Overview
Position Title:Executive Producer
Company:AO
Location:Bristol, UK
Job Description:
We’ll soon be launching our new Creative Hub in London, in a stunning space with state of the art production facilities, to complement our established production teams in Manchester & Bolton. It’s going to be a mix of creatives, producers and makers with the mission of raising the bar creatively across our content output. We’re looking for an Executive Producer to play a key role in this exciting new venture. You’ll be responsible for managing and shaping the studio team and its output on a daily basis, helping us set things up, and also having a strong influence over how it develops.
Responsibilities:
- Daily management of studio team and its output.
- Helping us to successfully launch our new creative hub.
- Overall responsibility for all production ensuring each project has the right team and talent in place to raise the creative bar whilst ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
- Establishing and developing best practice process across the studio.
- Responsibility for running and setting up shoots both within the studio, as well as larger external productions.
- Managing productions from creative development through to final delivery.
- Influencing the creative direction of projects by suggesting talent and production techniques. Offering advice and guidance throughout the creative and production process.
- Inspiring, influencing, protecting and delivering creative work we can all be proud of.
- Working closely with, and collaborating on projects with our existing production and creative teams in Bolton and Manchester
- Building strong relationships across the studio team, but also with colleagues and customers across the organisation.
- Mentoring and team development, as well as helping to nurture a great culture.
- Identifying new hires and talent gaps and ensuring the team has the right knowledge, experience, and skills to efficiently manage an evolving and growing work profile.
- Helping plan the future direction of the studio and the services we offer.
- Cultivating and developing a “Black Book” of creative talent.
Requirements:
- Comfortable around all types of production, but particularly well versed in all aspects of video and film production, including line production.
- 10 years+ experience in fast paced production and creative environments.
- Comfortable around complex large budget productions and projects.
- An expert in social production and its various formats.
- Have a real passion for film production and its craft, but also comfortable and experienced around all production disciplines.
- Knowledgeable around post production processes, techniques, software and workflows.
- Great with numbers and schedules. You know how to make any timeline and budget work, and love to negotiate.
- A proven team leader but you also like to get stuck in and have an entrepreneurial spirit. This is a start-up environment.
- You’re passionate about creativity but also process driven.
- You’ve got a great “Black Book” of best in class talent.
- Take short deadlines and last minute changes of direction in your stride.
- Great at prioritising and juggling multiple fast paced projects, and always keeping calm.
About AO
At AO, we want to make sure our customers are happy. When they have a smile on their face, we know we’ve done a good job. It’s at the heart of everything we do, and it’s why our logo is always smiling.