Series Producer
9 Story Media
Toronto, ON, Canada
Job type: Contract
Job Description
Looking for a senior producer to oversee a 45-minute animated special based on a recently published children’s book. This 2D pre-school special tells the story of a young Korean girl and her grandmother in a tale about inter generational bonds, finding courage in the face of fear, and connecting with our natural world.
In this role the Senior Producer will facilitate the show’s creative vision across all stages of production, by communicating updates between series leadership, departments, supervising workflow, managing the budget & schedule and quality control for final audio, designs, animation and deliveries.
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with creative team and senior leadership team to ensure creative goals are met by regularly communicating with all stakeholders, driving correspondence for materials distributed to the clients and senior leadership problem solving with the production team, facilitating network meetings including setting agendas and leading weekly production updates
- Work collaboratively with the director and head writer to produce outstanding creative. Direct daily and weekly production priorities for internal teams by managing production goals/kickoffs/deadlines and troubleshooting calendar concerns
- Supervise all deliverables
- Participate in all phases of pre-production, production and post-production.
- Participate in all major reviews including, but not limited to, scripts, designs, animatics, animation and post.
- Foster a productive and positive team environment by bringing a strategic perspective to challenging situations, participating in hiring staff and planning meetings/events, considering details that promote team spirit, developing junior staff members, directing the agenda and creative for bi-monthly team updates, and overseeing the organization of assets and tracking of materials
- Oversee budget and schedule
- Participate in all additional activities normally expected of a senior Producer such as creating budgets & bids, assisting DOP with templates & processes etc.
- Ability to work & manage teams across multiple time zones (LA & Toronto)
Skills & Requirements
Key Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in the role
- Strong working knowledge of the production pipelines (2D), and extensive knowledge of each phase of production (script through to post-production)
- Excellent storytelling instincts. Excellent numeracy skills and fiscal literacy, to manage budgets and ensure proactive solutions are made
- Organized and has excellent time management skills, able to efficiently balance multiple priorities
- Knowledge and experience with WGC, WGA, ACTRA IPA and Canadian funding regulations
- Knowledge and experience working with music, music videos & composers
- Able to problem solve in stressful situations
- Able to proactively work with and relationship build with internal teams, external teams, clients and broadcasters
- Able to handle sensitive, confidential information appropriately with sound judgment and discretion
- Well-developed communication skills with a focus on diplomacy, discretion and one on one relationships;
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Professional and solution oriented
- Experienced in dealing with different animation formats and working with tight deadlines.
- Experienced in dealing with oversea partners is a plus.
Why work with us?
Perks! Perks! Perks! Not only is 9 Story Media Group an amazing place full of artists, animators and creators from all corners of the industry, but we focus on helping staff grow and develop in their careers and make them long time team members. Along with a great work environment we offer first-rate health + dental benefits, summer hours, paid Health and Wellness Days, vacation periods that multiply with tenure, and more! We may love animation, but we love our employees even more!
Our Toronto office can be found in the cool and trendy Liberty Village with over 200 artists working on award winning animated children’s content. You will benefit from a competitive compensation package, interesting work and a fun/supportive work environment. Due to the pandemic, we currently accommodate remote work.
Applicants need to be legally eligible to work in Canada and willing to relocate to Toronto.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Should you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please let us know your requirements when contacted.
Additional Information
- Working remotely is an option
How to Apply
Apply through our company portal here:
www.9story.com/jobs
About the Company
Brown Bag Films are one of Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studios and is part of the 9 Story Media Group, with locations in Toronto, Dublin, Manchester, New York and Bali.
Making stand out/exceptional content for kids is at the heart of everything we do, and our bar is always set to “excellent” when it comes to the quality of our work. Our studios are highly collaborative spaces, where mentoring and on the job training is built into our daily practices. Our team members benefit from competitive compensation packages, working on award-winning 2D and 3D content, a thriving work culture and maybe too much cake!
We recently celebrated Brown Bag Films Dublin's 25th Birthday!
See how we've grown.....
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