Senior Producer

The Program partners with the world’s most competitive and innovative brands to develop highly strategic and creative solutions. We are the insights to action agency. At our core, we are problem seekers and thought partners. Our unique model challenges global, iconic brands to navigate moments of transformation and engage their ever-evolving future consumer.

Our Senior Producers possess an innate ability to navigate strategy, creative, technology, content, and client-brand partnerships. They own the entirety of the client service process, ensuring no detail goes unnoticed and untouched. As a company cornerstone, they are solely dedicated to the success of every project and our clients’ business. 

Our most important assets are people and the relationships we build. As a Senior Producers, you will manage these relationships, delivering quality work under tough constraints with a positive outlook. Senior Producers are responsible for spearheading complex projects for a wide variety of partners, categories, and mediums, while also growing the overall book of business within each client account you serve. You will help produce deliverable requirements and documentation, oversee timelines, budgets, and resources while motivating teams and managing partnerships with confidence. 

*Note: although this is not a content production / video production focused position, you will work across the content landscape in partnership, from time to time, with a content producer and content creatives.

How We Work 

At The Program, how we work matters just as much as what we produce. Our responsibilities are grounded in three core values that guide decision-making, collaboration, and growth across every role:

Curiosity — Ask better questions. Challenge assumptions. Learn fast.

Grit — We stay persistent when things get hard, balancing speed and quality.

Goosebumps — We aim to create work that moves people, not just work that checks the box.

These values shape how we approach our responsibilities, collaborate with teammates, and grow in our craft.

Responsibilities

• Manage client-specific projects throughout the lifecycle including project kickoff, monitoring project progress, ensuring on-time delivery and timely invoicing.
• Translates client requests and requirements into detailed briefs, and solution based plans to ensure client needs and expectations within timeline and budget are met. 
• Translate clients needs and requirements to the internal team, facilitate needs across strategy, creative, and production teams to hit defined benchmarks.
• Develop and maintain project plans, including documentation of project scope, objectives, deliverables, key milestones, timelines, schedules, internal resources, project dashboards, tracking of financials, etc
• Define potential problems and suggest alternatives based upon cost implications, time constraints, and customer quality standards.
• Keep clearly communicating streams between client, project and internal team.
• Lead internal and external communication
• Achieve account growth across each client account managed; look ahead for unexpected opportunities.
• Ability to motivate the team in a smooth, organized manner, promoting urgency without panic, confident direction over indecision.
• Support company leadership by providing oversight and insights on general team performance.
• Effective presentation and communication skills.
• Manage creative, technical, and production team members, in addition to outside vendors, to ensure all work achieves an outcome that exceeds client expectations.
• Ability to lift up to 40lbs of gear from time to time to lend a hand.
• Reliable vehicle and drivers license, willing to drive to be on set, meet with client partners, etc.

Experience

• 10 years experience as a Project Manager, Account Manager or Producer at an advertising agency or in-house at a brand.
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment handling several ongoing projects. 
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage multiple conflicting priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
• High proficiency in the Google Suite (Drive, Docs, etc.), Keynote, Figma, and spreadsheets, and project management tools such as Asana and Airtable.

Reports To

• The Senior Producer role reports directly to the Director, Project Management.

Details

• This is an in-office Portland, Oregon position with three days per week in office. A hybrid approach will make up the other two days per week, with additional days in office per week as needed or required by management. We’re committed to maintaining a professional level of flexibility for our team to do their best work.
• The salary band for this role is $80,000.00 - $105,000.00.
• We provide a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays, vacation/personal time, 401k matching, 401k loans, health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, paid paternity and maternity leave, and more.

To Apply

Click the link below to submit your resume, relevant links that demonstrate your skills and interests, and to tell us a little bit about yourself.

*No recruiters, please.