Production Director

Production Director

Department: Production

Reports To: Head of Production

Direct Reports: Assistant Production Director, Production Manager 

Location: Hybrid (3 days in-office in Culver City / 2 days remote)

Who We Want

The Production Director is a senior production leader responsible for overseeing large-scale experiential and influencer marketing programs for one of the agency’s largest client. This role provides strategic and operational oversight across multiple workstreams while ensuring flawless execution, financial accountability, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

While the majority of the role focuses on program-level oversight, this position is also hands-on when needed and may directly produce individual events or activations. The Production Director serves as a key partner to account, influencer/talent, creative, innovation, and finance teams, and acts as a trusted production lead for the client.

Key Responsibilities

Program Oversight & Leadership

• Provide end-to-end production oversight for a large, multi-faceted experiential and influencer marketing programs

• Oversee and establish production standards, workflows, timelines, and best practices across the assigned client program

• Oversee multiple concurrent projects, ensuring consistency, quality, and efficiency across all executions

• Participate in client meetings as needed, as a senior production lead, providing clarity, confidence, and solution

• Serve as senior escalation point for production-related risks, challenges, and decision-making
  
  

Team Management & Development

• Directly manage and mentor a Production Manager and Senior Traffic and Logistics Coordinator, both focused on influencer-related programs

• Review workloads, and ensure the team is set up for success across timelines and deliverables

• Provide coaching, feedback, and performance development to grow production talent and elevate output

• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented team culture
  
  

Event & Activation Production 

• Produce select experiential activations as needed, owning timelines, budgets, logistics, and execution

• Oversee vendor sourcing, fabrication, staffing, permits, insurance, and on-site operations when producing directly

• Ensure all events meet safety, compliance, and quality standards
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree 

• 10 years of experience in experiential production, event marketing, or integrated marketing environments

• Proven experience overseeing large, complex client programs with multiple workstreams

• Strong leadership experience managing and mentoring production teams

• Deep understanding of experiential logistics, fabrication, permitting, budgeting, and on-site execution

• Experience supporting influencer or social-first campaigns strongly preferred

• Exceptional organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills