Director of Post Production

About the Role

The Director, Post Production is responsible for providing operational leadership to ATTN:’s video editing team, ensuring the timely delivery of a high volume of quality videos for distribution on social, digital, and broadcast platforms. You will help manage both internal and third-party productions (from a post perspective) on both scripted and unscripted series. You’ll also provide post estimates, review budgets, and support/suggest best practices for post from the moment content is collected through delivery.

Working in collaboration with multiple department heads, the Director, Post Production ensures that each project reaches its creative potential, is efficiently executed on time and on budget, and is delivered in accordance with our technical specifications. This is a full-time, staff position with benefits, reporting to the Head of Studio.

What You’ll Do
• Directly lead and supervise a team of editors (both in-house and external), providing clear and concise creative feedback, technical knowledge and techniques, and professional development.
• Plan, schedule, and manage the assignments and daily workflow of the video editing team (including staff, contractors, and vendors) to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality video assets.
• Recruit, evaluate, and administer contract editors and vendors as needed for new and ongoing projects.
• Be able and willing to personally take on projects to edit as needed.
• Collaborate with production and creative teams on the development of new projects and proposals. Identify best in class video examples on a regular basis, providing benchmarks and inspiration for new work.
• Assist VP, Production in establishing and documenting workflows, creative standards, and processes as well as technical guidelines for the post-production team.
• Work with Sr Production Ops Manager to resource manage and ensure goals, objectives, and deliverables of projects are properly accounted for and clearly communicated.
• Work with producers to ensure all deliverables are collected by the scheduled due date and up to network/client standards.
• Provide budget estimates to producers.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams including creative directors, physical production, executive leadership, project management, legal, finance and other stakeholders to keep projects on track.
• Drive accountability by identifying issues that could adversely affect projects’ creative quality, delivery deadlines, or budgets. Generate tracking documents and output reports on an ongoing basis.
• Manage edit system workspaces, project setup, asset storage, network resources, and deliverables tracking. Respond to technical and logistical issues, working with IT to solve any problems related to workflow and delivery.
• Work with assistant editors and others to QC deliverables to ensure all technical, creative, aesthetic and legal requirements are met.
• Maintain documentation for media, software and hardware.

Qualifications
• Minimum 8 years of experience in post-production role such as post-production supervisor, post-production manager, post-production producer, or lead editor.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience managing direct reports – responsible for coaching, development, and performance management.
• Experience working on a variety of content formats.
• Thoroughly proficient with Adobe Premiere and related programs, including Adobe After Effects.
• Proven track record managing multiple fast-paced projects in a large organization.
• Excellent problem solving and organizational skills.
• Superior oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with budgeting, scheduling and booking post-production services.
• Experience delivering content to digital and network specification deliverables.
• Must be comfortable handling multiple projects and working in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications
• Builds strong, collaborative relationships with editors, producers, and cross-functional partners.
• Hands-on experience as both an assistant editor and an editor preferred.
• Should be familiar with all aspects of post-production workflow including ingest, cataloging/archiving, story editing, compositing, color, audio, and motion graphics.
• Experience with workflow and resource management programs such as JIRA, Air Table, Team Work, and others preferred.

Location

This role is based in Los Angeles. It’s a hybrid position, with at least three days a week in the office.

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