AV Creative Production Manager Hybrid in Culver City , CA 6 Months with a possible extension
$80-$85.00/hr on w2 , DOE Overview We’re seeking an experienced Creative Production Manager to lead the execution and delivery of marketing campaign assets across the TV+ programming slate. In this pivotal role, you’ll partner closely with the Creative Director to drive campaign development owning timelines, budgets, creative production, and asset tracking from kickoff through final delivery. Your work will empower our creative, marketing, and cross-functional partners to bring campaigns to life at the highest level.As the connector, you keep projects moving, budgets aligned, and deadlines met. A proactive problem-solver and operational strategist with deep expertise in the creative development of marketing campaigns, you understand how creative and marketing decisions influence timelines, resources, and the broader campaign strategy. This role calls for a nimble, strategic thinker with a producer’s mindset—comfortable leading in fast-paced, high-volume environments. You bring a strong background in entertainment marketing and a proven ability to manage creative production across diverse deliverables, including trailers, TV spots, social content, digital, paid media, and international formats. You’ll be the go-to partner ensuring clarity, alignment, and flawless execution across internal teams and external vendors—driving both creative excellence and operational efficiency. Key Responsibilities - Lead end-to-end campaign operations, driving communication between Creative Advertising, Marketing, and cross-functional partners to build and maintain detailed timelines with clear asset requirements and delivery milestones.
- Define and manage campaign budgets, forecast needs, build contingency plans, and align costs with both creative priorities and strategic marketing goals.
- Track production across all marketing touchpoints including trailers, TV spots, social, paid media, digital, international, and broadcast; ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to spec.
- Partner with the Creative and Finishing team to prioritize assets, manage post-production workflows, and ensure alignment with creative and marketing decisions.
- Proactively troubleshoot production and post-production issues, escalating where needed to keep campaigns moving forward.
- Manage vendor and agency relationships from onboarding through invoicing, ensuring seamless day-to-day project management and financial oversight.
- Provide visibility into campaign performance and spending, articulating variances, rationales, and allocation decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Act as a strategic partner to creative leads, supporting campaign strategy with operational excellence, scalable solutions, and production insights.
- Surface key decisions and blockers to senior leadership, ensuring clarity, alignment, and accountability across all teams.
Key Qualifications - 10+ years of experience in creative production, project management, or marketing operations ideally within entertainment, media, or creative agencies.
- Expertise in creative development of marketing campaigns across video, social, digital, paid, and international formats, with a strong understanding of how creative and marketing decisions impact workflow and timelines.
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end post-production process for creating trailers and short form pieces.
- Proven success leading high-profile campaigns, managing large budgets and tight timelines in fast-paced, high-volume environments.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders around a shared production and marketing vision.
- Demonstrated ability to manage asset lifecycles, from creative development through delivery, while driving clarity and accountability at scale.
- Exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to juggle multiple complex projects simultaneously.
- Outstanding communication skills, able to clearly present production updates, operational solutions, and budget insights to senior leadership.
- Advanced proficiency with workflow tools such as Airtable, Excel (or similar platforms), with the ability to design systems that increase visibility and efficiency.
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Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.
Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.
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