Commercial Production Manager

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Production Manager to lead a distributed team of commercial producers and oversee the delivery of high-quality commercial video content across multiple TEGNA markets.

The Commercial Production Manager will be a key partner to local sales leadership and sales teams, helping create effective workflows between sales and production, balance client needs with production resources, and continuously improve how commercial creative is developed and delivered.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of approximately 8–10 commercial producers across multiple TEGNA markets.
• Production Leadership: Provide oversight and direction for commercial production from concept through final delivery.
• Sales Partnership: Build strong, collaborative relationships with local sales leaders and sales teams.
• Sales & Production Workflow: Develop, implement, and continuously improve systems and processes that create seamless collaboration between sales and production.
• Resource & Workload Management: Manage production capacity and priorities across multiple markets.
• Change Management: Lead teams through evolving production processes, organizational changes, and new technologies and tools.
• Operational Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, improve turnaround times, increase consistency, and scale best practices across markets.
• Client Experience: Ensure production teams understand client objectives and deliver a professional, responsive experience throughout the production process.
• Quality Control: Establish and maintain strong creative and technical standards across the team.
• Production Planning: Ensure effective production planning across markets.
• Budget & Vendor Management: Oversee production budgets and the effective use of external vendors, freelancers, and contractors.
• Problem Solving & Escalation: Anticipate and resolve production, staffing, workflow, and client challenges.
• Compliance: Ensure production activities comply with applicable legal, safety, contractual, rights, and clearance requirements.
• Performance & Reporting: Monitor team workload, production performance, timelines, quality, and other key measures.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Film Production, Media Studies, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial video production, production management, creative operations, or a related field.
• Extensive experience with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, specifically Premiere and After Effects.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams.
• Strong understanding of video production workflows.
• Proven ability to build strong partnerships with sales teams, business leaders, creative teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience leading teams through process, technology, or organizational change.
• Strong organizational and operational skills.
• A pragmatic, solutions-oriented mindset.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing production budgets and external vendors or contractors.
• Comfort working with evolving production technologies and tools.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) program with company match.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• Virtual doctor’s appointments and therapy sessions.

Location: Any TEGNA station within the Northwest region, preferably Portland, OR or Seattle, WA

Pay Range: $90,000-$120,000 USD