Production Director; Social​/CAIT

** We’re Vayner Media!
** We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City.

We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few.

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it
. Vayner Media EMEA is strong with a world‑class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi‑brands across the region.

We are looking for a strong
** Production Director,
** with a robust understanding of both social media and production. You are someone confident leading production teams, building strong internal and client relationships, defining delivery frameworks and ope rationalising of the Creator, Affiliate, Influencer and Talent (CAIT) engine. You will support the integration of multiple work streams to ensure seamless social media delivery across the account.

Your role will see you leading production on one of our largest and most exciting clients in EMEA, taking full authority over our production processes, delivery models, and commercial profitability while strengthening client & partner agency relationships both here in the UK and across EMEA.

• Your main responsibilities as a Production Director will be to ope rationalise the CAIT function for a key EMEA client across two markets.

• Architect and own the end-to-end production process within CAIT to ensure seamless, highly efficient content capture on location at third‑party events, pop‑ups, and brand activations.

• Drive efficiencies that joins the dots between cultural signals and relevance across CAIT, Live Shopping, Experiential + proactive production ideas

• Ensure Agency, Client, Vendor, and Legal processes and safety requirements are met across all production locations and event environments.

• Strategically lead the commercial approach, staffing, ways of working, discipline leads, and clients to execute event content productions in a highly cost‑effective and profitable way

• Partner closely with Creative Leads and Production Directors to ope rationalise creator workflows, uphold a consistently high standard of production output, and drive continuous delivery improvements.

• Lead on scope development and commercial structuring to determine deliverables, time frames, budgets, operational workflows, and resource requirements.

• Monitor and report on project progress, drive commercial health, and manage and validate change requests as required.

• Understand current and new partnership platforms - including entertainment sponsor ships + fashion and cultural IP, that enables CAIT integration, experiential and amplification opportunities.

• Work in sync with client calendar and real world moments that can be harnessed into reactive CAIT and culturally impactful production ideas, to show we’re always on to it.

• Taking the driver’s seat and pushing the work forward, with a relentless focus on the details

• Provide motivation and mentorship to the Producers and be the first point of escalation for issue/conflict resolution on all projects.

• Partner with all Agency discipline leads (Client Partnership, Strategy, Creative, Media, Analytics, Finance, Legal, etc.) to ensure client expectations, creative…