- Title: React Media Content
- Job Requirements: Must be local to location (or willing to work as a local).
React Media is seeking a passionate and dedicated person to join our team full-time as a Line Producer. In this position, you will be overseeing the budgets of current and future digital series, managing timecards and payroll, hiring and onboarding freelance crew, managing production credit card tracking and ensuring all productions are running on time and on budget. Ability to manage, negotiate and communicate deadlines, workflows, and personalities in the day to day is important. The ideal candidate is extremely detail oriented, organized, enthusiastic, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
This position reports to the Head of Production and is full time, hybrid-remote during the pandemic
Responsibilities:
-Recruiting, hiring and onboarding production freelancers and FT staff including PA’s, coordinators, camera operators and other freelance roles as needed.
-Maintaining freelance onboarding documents, start paperwork, worklogs, timecards, documents, and training materials.
-Supports the Head of Production by ensuring production and post stay on time and on budget, including overseeing the day-to-day of production, filming schedules, budgets and procedures.
-Keeps production documents including contracts and budget forms up to date.
-Plan, communicate, manage, and measure milestones, risks, and process improvement opportunities of day-to-day operations and report to the VP of Production.
-Managing projects by building deliverable expectations for external contractors in the Branded/White label category, confirming and tracking deadlines, while delegating tasks to achieve project goals - ongoing and day-to-day.
-Work with the PM to ensure all paperwork is being completed and properly organized.
-Must have a clear sense of post workflows and timelines for short form content delivered at a high volume.
-Must understand how abrupt changes may affect the budget, scheduling, and overtime, and run these changes by the Head of Production.
-Proactively seeks opportunities for improvement while being solution-oriented, and knowing when to pivot or prepare for potential issues.
-Foster a positive working environment by providing clear, specific, timely, and respectful expectations feedback to employees to promote internal growth and foster long-term relationships with post professionals
-Remain calm under pressure and provide clear, calm leadership when conflicting priorities arise.
-Maintains consistent and effective communication with team members, as well as cross-functioning departments.
Position Requirements:
-Must be proficient with Mac OS X, Google Suite, and Greenslate
-Must have experience working in a high-output digital media environment
-Must have experience working with remote editing workflows.
-Knowledge of project management apps: Airtable and Slack
-Knowledge of budgeting formats and software is a plus.
-Has prior experience as a Line Producer or Production Manager
-Strong time management skills; excellent multi-tasker and able to work well in a high-pressure environment - can work under tight deadlines
-Great attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and well organized
-Receptive to feedback and adapts to ongoing changes that naturally come with a dynamic business environment
-Previous experience managing teams professionally and efficiently
-A curious mind that is always looking for new opportunities to problem solve and be creative.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
React Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.