Production Director

We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few. 

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We are looking for a strong Production Director, with a robust understanding of both social media and production. You are someone confident leading production teams, building strong internal and client relationships, defining delivery frameworks and operationalising of the Creator, Affiliate, Influencer and Talent (CAIT) engine. You will support the integration of multiple workstreams to ensure seamless social media delivery across the account.

Your role will see you leading production on one of our largest and most exciting clients in EMEA, taking full authority over our production processes, delivery models, and commercial profitability while strengthening client & partner agency relationships both here in the UK and across EMEA.

Here’s where you come in…

• Your main responsibilities as a Production Director will be to operationalise the CAIT function for a key EMEA client across two markets.
• Architect and own the end-to-end production process within CAIT to ensure seamless, highly efficient content capture on location at third-party events, pop-ups, and brand activations.
• Drive efficiencies that joins the dots between cultural signals and relevance across CAIT, Live Shopping, Experiential + proactive production ideas
• Ensure Agency, Client, Vendor, and Legal processes and safety requirements are met across all production locations and event environments.
• Strategically lead the commercial approach, staffing, ways of working, discipline leads, and clients to execute event content productions in a highly cost-effective and profitable way
• Partner closely with Creative Leads and Production Directors to operationalise creator workflows, uphold a consistently high standard of production output, and drive continuous delivery improvements.
• Lead on scope development and commercial structuring to determine deliverables, timeframes, budgets, operational workflows, and resource requirements.
• Monitor and report on project progress, drive commercial health, and manage and validate change requests as required.
• Understand current and new partnership platforms - including entertainment sponsorships + fashion and cultural IP, that enables CAIT integration, experiential and amplification opportunities.
• Work in sync with client calendar and real world moments that can be harnessed into reactive CAIT and culturally impactful production ideas, to show we’re always on to it.

Lead by example

• Taking the driver’s seat and pushing the work forward, with a relentless focus on the details
• Provide motivation and mentorship to the Producers and be the first point of escalation for issue/conflict resolution on all projects.
• Partner with all Agency discipline leads (Client Partnership, Strategy, Creative, Media, Analytics, Finance, Legal, etc.) to ensure client expectations, creative vision, and agency needs are met from briefing through final delivery on projects.
• Tracking financial progression, ensuring it is shared and assessed, taking the lead in suggesting and making adjustments to the project and team as needed.
• Constantly identifying risks and solutions - being the problem solver in ensuring we remain agile and strategic throughout the project lifecycle
• Be heavily client-facing to speak to budget, timing, resource & process considerations, as well as ongoing delivery of our work.

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• Previous experience managing a portfolio of brands
• Have managed work across a range of markets
• Solid production experience in a range of production types, with you as the lead
• Confident in end-to-end management of shoots, from pre-production to post production
• Advanced leadership, management and mentorship skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Positive, driven, go-getter attitude with a strong sense of self-awareness
• Proven negotiation skills 
• Hands-on experience and ownership of complex strategic projects, requiring senior stakeholder management
• Ability to recognise and solve potential problems, escalate issues or conflicts and continually evaluate project effectiveness.
• Manage overall quality of delivery and documentation for the account with an impressive attention to detail
• Deep desire to set teams up for success through clarity, empathy, and a focus on breaking down barriers and moving work forward. 
• A strategic and collaborative  approach to problem-solving rooted in strong critical thinking and reasoning skills
• Ability to thrive and remain agile in a fast-paced, high-performing, and constantly evolving environment
• Understanding of relevant social media platforms and their requirements

Here’s how We Support You…

We regularly review our benefits and are committed to providing a comprehensive programme for our people:

• Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
• YuLife (online discount platform)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
• Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free
• Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
• 2 weeks Work From Anywhere
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class. 

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.K.