Conscious Minds Studios

As a Studio Producer, you will manage assigned project workflows from start to finish. You are the Quarterback – delegating and managing expectations with clear communication, time management, and task management for the creative and strategy teams. You also coordinate with production and post support that’s flown in at key times. By supporting project leadership with day-to-day client comms with the intent of developing a deep understanding of the brand, you’ll be helping connect the dots cross-functionally, ensuring a smooth production process and strategic success. This position is for a social-forward account so the content is responsive and quick-turn, and may require occasional travel.

Studio Producers report to the Director of Studio Operations and are managed by Executive Producers on projects.

Responsibilities:

• Support Executive Producers with day-to-day team and project management.
• Ensure that internal teams remain aligned on project goals and timelines.
• Schedule creative and multi-department meetings.
• Support Executive Producers with day-to-day client communication. Ensure clients remain aligned on goals, timelines, milestones, and next steps. Schedule client meetings.
• Work with creative leadership to plan resources and content creation timelines
• Anticipate and mitigate risks involving delivery and project milestones
• Manage the creative team job folder and project management platform
• Manage day-to-day comms and assignments with a rotating roster of freelancers
• Manage freelancer invoices and team expenses. Submit monthly creative budget wrap folders to accounting
• Lead and delegate assignments to Associate Studio Producer under your leadership when/if assigned to a project.
• Provide weekly project status updates to Executive Producers on the creative team budget and schedule

Requirements

You’re the right fit for this job if you:

• Have a good sense of humor
• Thrive in fast-paced environments surrounded by hyper creative people
• Take pride in mastering chaos & are experienced in the pursuit of making things make sense
• Find joy in a well-organized spreadsheet and also a good meme
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills (reaction gifs count)
• Think ahead and are proactive about solving problems
• Have 4-7 years of account / project management experience at a production studio / agency or similar
• Have experience with social media management, working with creative strategies and executing quickturn (<24hr) social content
• Can manage several parallel workstreams at once
• Have a high level of drive, energy, persistence, and initiative. Obsess over the details: receive and remember client feedback so they’re not repeating themselves
• Have experience working remotely without regular IRL contact with your team
• Can identify and troubleshoot communication, logistical, and scheduling challenges
• Have a working knowledge of a variety of content creation processes

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Training & Development
• Work From Home

Compensation Range: $80,000 – $100,000 annually + our standard employee benefits package. This is the salary range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, and other job-related qualifications/skills. We reserve the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Conscious Minds is an independent, creative company that specializes in branded storytelling and cross-platform content innovation. The company has offices in Pasadena, CA, and Portland, OR. Clients include Nike, Google, Facebook, Open Door, Uber Eats, and Roots.

Conscious Minds is a people-first work-culture. We’re big on community, trust, transparency, and respect for one another. We operate strategically as an integrated team from Strategy through Post Production (and everything in-between). We expect our team to work hard, wear multiple hats, lean into efficiencies, and break traditional norms in how we re-think storytelling with our clients.
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ABOUT THIS ROLE

Our Senior Art Directors are first and foremost strong conceptual thinkers. They are people who can knock out multiple ideas for a brief and back it up with kick-ass design skills. In this role you must have a passion for storytelling and an equal passion for current trends.

Additionally, you have dynamic personalities, are culturally in the know, and are a natural team player. Lastly, you thrive in a fast-paced yet fun environment and want to tackle any challenge thrown your way.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conceptual thinker with strong design chops
• Works directly with a writer and reports to the ACD and CD
• Manages time on multiple projects
• Work seamlessly with the internal team, freelancers, and production partners
• Strong presentation and client-facing skills
• Traditional agency experience is a plus
• Time spent on shoots is a plus
• Demonstrated experience working with a kids audience is a plus

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design, Art Direction or related field

QUALIFICATIONS

• Highly conceptual thinking with excellent design skills
• Experience with photo art direction.
• Comfortable working on-set.
• 4+ years experience in an agency environment
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Professional presentation capabilities
• Excellent communication skills and team player

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Training & Development
• Work From Home

Conscious Minds is an independent, creative company specializing in branded storytelling and cross-platform content innovation. The company has offices in Pasadena, CA, and Portland, OR. Clients include Nike, Google, Facebook, Jack In the Box, Open Door, Uber Eats, and Roots.

Conscious Minds is a people-first work culture. We’re big on community, trust, transparency, and respect for one another. We operate strategically as an integrated team from Strategy through Post Production (and everything in between). We expect our team to work hard, wear multiple hats, lean into efficiencies, and break traditional norms in how we re-think storytelling with our clients.

Conscious Minds Studios

ABOUT CONSCIOUS MINDS

Conscious Minds, is an independent, creative company that specializes in branded storytelling and cross-platform content innovation. The company has offices in Pasadena, CA and Portland, OR. Clients include Nike, Google, Facebook, Open Door, Uber Eats, and more.

Conscious Minds is a people first work-culture. We’re big on community, trust, transparency, and respect for one another. We operate strategically as an integrated team from Strategy through Post Production (and everything in-between). We expect our team to work hard, wear multiple hats, lean into efficiencies, and break traditional norms in how we re-think storytelling with our clients.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

As Senior Post Producer, your primary responsibility is to be an ambassador for our post team’s People, Process, Product, and Profits on each of your assigned projects.

You will oversee all aspects of post production on assigned projects from project planning through wrap. As Senior Post Producer, you will lead, manage and provide clear expectations and consistent accountability to the Post Team working on your projects. You’ll be asked to roll-up-your-sleeves as a player-coach and provide mentorship for the less-experience producers on the team.

The Senior Post Producer reports to the Director, Post Production and is managed by an EPs on projects.

Project Planning

• Attend Project Planning Meetings lead by Executive Producers
• Support Director, Post Production with bidding, scheduling and provide post solutions on assigned projects
• Ensure appropriate amounts of post resources and time are allocated to produce assigned projects
• Work with Director, Post Production to resource and assign staff for assigned projects

Creative Development

• Attend Internal Creative Reviews and ensure assigned projects remain within the post scope
• Work with Executive Producer to adapt post vision and provide solutions as creative develops

Pre-Production / Production

• Clearly communicate post expectations/needs/hand offs to production (i.e specs, etc)
• Coordinate with Line Producer any post staffing needs during production (VFX supervisor, etc)

Post Production

• Co-lead Post Production Kick Off Meetings and ensure creative and post departments are aligned on the creative, deliverables, timing and resources.
• Lead, manage and provide clear expectations and consistent accountability to Post Production staff including ensuring internal staff understands Harvest hour targets.
• Ensure projects remain on budget, on schedule and are delivered to the level of quality expected by clients, including all final media management.
• Responsible for reviewing vendor/freelancer estimates and ensuring CM is obtaining fair market value for services. Negotiate as needed.
• Ensure post production staff understand CM’s process and operate within Post Guidelines
• Work with Studio Producers to ensure alignment is maintained between creative and post production teams
• Attend live edit reviews between creative, client and editorial team
• Provide EP and Director, Post Production with weekly project status updates (internal burn reports and external costs)

Project Wrap

• Actualize post production budgets (timecards, invoices, etc) for assigned projects
• Ensure all full time post production staff have completed logging hours
• Provide a digital wrap book to the Director, Post Production
• Schedule wrap meeting with Executive Producer and Controller
• Post digital wraps should be turned in no later than 1 week after delivery date
• Attend review meetings between all departments and provide constructive feedback

Requirements

• 6+ years post production experience at a production studio/agency or similar.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, great attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Proactive mindset with high level of drive, energy, persistence and initiative.
• Experience working remotely without in-person daily supervision.
• Ability to identify and troubleshoot communication, logistical, and scheduling challenges.
• A depth of technical knowledge in production and post-production

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