
Director Of Post Production
Hearst Magazines
New York, NYThis was removed by the employer on 2/24/2023 5:11:00 AM PST
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Hearst Magazines' portfolio of more than 25 powerful brands in the U.S. - including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics - inspires, entertains and builds new and bold experiences for an engaged and growing audience across digital, video, social and print , reaching nearly 139 million readers and site visitors each month. With sophisticated content creation, cutting-edge technology and industry-leading data capabilities, we make media and products that move people across all platforms.
We are a global media company that publishes nearly 260 magazine editions and 200 websites around the world and, t ogether, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.
Hearst Magazines is seeking a Director of Post Production & Operations to join its editorial video team. The ideal candidate will have an extensive knowledge of the post-production process and strong experience with the editing and delivery process across various formats. The day-to-day tasks include but are not limited to creating and maintaining post workflows and tech specs, creating schedules, determining equipment needs, advising and creation of post budgets, hiring post staff/editors, researching emerging post technology, and managing a team.
Responsibilities:
• Lead strategic planning for the overall management of post-production in conjunction with several departments.
• Manage the day to day of on-staff post-production team and coordinate, hire and oversee freelancers and vendors across Hearst Magazines.
• Create and vet post-production budgets, timelines, and schedules to ensure all internal and external client deliverables stay on track, flagging timeline/resourcing concerns in a timely, cost-effective manner. This includes troubleshooting client technical & delivery questions.
• Oversee implementation of editing technologies for a remote editing environment, including troubleshooting and educating the staff and freelancers on best practices.
• Direct supervision and acting Post production supervisor for high profile original projects ranging from short-form to long-form content for OTT/Streaming, Broadcast, Cable Networks and other partners and supervise the final delivery of all associated assets (cue sheets, QT deliverables, project files, etc) observing partner's requirements are fully met.
• Oversee the maintenance of music licensing documentation contractually required by existing libraries, handling cue sheet generation, tracking and submission for 300 users across magazines and Hearst TV.
• Act as liaison and post operations authority with IT to manage editing and design technology infrastructure, current needs and on-going support.
• Leading and establishing onboarding of new staff hires including access to equipment and resources, establishing training practices and proper implementation.
• Oversee the common project management database that the company uses, which lives on Airtable, constantly assessing, improving and ensuring the needs of the stakeholders are met.
• Act as liaison with the Production Management Department, as well as responsible for rate negotiation for freelance post-production personnel while maintaining internal process and documentation.
• Lead the Signiant Media shuttle distro system, implementing and supervising maintenance and functionality of said FTP/distro system in conjunction with existing transfer methods such as Dropbox, Aspera, etc.
• Management of asset management workflows throughout the video department for all Hearst Magazines video teams. Server maintenance and operations, project/asset integrity and design of standard operating procedures for end-users, implementation of new and improved workflows involving the storage. servers, MAM and archive process both on-site and cloud-based environments within different locations/time zones.
• Departmental liaison between Post-production and Couns