Senior Producer, Business Development – Contract

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

📋 Description

• Assist the Business Development team on a fixed three-month contract that bridges creative, production, and new business initiatives.

• Convert experiential concepts into practical, thoroughly researched production plans and financially viable budgets.

• Evaluate incoming RFPs, creative briefs, and experiential concepts for feasibility in production, scope, timing, and costs.

• Turn creative ideas into actionable production strategies, determining materials, vendors, processes, and technical requirements.

• Create initial production timelines to support pitch development.

• Construct detailed, line-item production budgets for experiential campaigns, brand activations, pop-ups, events, and brand experiences.

• Generate cost estimates for fabrication, scenic production, AV, venues, staffing, transportation, logistics, permitting, labor, travel, and other expenditures.

• Investigate market pricing and acquire preliminary quotes from vendors.

• Ensure margin requirements are in line with established pricing standards.

• Formulate budget scenarios and provide value-engineering recommendations.

• Record assumptions, exclusions, dependencies, and unverified costs in estimates.

• Collaborate with Business Development, Account, and Creative teams on budgets ready for pitches and production slides.

• Support RFP responses and competitive pitches by offering production insights, feasibility evaluations, cost breakdowns, and initial timelines.

• Identify production risks, cost sensitivities, and scope discrepancies, recommending alternative solutions.

• Maintain vendor pricing data, cost benchmarks, and estimating resources.

• Contribute to budget templates, estimating tools, and pre-sale production processes.

• Coordinate production budgeting with agency fees and staffing to ensure alignment of production costs, team structure, resourcing, and overall pitch budgets.

• Concentrate on bidding and proposal efforts; on-site event execution and post-award production management are outside the scope of this contract.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in experiential production, event production, bidding, estimating, and production on the agency side.

• Strong knowledge of experiential marketing, including fabrication, scenic builds, staffing, logistics, and live-event requirements.

• Demonstrated capability to create detailed production budgets for pitches, RFPs, and new business proposals.

• Experience in sourcing vendors and validating initial production costs.

• Strong financial acumen, with an understanding of production pricing, agency fees, markups, and gross margin.

• Ability to interpret creative concepts and translate them into actionable production plans and realistic estimates.

• Proficient in spreadsheets and budget development tools.

• Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving abilities.

• Capacity to manage multiple concurrent pitches and deliver accurate work within tight deadlines.

• A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to work effectively across creative and commercial teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and creative environment.

• Gain hands-on experience in the experiential production field.

• Collaborate with talented professionals across various teams.

• Competitive compensation package.