Executive Producer, Branded Content

This is a Full Time Job

Rolling Stone: Executive Producer, Branded Content

Rolling Stone seeks an Executive Producer, Branded Content. The Executive Producer plays a key role on a team where creativity, marketing, and commerce come together. As a brand representative for Rolling Stone, this role will help to drive revenue and audience awareness across multiple platforms through creative and innovative branded content and lead a growing creative team on the Marketing side.

Responsibilities:
- Bring creativity, collaboration, and curiosity to a cross-functional marketing team
- Research, report, write and edit content across platforms, including digital and print media
- Join pre-sale brainstorms and collaborate with sales and strategy on proposal development including ideation, talent, and budgets
- Manage program pre-production and development including creative timelines, video treatments, talent recommendations, and article ideation
- Manage creative program execution including pre-production, on-set production, talent interviews, talent management, article writing, post-production supervision, and event creative support
- Work closely with talent acquisition team to work with talent/talent teams for campaign logistics, creative participation, music licensing
- Ensure event content capture is managed end-to-end
- Liaise with the editorial team and advise on program creativity, timelines, and elements
- Identify and hire freelance program support as needed and process all contracts and payments including writers, producers, editors, directors, photographers, stylists, hair and make-up, etc.
- Oversee all digital production including copywriting and digital publishing of articles and videos in WordPress
- Work with Project Management to provide timelines and estimated budgets for pre-sale pitches
- Coordinate communication across cross-functional teams - Marketing, Vendors, Clients, Legal
- Work with Project Management to provide and track various project documentation - i.e. SOWs, releases
- Supervise AP/Producer

Requirements:
- The candidate should be extremely detail-oriented and be able to multitask/handle many projects at once in a team-oriented environment
- 5 years of writing and producing experience at a major publication, brand, or network
- Exceptional written, verbal, and organizational skills
- Proficient in content publishing including WordPress
- Strong freelance network of writers, producers, editors, directors, photographers, production companies, DP's, editors
- Familiarity and comfort communicating with agency and client stakeholders
- Love of music and pop culture
- Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing
- Must be able to work independently and under pressure
- Exceptional proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint/Keynote, WordPress
- Strong knowledge of video codecs, file formats, and their workflows in relation to post-production
- Familiarity managing budgets
- Familiarity with Air Table is a plus
- Video editing experience with Adobe Premiere and/or Avid is a plus
- Ability to travel 25% of the time