As senior production manager, you'll lead digital production-focused projects through execution, implement effective team approaches, and develop technology tactics that improve the process.
Responsibilities:
✅ Build creative relationships with the agency and client, becoming a trusted partner on digitally-focused opportunities and projects.
✅ Bridge the gap between creative and production/technology as the primary interface with other creative agency teams, content partners, and our digital team.
✅ Work closely with agency teams to understand the creative vision and business goals for all work, and then translate that vision to our production teams and ensure it is achieved.
✅ Introduce new and innovative technologies and ideas to help elevate the digital creative work (motion graphics, AR, websites, and banners, primarily) as well as our process and workflow.
✅ Demonstrate value to agency and client teams daily, helping to merchandise our work and regularly share wins, best practices, and new opportunities.
✅ Support the PM team to manage workload, projects, and processes.
✅ Lead meetings and interface with brand/agency leaders as required during the process – from planning to briefing through delivery.
✅ Prioritizing and communicating daily/weekly work requests and assigning appropriate studio resources based on project scopes for dynamic creative, site builds, apps, OLA, business decks, etc.
✅ Tracking digital studio resources (including offshore) based on availability and skill sets.
✅ Lead weekly account team status meetings to review projects and participate in daily status meetings with other digital studio teams to assess cross-office resource availability (on and offshore).
✅ Oversee the production workflow process, solving conflicts as they arise.
✅ Supporting internal teams and partners in delivering solutions, insights, and recommendations.
✅ Developing direct reports through thoughtful, timely performance reviews and development plans.
✅ Review the team's work and provide directions to elevate the quality of our work and ensure deliverables match the original request.
✅ Commit to evolving the creative practice and bringing outside inspiration whenever possible.
✅ Manage your time efficiently to balance multiple simultaneous projects.
Requirements:
✅ Bachelor's degree (advertising, graphic design, or equivalent preferred) and training in creative software tools such as Adobe CC.
✅ 6-8 years as an account, PM, or production lead with solid digital production and innovative technology expertise (preferably at a creative/digital agency).
✅ Well-versed in all aspects of digital production, with a passion for keeping ahead of emerging technologies to help us innovate our work and process.
✅ Deep experience managing cross-discipline people in the production industry and demonstrated skills in managing and growing a cross-discipline team.
✅ Strong understanding of business and technical processes to enable smart technology solutions.
✅ Demonstrate leadership, confidence, and a positive attitude at all times.
✅ Willingness to travel as needed – you're open to new places, faces, and ideas.
✅ Solid understanding of how dynamic creative (e.g., OLA, OLV, CRM, sites) works, its pros and cons.
✅ Strong collaboration, flexibility, and ability to operate effectively – even in ambiguous circumstances.
✅ Ability to accurately assess team/resource availability and match skill sets for projects.
✅ Skill in breaking down more considerable efforts into digestible tasks for other team members.
✅ Listening, meditating, and issue resolution skills.
✅ Senior client-facing skills integral to the position (relationship management, deep technology/digital production knowledge).
⭐ Publicis Global Delivery is using Agile Recruitment for this process. You can find the steps you will take below:
Step 1:
You will answer three quick screening questions. [5 minutes]
Step 2:
You will do a Torre Testing & Certification session to validate your skills [60 minutes].
(We will send you the link to this session via Torre Messenger as soon as the recruiter confirms that you fulfill the requirements for this job opening. This usually happens in less than 24 hours.
Step 3:
The Publicis' HR team will check your profile to start their flow. [24 hours]
Step 4:
HR Interview [40 minutes].
Step 5:
Offshore interview [40 minutes].
