Manager, Agency & Production

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary day-to-day lead for creative and strategic agency partners.
• Manage scopes of work, budgets, timelines, and performance metrics to ensure accountability and strong partnerships.
• Provide clear direction, feedback, and alignment throughout campaign development.
• Identify opportunities to optimize agency engagement, improve efficiency, and maximize value.
• Lead end-to-end production for integrated marketing campaigns across multiple channels, including video, digital, and brand storytelling initiatives.
• Ensure seamless execution of campaign deliverables developed by both internal and external creative teams.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate briefs into production plans and execution strategies.
• Maintain accountability for project timelines, budgets, quality standards, and campaign objectives.
• Oversee campaign content to ensure consistency in brand expression and creative excellence across all touchpoints.
• Coordinate efforts between internal Studio teams and external partners to support flawless asset integration.
• Proactively identify and resolve gaps, risks, and alignment issues throughout the content development process.
• Manage talent rights, licensing agreements, and usage requirements associated with campaign and production work.
• Partner with agencies, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure proper scoping, documentation, and compliance related to talent agreements, font licensing, and content usage rights.
• Maintain expertise in business affairs considerations, including licensing renewals, usage restrictions, music rights, talent agreements, and contractual obligations that impact production timelines and budgets.
• Manage project workflows, timelines, and deliverables across multiple teams and partners.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation of decisions, action items, and project outcomes.
• Partner closely with Brand, IMC, Insights, and other key stakeholders to align priorities and deliverables.
• Build trusted relationships that enable effective collaboration and high-quality execution.
• Serve as a liaison across creative, production, and marketing teams to drive clarity and alignment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in agency management, production, marketing operations, or related creative environments.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Additional coursework, certifications, or direct experience in marketing, communications, production, or related disciplines is highly valued.
• Experience working in agency, production, marketing operations, or creative environments required.
• A strong understanding of campaign development and creative production processes.
• Experience managing video and photo production projects.
• Knowledge of integrated campaign execution across multiple marketing channels.
• Proven success managing agency partners, vendors, and external creative teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-channel projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance creative excellence with operational efficiency and budget accountability.
• A working knowledge of production-related legal, compliance, and business affairs considerations, including:
• Talent rights and agreements
• Licensing and usage terms
• Music, font, and content licensing
• Contractual requirements and renewals
• Experience evaluating the impact of usage terms, timelines, and contractual obligations on budgets and asset delivery.
• Preferred qualifications include:
• Experience working in both agency and in-house environments.
• Background in a consumer packaged goods (CPG) organization or other high-volume content production environment.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $89,506 - $132,468 per year.