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LAYIQ - Director of Production at Local Projects, LLC, New York, NY

Client Leadership & Scoping
● Serve as the client's production lead on key accounts, partnering with the Account Director, who owns the overall client relationship and account growth
● Own end-to-end project scoping, overseeing producers on deliverables, approach documentation, pricing, and partner selection from a media and software perspective
● Support new business pitches led by the Account Director and New Business, ensuring potential work is scoped, priced, and feasible to produce from a media and software perspective
Planning, Delivery and Support
● Collaborate with project teams on production approaches, applying media, software, and AV expertise to lead the team and route tasks to the right expert
● Partner with Operations to define in-studio prototyping requirements and priorities
● Create and execute project plans, estimates, and budget burns reflecting creative, production, and scope changes
● Develop and manage production-level budgets, including overhead and staffing strategies; the COO owns fee estimates and studio-wide resourcing targets
● Direct production workflows, weekly resource assignments, and capacity planning across internal teams, freelancers, and vendors, providing utilization data to the COO
● Communicate clearly and proactively with project teams and vendors on agendas, deadlines, and priorities
● Partner with Creative Technology on delivering post-open support and maintenance offerings
Production Leadership
● Source, vet, negotiate with, and manage external producers, designers, vendors, and production partners through delivery, and nurture a vendor and freelancer network to fill personnel gaps, contributing to the shared database
● Write scopes of work, staff scopes, and vendor contracts; manage subcontractors and track change orders
Supervisory Responsibilities/ Discipline Leadership
● Establish and iterate on production processes, protocols, tools, and templates within Production, applying studio-wide standards set by the COO, and ensure the team applies them consistently
● Recruit, interview, hire, and train internal production staff in collaboration with HR, making the final hiring decision within studio-wide policy
● Manage team growth through reviews, regular 1:1s, and professional development planning, and recommend compensation adjustments
● Manage department admin for production staffing, resourcing, PTO approvals, and disciplinary or termination actions in accordance with company policy

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