Development Producer

About the role

We are seeking a dynamic Development Producer with a background across the digital, SVOD, vertical, traditional, and streaming spaces. This is a highly creative, high responsibilities role for someone experienced in all aspects of IP development (conceptualization, pitching, outlining, scripting, production supervision) who has expertise across digital platforms, traditional media, and vertical storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, develop, and produce original scripted concepts and expand existing IP into repeatable series, focusing on those with strong audience hooks, emotional clarity, and repeatable franchise value.
• Translate ideas across formats, including short-form/social, digital episodic, and linear/traditional development.
• Facilitate “writer’s rooms”, manage creatives, and show capability in growing diverse and specialized teams that can work effectively and efficiently.
• Track varied platform trends, audience behavior, viewer feedback, and story formats that are actually working, showing capability in instilling learnings immediately into future greenlighting.
• Deeply analyze and understand the structural retention and packaging requirements of each content platform to ensure our creative is natively built.
• Partner with production to ensure concepts are executable at cost-effective budgets and that IP vision stays consistent from concept through execution.
• Help build a pipeline of commercially viable content without losing brand voice. Be highly responsive in an extremely fast-moving development environment where priorities shift quickly.

Why this role matters

Dhar Mann Studios continues to change the game of scripted storytelling. We are expanding our programming scope to also include SVOD and traditional media partnerships, extending our content footprint to reach new audiences around the world. For example, we have recently launched Samsung TV+’s first ever original scripted series, are currently producing 40 vertical dramas for FOX, and have production slated to begin on multiple scripted projects for traditional media platforms in late 2026. We’re growing. And we want you to be a part of it.

How you’ll spend your time

• Ideate, develop, and produce original scripted concepts and expand existing IP into repeatable series, focusing on those with strong audience hooks, emotional clarity, and repeatable franchise value.
• Translate ideas across formats, including short-form/social, digital episodic, and linear/traditional development.
• Facilitate “writer’s rooms”, manage creatives, and show capability in growing diverse and specialized teams that can work effectively and efficiently.
• Track varied platform trends, audience behavior, viewer feedback, and story formats that are actually working, showing capability in instilling learnings immediately into future greenlighting.
• Deeply analyze and understand the structural retention and packaging requirements of each content platform to ensure our creative is natively built.
• Partner with production to ensure concepts are executable at cost-effective budgets and that IP vision stays consistent from concept through execution.
• Help build a pipeline of commercially viable content without losing brand voice. Be highly responsive in an extremely fast-moving development environment where priorities shift quickly.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3+ years working in scripted development within the film and television industry, preferably within a Creative Executive, Lead Writer, or Producer capacity.
• Experience ideating and writing longform scripted series for SVOD, FAST, digital, creator-led, youth, family, or female-skewing audiences. Preference towards candidates with experience overseeing a series’ entire lifecycle.
• (Portfolio link or samples required with application submission)
• Deep experience adapting ideas to different platforms and audience demos, including grounded expertise and strong instincts for entertainment that can transition between digital and traditional/linear settings.
• Deep fluency in digital platforms (including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, vertical microdrama applications, SVOD/AVOD/FAST, audience retention mechanics, thumbnail/title/hook mentality, and creator-led programming).
• Experience working with small, fast teams and delivering under compressed timelines.
• Comfort wearing multiple hats: writer, creative producer, development partner, story editor.
• Strong organizational follow-through.
• Budget consciousness and practical production judgment.
• Genuine alignment with DMS culture: mission-driven, high-output, collaborative, and audience-focused.