Description
We're seeking a Director of Production to lead production across the studio while driving business growth. As a key player, you'll oversee integrated project planning, resource allocation, and delivery, ensuring exceptional work while expanding our client portfolio and revenue.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the production team across integrated projects, including digital, experiential, content, social, film, and animation work.
- Own and deliver against individual revenue targets, contributing to the agency's overall growth.
- Build, maintain, and grow strong relationships with existing and prospective clients.
- Identify new business opportunities through networking, client relationships, and industry connections.
- Play a senior role in pitching and winning new business, from identifying opportunities to presenting, scoping, and closing deals.
- Grow existing accounts by identifying opportunities to expand relationships, services, and revenue.
- Act as a trusted senior production and business partner to clients, building long-term relationships.
- Oversee the full production lifecycle, including estimating, resourcing, timelines, budgets, execution, and delivery.
- Establish and maintain scalable production workflows, processes, and standards across disciplines.
- Partner with creative, strategy, technology, and account teams to translate ambitious ideas into executable production plans.
- Work closely with finance and leadership on forecasting, budget management, pipeline visibility, and revenue planning.
- Anticipate and resolve production challenges before they impact delivery or client relationships.
- Lead, mentor, and develop producers and production team members, building a high-performing and scalable production function.
- Help evolve Thinkingbox's production offering and identify new capabilities, partnerships, and opportunities that strengthen our position in the market.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of senior production experience within an agency, studio, or similar fast-paced creative environment.
- Deep experience across integrated production, including digital, experiential, content, social, film, and/or animation.
- A strong track record of generating revenue, developing new business, and growing existing client relationships.
- Experience working toward and achieving individual or team revenue targets.
- Confidence leading and contributing to pitches, developing scopes and production approaches, and helping turn opportunities into won business.
- An established network of client, brand, agency, and industry relationships that can support Thinkingbox's continued growth.
- Proven ability to build trusted senior-level client relationships and identify opportunities within existing accounts.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including estimating, forecasting, budget management, and understanding project profitability.
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, and scaling multidisciplinary production teams.
- Deep knowledge of production pipelines and the ability to oversee complex, integrated work from initial opportunity through final delivery.
- Clear communication, sound judgment, and a collaborative leadership style.
- A strategic mindset with the ability to balance creative ambition, commercial opportunity, client needs, and operational realities.
Benefits:
- Monday - Thursday in office (Fridays are remote optional)
- Flexible time off, including paid vacation and sick days
- Consistent culture and team-building events
- Employee recognition and incentive programs
- Seasonal celebrations and gatherings throughout the year
- Office lunches
- Branded company swag
- Access to industry events, learning opportunities, and non-profit outreaches
- Dog-friendly offices
- Unlimited coffee, drinks, and snacks
- Flex work and travel options
- Comprehensive extended health benefits
- 401k matching