Commercial Production Manager

About the role

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing trusted local news and services. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. The Commercial Production Manager will lead a distributed team of approximately 8–10 commercial producers across multiple TEGNA markets, providing leadership, coaching, prioritization, and operational support to ensure high‑quality commercial video content is delivered for clients and sales partners. The role partners with local sales leadership to build effective workflows, balance client needs with production resources, and continuously improve commercial creative development and delivery. Location: Any TEGNA station within the Northwest region, preferably Portland, OR or Seattle, WA.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of approximately 8–10 commercial producers across multiple TEGNA markets. Establish clear expectations, provide regular feedback, support professional development, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, creativity, and high performance.
• Provide oversight and direction for commercial production from concept through final delivery, ensuring work is completed efficiently, on time, within budget, and to established quality standards.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with local sales leaders and sales teams. Serve as a trusted production partner who understands business priorities, client needs, and market realities and helps teams develop practical solutions that support revenue and client retention.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve systems and processes that create seamless collaboration between sales and production. Establish clear expectations, roles, timelines, and communication practices across teams.
• Manage production capacity and priorities across multiple markets, balancing workloads and deploying resources effectively to meet client and business needs.
• Lead teams through evolving production processes, organizational changes, and new technologies and tools, including AI-enabled capabilities. Help producers and sales partners understand the rationale for change, adopt new ways of working, and translate new processes into practical day-to-day execution.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, improve turnaround times, increase consistency, and scale best practices across markets. Take a pragmatic approach to solving problems, balancing ideal creative solutions with business needs, available resources, timelines, and budgets.
• Ensure production teams understand client objectives and deliver a professional, responsive experience throughout the production process. Step in as needed to help resolve complex client or production issues.
• Establish and maintain strong creative and technical standards across the team, providing guidance and feedback to ensure commercial content meets both client expectations and TEGNA standards.
• Ensure effective production planning across markets, including scheduling, budgeting, location needs, talent coordination, equipment, and other production resources.
• Oversee production budgets and the effective use of external vendors, freelancers, and contractors. Ensure resources are used responsibly and projects remain within financial parameters.
• Anticipate and resolve production, staffing, workflow, and client challenges. Exercise sound judgment and provide practical solutions that keep work moving while maintaining strong relationships with internal and external partners.
• Ensure production activities comply with applicable legal, safety, contractual, rights, and clearance requirements.
• Monitor team workload, production performance, timelines, quality, and other key measures. Provide visibility to leadership on performance, opportunities, and areas requiring attention.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Film Production, Media Studies, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial video production, production management, creative operations, or a related field.
• Extensive experience with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, specifically Premiere and After Effects.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams,