Job description
**This role is ONSITE at the client studio in Sterling Heights, Michigan**
Working on weekends and holidays is required for this role.
Part of Dentsu International, Dentsu Creative is a Global Creative Network that transforms brands and businesses through the power of Modern Creativity. Led by Global Chief Creative Officer Fred Levron, 9,000 experts across the globe work seamlessly together to deliver ideas that Create Culture, Shape Society and Invent the Future. Dentsu Creative was launched in June 2022 to address a client need for simplicity and will be Dentsu International's sole creative network by the end of 2022.
You will work closely with Producers, Product Specialists and Executive Producers on live virtual car walkthroughs for customers for our General Motors client. This role requires a mixture of technical knowledge as well as knowledge of digital workflows, with an onsite experiential component. In this role, you will work onsite at the GM studio, ensuring all technical and digital aspects of the virtual walkthrough flow smoothly - from setting up video equipment and setting up the network connection to ensuring there are no connection issues and that onscreen intro and end frames are correct.
The Associate Producer is an entry level position responsible for supporting all levels of production on integrated engagements, sometimes leading small engagements on his/her own. It is a learning position where priority is to have wide exposure into different productions, but also a role who is expected to independently manage small/low stakes productions. You are our first source of information, communications, and statuses/successes/failures, and act as the documenters and trouble shooters for all things going on in the studio, ensuring the correct info gets to the correct people in a timely manner.
Primary
- Your top three daily duties:
- Monitoring live tour sessions
- Prepping and maintaining equipment
- Key personnel for group tours (responsible for entire administration of each tour)
- Dentsu Producers elevate the creative; find versatile solutions to keep good ideas alive. They lead the evolution of creative concepts into even stronger executions.
- Ambitiously gather knowledge on production process - try to apply on projects and advocate for adherence to it to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality assets. Escalate any potential project risks to the lead producer
- Support lead producers in the creative development, development and trafficking of all the digital campaign elements for our high-volume, fast paced client.
- Maintain schedules set by lead producers, communicate progress and status on multiple projects, coordinate people and resources, identify challenges and recommend solutions.
- Asset Management and banner content creation within Google Studio and associated tools leading to generating client preview links and ensuring quality control before links are sent to internal and client stakeholders for review.
- Manage communication with partners and maintain knowledge and awareness of partner agency efforts in order to communicate risks and manage expectations around timelines.
- Assign tickets and track progress in our internal task management system (JIRA).
- Production organization; Coordinate meetings, notes, status reports, task lists, hot sheets, etc.
- Coordinate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of art directors, copywriters, account and PM
- Develop and track small/low stakes project timelines and resources with minimal oversight
- Manage multi asset deliveries using assets tracker to ensure on time and on spec delivery.
- Close out projects properly; file management and final budget/resource actualization.
- Conduct and document post project summary meetings
Secondary
- Partner with senior Production team members to define the scope of projects (goals, deliverables, schedule and budget)
- Support a senior Production team member on larger production initiatives.
- Aim to side kick on bigger mid/high productions
Skills:
- Passion for the craft of production and creativity
- Experience working in a very fast paced and ever changing production environment
- Positive spirit, team oriented and always a "helping hand" attitude
- Strong time management and organizational skills.
- Detail-oriented with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to be flexible and go with the flow as productions schedules shift frequently
- Willingness to work weekends and holidays as needed
- Interpersonal/Emotional intelligence
- Curious with a drive to experiment and to take on new challenges
- Proactive with strong problem-solving skills; responsive and flexible to evolving responsibilities and changing environments
- A self-starter that can work well within highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams.
- Interest in digital, experiential and/or content production process.
Additional Information
Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.
Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact recruiting@dentsuaegis.com if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.
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