Job Description

Who we are:

As a fiercely independent and passionate agency, Thunder Child ignites creativity, influences culture and creates conversation. Working across content strategy and development, mixed media, digital marketing, Influencer engagement and social media, our vision is to create truly meaningful connections between our partners products and their customers. 

We represent a range of companies including Warner Bros., HBOMax, AT&T, Netflix & Lego, these amazing partners allow us the opportunity to work on everything from representing a few well known wizards across social media, bringing the caped crusaders universe to life in Augmented Reality, to placing you in a virtual world of undead zombies.

Our team of strategists, writers, storytellers, and creatives dream up ideas and experiences that connect our partners with their audiences across all mediums. Thunder Childs expertise expands across building Augmented Reality apps, casting experiential teams to immerse you in an experience, to, working with influencers around the world to tell great stories across social media. We've built worlds, created canon, produced documentaries, and even been known to host a few virtual fashion shows along the way!

Who we’re looking for:

We’re looking for a creative producer with experience at a fast-growing creative agency in a client- facing role to join our small core team in a full-time role. Reporting to the Creative Director, you'll be taking the lead on multiple client projects, leading the engagement from kickoff call through final delivery. 

The right candidate needs to be a big fan of pop-culture past and present with a love for movies, TV, Games, VR & AR. They must be able to see and think differently about how to create a range of connected conversations across social media, and always, looking at new ways to engage with audiences. 

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and distribute schedules for all projects.
• Manage vendors/outside contractors, create SOWs, budget proposals and schedules
• Plan for, schedule and prioritize projects to ensure work is completed efficiently, on schedule and within budget.
• Manage milestones and deliverables with the project stakeholders to ensure assets are delivered when needed and in the correct formats.
• Make sure all project requirements are clear to the team.
• Communicate early and often, continually checking the pulse of what task needs to be accomplished, following up on action items, making sure the team is executing projects and completing actions.
• Make necessary adjustments if any part of the process isn’t working and/or implement new processes when needed.
• Anticipate and mitigate project risks or identity potential threats. Adjust and communicate schedule updates as necessary to maintain final due dates.
• Lead weekly project status meetings and communicate milestones to stakeholders.
• Act as liaison between the creative services team for marketing materials - Requesting assets, providing assets, and securing approvals.
• Help ensure strategic and visual brand consistency of our clients.
• Work closely with the creative team to lead, innovate, and evolve branding and marketing materials.
• Help set and refine projects’ strategic objectives and oversee all phases of creative development.
• Schedule, lead, and document all meetings needed for briefing, review, and approval of projects.
• Work with project stakeholders and the creative services team to define project goals, budget, and deadlines, and communicate clearly to the stakeholder group.
• Manage outside contractors and agencies, set up relationships and manage the flow of assets and communication.
• Review all project deliverables to ensure they are free of typos, inconsistencies, errors and ensure they meet internal and external requirements including specifications, file formats and brand/legal guidelines.
• Understand team workloads and identify when projects require additional resources in order to meet deadlines
• Request and manage project budgets, provide reporting as necessary.
• Manage purchasing, creating purchase requisitions and requesting any necessary contracts.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in project management/producing.
• A minimum of 5-8 years’ experience in a creative environment – preferably advertising/design agency, game developer or entertainment studio.
• A strong aptitude for understanding creative processes and the drive for executing superior work. 
• Experience working on a range of projects and mediums - from large-scale digital activations to web and app builds, interactive experiences, VR content to strategic marketing campaigns and brand design
• Expert knowledge of the creative development process.
• Expert knowledge in digital content development, including advertising, static and motion.
• Some knowledge of print production.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with individuals and departments.
• Excellent multi-tasker who is able to work on a variety of projects with varying circumstances.
• Excellent critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Impeccable organizational and time-management abilities.
• Exceptional creative problem-solving skills.
• Self-starting with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Exceptional attention to detail as well as the ability to understand the big picture.
• Able to maximize resources.
• Service-oriented attitude.
• A love of video games.
• Ability to act with discretion when handling confidential matters.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook as well as Adobe Acrobat.
• Strong proficiency in Google tools: Slides, Sheets, Docs
• Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop