Director, Content Production

Description
Responsibilities:

General Production:

· Manage multiple productions of various scale across brands simultaneously. Anticipate changes, risks, and roadblocks and proactively take steps to mitigate and resolve.

· Own and manage relationships with external vendors, agencies, and freelance production talent.

· Operate with a resourceful mindset, maximizing production value while working efficiently within timelines and budgets.

· Own and communicate shoot volume and cadence across the full production calendar.

Pre-Production:

· Review shoot briefs and work with brand partners to ensure shoot needs including creative direction, product focus and assortment, budgets, timelines, etc. are clear and complete.

· Partner with art directors and creative operations to turn briefs into production plans, including timelines, budgets, and resources.

· Build production schedules and timelines for both the internal creative team and any external talent and partners, develop cost estimates and budgets.

· Source, coordinate, and negotiate contracts and budgets with crew, talent, photographers, videographers, stylists, and other vendors. Partner with procurement team, when needed.

· Work with art directors and internal stakeholders to ensure mood-boards, creative direction, and shot lists are aligned with the brief.

· Lead pre-production meetings and coordinate across departments, stakeholders, and external talent and production partners.

· Coordinate product samples with brand teams, ensuring items are ordered, received, and stored ahead of production.

· Secure COIs, permits, equipment, and catering, when needed.

On-Set:

· Provide shoot supervision and overall production oversight, managing productions end-to-end.

· Coordinate internal team, crew, talent, photographers, videographers, stylists, hair & makeup, and agencies on set.

· Manage and track shot progress, deliverables, and budget/resource allocation, keeping production pacing on schedule.

· Run set-readiness checks and quality oversight, troubleshooting issues and facilitating live problem-solving.

· Keep the team and stakeholders updated throughout the shoot day, managing time, approvals, and on-set logistics.

Post-Production:

· Coordinate wrap logistics, invoicing, budget reconciliation, and expense tracking.

· Manage handoffs to edit, retouch, color grading, sound mix, and motion graphics teams.

· Plan post-production review sessions, consolidate feedback, and coordinate revisions through to final approval and delivery.

· Partner with CCH DAM Manager to maintain master asset management, usage rights tracking, file delivery, archiving, and final asset distribution/ rollout.

· Run production debriefs, capture lessons learned and team feedback, and report on project closeout and campaign delivery.

Studio Management and Production Process:

· Maintain the creative photo studio space including equipment, props, product closet, and expendables and update and refresh as needed. Manage product sourcing, inventory, and organization for recurring productions.

· Assess when updates and improvements to the physical space are needed and work with Office Services and necessary vendors to action.

· Build and maintain relationships with a reliable freelance crew network; assess and onboard new vendors as the studio grows.

· Continuously assess and refine both internal and external production workflows. Identify and propose improvements that increase production efficiency and content quality over time.

Qualifications
Qualifications

· 7+ years of photo production experience, ideally in-house or at an agency, managing photo and video productions from concept to delivery.

· Deep understanding of production processes from large scale campaigns to quick content capture, and experience managing multiple shoots at once.

· Proven ability to manage timelines, shot lists, and production crews end-to-end.

· Knowledge of up-to-date industry standard rates for talent, services, usage rights, etc. Strong negotiation and budgeting skills and experience working on productions with large campaign budgets as well as tight, scrappy budgets.

· Ability to help translate creative vision into efficient, cost-effective production execution, while maintaining brand standards and aesthetic.

· Existing network and relationships with photographers, retouchers, stylists, talent agencies, and other production-related partners.

· A proactive, collaborative, solutions-first mindset with a calm, composed presence on set and a can-do approach.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

· Experience interfacing and building relationships with multiple stakeholders and functions across a large, matrixed organization.

· Excellent knowledge of varying file formats and resolutions for social, digital, print.

· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, juggling multiple projects and priorities at all times, with resilience, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented mindset.

· Experience with Wrike, or similar project management tools are a plus.

· Knowledge of photo, video, and lighting equipment. Experience managing a photo studio space a plus.

· Some domestic travel required.