Lead Producer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Convert creative ideas and media briefs into detailed production plans, encompassing timelines, budgets, vendors, deliverables, and platform format specifications.

• Oversee the daily production of audiovisual assets for paid advertising campaigns, which include video, photo, and motion ad formats.

• Manage video and photo shoots from start to finish, covering pre-production, on-set execution, post-production, and final delivery.

• Take responsibility for the production of paid campaign creative at scale, ensuring the creative vision, production quality, and channel specifications are maintained across various formats and cutdowns.

• Develop and oversee production budgets while reporting expenditures against the plan.

• Source, negotiate with, and supervise production companies, directors, crew, studios, post houses, editors, photographers, retouchers, and voiceover talent.

• Arrange crew, equipment, talent, locations, travel, wardrobe, props, hair and makeup, permits, and schedules.

• Handle talent bookings in collaboration with Legal, covering usage rights, buyouts, and renewals; manage clearances for music, footage, and images.

• Oversee the post-production workflow, which includes editing, grading, sound, versioning, aspect ratio adjustments, platform cutdowns, and delivery to media/trafficking teams.

• Ensure that productions adhere to responsible gaming and advertising standards across various US state gambling advertising regulations.

• Enhance production workflows, templates, and scalable processes to support high-volume paid ad output.

• Collaborate with media teams and platforms to uphold best practices in paid social advertising.

• Within the first 90 days, manage one paid campaign from brief to delivery, develop production budget and vendor templates, and evaluate what could be transitioned in-house.

⛳️ Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience in producing paid advertising, performance marketing content, or integrated ad campaigns.

• Proven experience in managing productions from creative development to final delivery, including multi-variant output for paid media testing.

• Demonstrated ownership of budgets for productions of significant scale.

• Solid understanding of usage rights, talent contracts, music licensing, and media running-rights terms.

• Excellent organizational and project management abilities across multiple concurrent productions, utilizing tools like Airtable.

• Familiarity with paid media platform specifications: Meta, TikTok, YouTube, CTV, and programmatic platforms.

• Capacity to remain calm under pressure and communicate effectively about achievable outcomes.

• Experience in sports, entertainment, gaming, or iGaming production is a plus.

• Understanding of US gambling advertising compliance across various state jurisdictions is an advantage.

• Direct experience collaborating with media/performance marketing teams to guide creative testing and iteration is a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits information is available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.

• Opportunities for in-person onboarding and cultural immersion experiences in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires.

• Company-sponsored travel and participation for relevant onsite interviews or "Launching into Better: LIVE" sessions.