Senior Integrated Producer

We’re on the search for a Senior Integrated Producer to join our expanding team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading all aspects of production, including working with Monks’ capabilities and/or production partners, managing relationships, establishing timelines, and determining budgets while reporting to the Executive Producer. 

The ideal candidate will bring creative visions to life and elevate the work through close collaboration with agency creatives and client teams, leveraging AI and innovative technologies, where possible, to enhance production efficiency and quality.

To be successful in this role, you must be adept at problem-solving in a timely, cost-effective manner, capable of juggling multiple projects simultaneously. Familiarity with the daily ebb and flow of an agency and knowledge of how to engage effectively with alignment teams across several offices throughout the Americas is essential.

• Create innovative and meaningful work at the highest craft levels, integrating AI solutions to enhance production quality and efficiency.
• Act as an ambassador for the brand promise, ensuring that each project aligns with the brief and prioritizes fit for format throughout the process.
• Actively participate in creative work sessions with teams, providing production partnership to keep projects within budget while focusing on craft and innovation.
• Educate and socialize best practices and processes between Monks and agency partners, emphasizing the role of technology in improving workflows.
• Manage and develop the pre-bid process, including timelines, ballpark estimates, and potential production partners such as directors, editors, colorists, animators, and sound designers.
• Oversee the global director search and engage all post-production departments to ensure alignment with project goals.
• Manage the director treatment phase, bid process, and bid packages, collaborating closely with production and post-production executive producers.
• Create estimates in collaboration with the production business manager, incorporating insights from AI tools where applicable.
• Facilitate conversations with Production Specialists to ensure all approvals are in place.
• Partner with business affairs for talent and asset management, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
• Lead shoots and post-production, guiding agency and client through the approval process.
• Collaborate with the production business affairs manager and finance to onboard new vendors, issue deal memos, and ensure timely vendor payments.
• Work with account management to share project status and health during weekly team status meetings.
• Complete project wraps with business affairs and finance to prepare for reconciliation.
• Actively contribute to the diversity, equity, and inclusion promise for all productions, ensuring representation in front of and behind the lens, as well as within post-production talent.

• 5-10 years of agency or production experience.
• Strong social, digital, photo and broadcast production experience.
• Highly organized and able to handle multiple work streams at once.
• A production guru able to anticipate issues before they arise and plan for their resolution.
• A skilled, creative, confident presenter and negotiator.
• A sense of humor, outgoing personality, and common sense.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of self-managing and multitasking in a fast-paced, demanding environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to apply critical and strategic thinking.
• Stress-tolerant, quick-thinking, and accurate.
• Ability to quickly grasp new technology concepts, particularly in AI and innovation.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills as both a team leader and collaborator.
• Flexibility, initiative, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Willingness to travel.

• {Any additional skills that are nice to have but not required}

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.