Producer, Associate

Business Unit: Company 3

Position: Producer, Associate

Location: Santa Monica, CA (On-Site)

Pay Range: $22.00 - $30.00 hourly USD

The Associate Producer functions as an extension of the Producer and is a main point of contact while working with internal and external teams to organize, supervise, and monitor the progress of projects. This position is on the Episodic Production team and is responsible for supporting the production process from initial client contact, to bidding, scheduling and delivery.

Possessing a strong sense of urgency, the Associate Producer demonstrates an ability to work successfully within a fast-paced and collaborative environment, delivering accurate and quality work on schedule, and has excellent skills in building relationships and communicating effectively.

In an operations capacity, this role requires a highly professional demeanor and diplomacy when dealing with clients, production management, coworkers, and artists. The Associate Producer relies on previous post‑production experience and will draw from what was learned from coordination of past projects combined with the company and client processes. The Associate Producer reports into the Head of Production and actively provides support and executes task‑based work for the episodic team.

Schedule and

Location:

This position will require working in our Santa Monica studio on a regular basis and you may also be required to travel and work from our studio in Hollywood, as needed. The AP typical schedule will be from X to X and must be able to work variable shifts, as needed. Available to work overtime and variable shifts, including late nights, weekends and holidays, as necessary per business needs.

• Assist in the collection and logging of project statuses and key information.
• Keep the production team up to date on project status.
• Support color assists with project information, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring they have the elements to complete their tasks.
• Interface with client if required elements for jobs are missing.
• Assist producer in the creation, actualizing and billing of work orders.
• Ensure all resources assigned to job are available as scheduled.
• Make sure projects and resources are ready for sessions to begin on time.
• Set a positive example for the Production Coordinators and help mentor your new team members based on guidance from your producer.
• Work with Studio Operations team to setup and support virtual sessions for offsite clients.
• Work with Producer and assistants to troubleshoot any session related problems.
• Assist in greeting and escorting clients to the bays upon arrival.
• Assist in checking in on artists, clients, assists, and client services on a regular basis to make sure the session is well supported.
• Notify the Producer if any delivery deadlines that will or are in jeopardy of being missed.
• Track revised projects and ensure they are archived daily by the Assist team.
• Work with Production Managers to effectively manage SAN storage capacity.
• Communicating with our Engineers if any network issues arise.
• Engage Engineering staff to resolve urgent technical problems.
• Coordinating project details across sister facilities.
• Develop understanding of the relation between production team and the various support teams (Operations, Assists, Scheduling)
• Support the primary producer in managing artist schedules on a daily basis.
• Collaborate with the scheduling team to gather artists’ holds and share them with the client as required.

• Ability to work successfully with different personality types and work styles
• Strong sense of urgency and prioritization skills
• Ability to change priorities quickly as project requirements may shift
• Comfortable communicating high status clients and senior…