support and clear direction.
• Act as the senior production escalation point and ensure consistently high production standards across the studio.

• Line-manage and develop the Producer team through regular 1:1s, feedback and support.
• Create an environment in which Producers can operate with autonomy, develop their skills and take ownership while knowing when and how to elevate issues.

• Maintain a studio-wide view of live and upcoming productions, identifying risks, capacity issues and potential problems early.
• Where needed, step in to directly produce or provide additional production cover during periods of high workload, Producer absence or particularly complex projects.

• Oversee the scoping and budgeting of new productions, working with Producers and creative leads to establish the right approach, team, schedule and cost.
• Review Producer budgets and take particular ownership of larger, more complex or commercially sensitive scopes.
• Maintain visibility of project margins across the studio, supporting Producers with overages, extensions, scope changes and commercial negotiations and ensuring projects remain commercially healthy throughout…