PRODUCTION MANAGER - (PRE-SALE)

Founded in 2012, Invisible North is a female-owned creative marketing agency headquartered in NYC with global reach. We are a team of culturally fluent strategists, creatives, designers and producers pushing the limits of possibility. Together, we champion creativity and build thoughtful experiences and content that solve business problems and bring brands to life.

We are seeking a Production Manager to support our team in all things pre-sales production-related. This role will be leading the production side of the RFP/bidding process, and will report directly to the Head of Production and Associate Director. This Production Manager’s lead charge will be working with the Creative and Accounts teams from RFP digestion all the way through Proposal and Budget Delivery. This role will be responsible for gauging feasibility (both production and budget-related) and thoroughly vetting all creative concepts in the pitch process for new business, drafting budgets based on industry pricing and vendor estimates, compiling production considerations to share with clients on all creative concepts, and drafting initial project timelines. This is a creative production role that will require knowledge of fabrication, implementation, staffing, etc. You should be more than comfortable interacting with clients, working with leadership, directing workstreams with other departments, and working with vendors to get quotes. NOTE: This role is a Pre-Sale production role, all work is in the Pre-Sale process, and no on-the-ground production or production support is required.

Additionally, this role will spearhead departmental research around new/innovative types of production, methodology, materiality, and implementation.

While our main office is located in DUMBO Brooklyn, we work as a distributed team with members reaching from Maine to LA, and everywhere in between.

This position is contract-to-hire after a 3-month review period.

Roles Responsibilities

• Oversee business development projects from a production lens, ensuring collaboration/creative solutions are put in place while maintaining feasibility and margin
• Establish streamlined processes around budgeting and how we think about framing budgets to create guidance for the creative team.
• Lead Research around new and innovative production methods, vendors, materiality, and any other element that impacts our work both pre and post sale.
• Report to Production Leadership on overall project status
• Work collaboratively with project teams, design department, Accounts Department, 3rd third-party vendors.
• Think strategically and proactively about client goals, event formats, and program structures from a production lens
• Utilize Invisible North’s project management & communication tools
• Manage & evaluate external vendors with agency and clients’ needs in mind
• Guide the creative team on production feasibility based on budget, timelines, markets, and client KPIs
• Work collaboratively with the creative team to find executional solutions and make executional recommendations that elevate creative and provide clients with budget value
• Draft budgets for new business pitches based on industry knowledge and trusted vendor estimates. Quickly gut check costs against creative and estimate budget ranges.
• Create production considerations and/or strategic production plans for new business pitches that showcase agency’s executional skill and foresight
• Support RFP-based idea development proactively with executional strategy and budget value in mind
• Transition production work from proposal to active phases in collaboration with the Head of Production

Skills Qualifications

• Hands-on creative and technical production experience, and extensive knowledge of the event production industry
• Ability to quickly gut-check estimates against creative
• Ability to come up with production solutions in collaboration with the creative team
• Be organized, creative, solutions-oriented, and have a great work ethic and attitude
• Have great relationships with production vendors and venues
• Excellence in digesting client briefs and understanding executional priorities
• Up-to-date and continuously researching the latest advances in creative technology and innovation as it relates to delivering the highest quality and most optimized production

Compensation

Salary Rate: $120,000 - $150,000

*This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, the final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. We will calculate the contract rate based on a weekly or monthly basis.

At IN, we acknowledge that in order to be a forward-thinking, culture-led agency, we must actively foster and uplift a multitude of perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of thinking within our team. We seek to work with those who are a culture add, not just a culture fit. We believe that the best ideas come from authenticity and that the unique passions, identities, and points of view of our team are what make us All IN.

IN is WBENC certified.

To apply, please submit your resume to jobs@invisiblenorth.com