Associate Producer

VaynerX

VaynerX is a family of companies building brands for the now. Founded by Chairman Gary Vaynerchuk in January 2017, the modern-day parent company is home to relevance-driving businesses including VaynerMedia, ChukMedia, Tamara Group, Gallery Media Group, Eva Nosidam Productions, Tingley Lane Trading, and VaynerSpeakers.

ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA

VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies. 

This position is full-time, and requires a hybrid work schedule (in-office and on-location) 3 days/week in our Los Angeles, CA office. 

Who you are: You are a growing creative producer with a passion for production execution, whose interests spans agency production, line production, post production and event-based activations. You are equal parts creative minded and organizationally exceptional. You are a hands-on producer who completely immerses oneself in the work by leaning in to shepherd campaigns across multiple channels, for content that requires real-time culture and relevance opportunities. You are a collaborative team member who learns and develops alongside your peers by actively engaging in the work. You are adept at taking direction and building upon initial concepts, demonstrating adaptability to new ideas and evolving ways of thinking.

Role Summary

• Collaborating with agency partners and internal producers to bring a production lens to early ideation, bringing fresh ideas and informed suggestions to identify risks, efficiencies, and executional opportunities.
• Work directly with internal agency leads across disciplines to assess project feasibility and curate the right resources, internally and externally.
• Executing socially-led campaigns with budgets up to $250k, by identifying production partners, building timelines, budgets, and developing informed production plans under the guidance of your production leadership
• Identify potential roadblocks while proactively bringing forward creative solutions in effort to keep campaigns driving forward, escalating and communicating to leaders when needed.
• Act as a client-facing production contact, working in partnership with your agency team and with an understanding of what each respective team member needs to be successful. 
• Confirm trafficking, versioning, and metadata across internal pipelines and agency deliverables.
• Work closely with Business Affairs to review concepts, talent agreements, usage terms and other vendor and legal contracts.
• Responsible for all vendor paperwork and invoicing.
• Interest in growing your understanding of all types of production workflows from development through delivery while championing creative excellence.
• Support senior producers on larger and more complex campaigns

Experience & Qualifications

• 2-3+ years of experience in a production role within an agency, production company or equivalent
• Expected to travel as needed for productions, which may include evenings and weekends.
• Proven skills in production finance from tracking budgets to wrapping, submitting vendor payments and processing crew timecards.
• Experience in one or multiple areas of production: social, digital, print, experiential/ events, post production, podcasts, DOOH/OOH, PR, custom fabrication of influencer kits, with the building blocks of production instincts ingrained in your mindset.
• Working knowledge of Union and Non Union considerations
• Collaborative communicator with the ability to manage pressure and extremely tight deadlines. 
• Must be proactive, highly organized, detail-oriented, and solutions-driven in an ever evolving production landscape
• Interest and experience with AI integrations with production is a plus