Senior Producer, Originals

Role Summary

Wave is seeking a Senior Producer to join the content team to lead a Celebrity, Lifestyle, and Pop Culture focused Wave Original. Overseeing the weekly development, pre-production, production execution, on-set management of talent and crew, post-production, and delivery of full episodes, shorts, and custom branded content for Wave Originals.

Responsibilities

• Development:
• Brainstorming, ideating, pitching, and developing concepts, talent opportunities, and show beats on a weekly basis for the show.
• Communicating, collaborating, and ensuring approvals on concepts and show rundowns with all stakeholders prior to greenlighting and shooting.
• Collaborating with the sales team to manage, track, and produce ad reads, drafting editorial and promotional copy for each show to ensure seamless integration within episodes.
• Pre-Production:
• Creation of the show rundown week over week.
• Creating and managing the production schedule.
• Supporting the booking, rescheduling, and coordination of talent and guests for weekly shows.
• Supporting and leading pre-production planning meetings with talent, crew, and stakeholders as needed.
• Production:
• Managing in-studio production, the set, crew, and vendors on shoot days.
• Executing creative while ensuring quality and consistency in tone, branding, messaging, and content goals for each episode and throughout the season.
• Virtually managing production on shoot days via Riverside when the shoot is fully remote.
• Manage recording logistics, including supporting the setup and technical settings of recording software.
• Directing and managing on-screen talent.
• Producing show extensions, including but not limited to episodes filmed on location for events, additional content, and branded content, with travel as needed.
• Ensuring all files are uploaded after each episode's taping.
• Post-Production:
• Leading post-taping production, social, and post-production debrief meetings.
• Providing story and edit notes on up to three rounds of cuts before locking the final episode.
• Ideating and selecting images and assets for cutdowns of supplemental content derived from hero episodes.
• Ensuring that show assets are sourced and procured, including submitting tickets for graphics and thumbnails.
• Overseeing the programming and publishing of cutdowns and full episodes for YouTube and podcast channels daily.
• Creating compelling HED/DEK titles for YouTube and audio platforms, and drafting timecodes for YouTube Shorts.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge and passion in Celebrity, Lifestyle, and Pop Culture verticals
• Minimum 5 years experience producing weekly podcasts or talk shows for notable network
• Experience producing and managing high-profile entertainment talent
• Detailed understanding of YouTube and audio podcast platforms best practices
• A highly creative storyteller. Able to write, produce, manage and execute projects from start to finish in a fast-paced and flexible environment.
• Proactive, with the ability to anticipate obstacles and problem solve under pressure.
• Strong experience organizing production workflows, assets and talent schedules.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong understanding of digital media trends and how audiences consume content across platforms with a focus on YouTube and social first content.
• Strong experience working cross functionally with external teams and stakeholders to communicate and negotiate project needs and move initiatives forward.
• Experienced in executing content for sales initiatives, custom branded content, on location shoots, and event activations.
• Highly skilled in managing multiple projects and priorities.
• Strong physical production knowledge is a plus.

Pay Transparency + Benefits

This role is a full-time freelance position with a base salary range of $4,231 - $4,808 / bi-weekly. Actual salary at the time of offer may vary based on multiple factors, including an individual's experience level and qualifications.

Physical Requirements + Work Environment

• Capacity to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery and hardware.
• The ability to communicate and exchange information clearly and accurately.
• Work is sedentary and involves sitting for the majority of work hours.
• Able to work full-time M-F and nights and weekends as needed.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and work is performed in a business office environment.
• The worker may be exposed to variable lighting conditions (brightness or darkness) and noise during production when in the office.

Wave’s 5 Core Company Values

• Simplify and Get It Done
• Master Your Craft
• Practice Hospitality
• Be Direct
• Fearlessly Pursue New Ideas

Physical Requirements + Work Environment

• Capacity to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery and hardware.
• The ability to communicate and exchange information clearly and accurately.
• Work is sedentary and involves sitting for the majority of work hours.
• Able to work full-time M-F and nights and weekends as needed.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and work is performed in a business office environment.
• The worker may be exposed to variable lighting conditions (brightness or darkness) and noise during production when in the office.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, victims of any “qualifying act of violence”, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace.

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