Senior Producer

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Great creative work needs more than a strong idea—it needs exceptional production behind it. As a Senior Producer with Hearst Made
, you’ll lead the production engine that transforms ambitious branded-content concepts into compelling social video and photography for some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Hearst Magazines is one of the world’s largest publishers of premium content, with a portfolio of more than 30 iconic brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s BAZAAR, Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, and Town & Country. We reach more than 165 million people every month across our print, digital, video, and social platforms. Our global presence spans 25 countries, and we are committed to delivering high-quality content that informs, inspires, and entertains audiences worldwide.

• Lead production planning and execution across multiple concurrent branded video and photography projects, developing schedules, budgets, and resource plans that deliver against scope.
• Translate directors’ creative visions into executable production plans, identifying budget, timing, logistics, and feasibility considerations early and bringing solutions to the table.
• Build and manage production budgets from bidding through actualization, negotiating costs, tracking spend against estimates, monitoring variances, and maintaining financial accountability.
• Source and manage DPs, social content creators, photographers, stylists, crews, freelancers, vendors, studios, locations, equipment, and other production partners.
• Drive all aspects of pre-production, including locations and permits, travel, production vehicles, props, catering, insurance and COIs, releases, call sheets, and other shoot logistics.
• Run on-set operations, keeping schedules, budgets, logistics, safety, and deliverables on track while solving challenges in real time and creating a professional environment for cast and crew.
• Coordinate organized handoffs to post-production, ensuring assets, schedules, specifications, and deliverable requirements are communicated clearly and completely.
• Guide and mentor production managers and coordinators, allocate work effectively, serve as an escalation point for complex projects, and continuously improve production workflows, templates, rate cards, tools, and partner networks.

• 5+ years of production experience in branded content, advertising, publishing, digital media, a production company, or a related environment.
• Significant hands‑on experience producing video and photography from pre‑production through shoot, wrap, and actualization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex productions involving multiple deliverables, stakeholders, locations, talent, budgets, and timelines.
• Strong working knowledge of production crews, equipment, studios, locations, permitting, insurance, releases, licensing, and production compliance.
• Experience sourcing, negotiating with, and managing external vendors, freelancers, crews, and production partners.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or guiding production team members, with an ability to provide clear direction and thoughtful support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with creative leadership, clients, internal partners, vendors, and crews.
• Strong judgment, resourcefulness, and attention to detail, with the ability to identify production risks early, recommend solutions, and remain effective as priorities change.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while protecting creative quality, timelines, budgets, and agreed‑upon scope.
• This role is based in New York City and requires working in the office four days per week.

• Work with the Best:
  Collaborate with top‑tier professionals across media, advertising, tech, fashion, lifestyle, and publishing, shaping the future of these dynamic industries.
• Grow Your
  
  Skills:
  
  Unlock your potential with access to innovative training programs, immersive workshops, and exclusive industry events.
• Work‑Life Harmony:
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