Senior A/V Finishing Producer

This is a Full Time Job

Sr. A / V Producer, Finishing, Amazon

Job Description
As part of the core International theatrical creative team, this individual will produce the best-in-class A/V finishing and QC of A/V marketing materials including theatrical, broadcast and digital content for Amazon MGM Studios International Theatrical Division, to elevate the final product to the highest standards. They will additionally route and track the required clearances relevant to asset type and placement. This content includes materials such as teasers, trailers, and TV/digital spots and audio assets. The Sr. A/V Finishing Producer will report to the Theatrical Creative Services Lead, within the Amazon MGM Studios Marketing division.

Key job responsibilities
• Vendor Management: Own the vendor management process to supervise the finishing of A/V materials throughout the mix, online, approvals, versioning and QC process, and execute internal asset delivery to domestic and international partners.
• Post Production Pipeline Strategy: Establish the finishing pipeline in conjunction with the show post team and VFX team for marketing materials. Connect and manage stakeholder communications.
• Post Production Timeline Management: Provide timeline inputs to cross functional leads. Regularly flag milestones to the internal team and proactively avoid scheduling conflicts. Build and maintain production asset tracker. All deadlines must be transparent to both Domestic and International territories.
• Session Booking: Book mix and DI sessions, and coordinate creative lead and filmmaker/EP attendance when required. Facilitate creative approvals of masters.
• Content Security: Uphold content security. Facilitate vendor security onboarding and tooling training. Manage creation and upkeep of vendor asset management file sharing system for titles and provide permissions to internal and external teams.
• Asset Tracking: Track all assets through the finishing process ensuring prompt receipt and distribution of crucial elements including prep and graphics.
• QC: QC branding, exports, social resizes and iterations of all specs.
• Clearance Routing: Responsible for tracking legal clearances of A/V materials prior to locked cut through final delivered asset.
• Budget Management: Own the A/V finishing portion of the campaign budget in conjunction with Campaign managers: manage billing negotiations, review and open PO's, track invoices and vendor relationships.
Localization Partner: Act as a bridge to the localization team to set expectations around timeline and provide elements for accelerated localization.
• Asset Curation: Oversee the receipt and distribution of AOM or AOS AV assets from internal production to external vendors working on marketing campaigns.

Qualifications
• Experience prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at any given time while maintaining commitment to deadlines, or experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company
• 6 years experience in feature, series, or marketing post production
• Experience with digital and broadcast tv finishing process, including online, mix and QC.
• Technical knowledge of specs, formats and placements as well as audio/picture/graphics/editorial/conform/visual effects pipelines.
• Experience managing post production timelines and budgets
• Ability to assess scope of work and manage complex workflows
• Fluent in AV formats with an understanding of the fundamentals of asset management, in theater deliverables (DCP), servicing, and trafficking
• Experience managing and delivering large volume of video assets to external partners
• Intermediate knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite (specializing in Premiere Pro, Photoshop and After Effects), Avid and Project Management Software.
• Prior experience with image production, transfer protocols, digital asset management and publishing content for web.
• Experience with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.