Associate Director Of Post Production, West Coast

Job Description

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Hearst Magazines is seeking an Associate Director of Post Production & Operations, West Coast. Tasks include but are not limited to creating and maintaining post workflows and tech specs, creating schedules, determining equipment needs, advising and creating post budgets, hiring post staff/editors, and researching emerging post technology. This person will be responsible for operations and managerial duties, including:
• Acting as liaison and post operations authority with IT and east cost senior director of post to manage editing and design technology infrastructure, current needs and on-going support
• Leading and establishing onboarding of new staff hires, including access to equipment and resources and establishing training practices and proper implementation
• Overseeing the common project management database that the company uses, which lives on Airtable, and constantly assessing, improving and ensuring the needs of the stakeholders are met
• Acting as liaison with the Production Management Department, as well as being responsible for rate negotiation for freelance post-production personnel while maintaining internal process and documentation
• Managing asset management workflows throughout the video department for west coast video teams. Server maintenance and operations, project/asset integrity and design of standard operating procedures for end-users, and implementation of new and improved workflows
• Authoring new production and post-production technical specification guidelines, improvement of existing series style guides and establishing end-user workflows for cross-platform brand consistency, non-linear editing guidelines and delivery specifications

Responsibilities:
• Lead strategic planning for the overall management of post-production in conjunction with other departments for West Coast team.
• Manage the day to day of on-staff post-production team with post supervisor and coordinate, hire and oversee freelancers and vendors across Hearst Magazines West.
• Create and vet post-production budgets, timelines, and schedules to ensure all internal and external client deliverables stay on track, flagging timeline/resourcing concerns in a timely, cost-effective manner.
• Troubleshoot client technical & delivery questions.
• Oversee implementation of editing technologies for a remote editing environment, including troubleshooting and educating the staff and freelancers on best practices.
• Communicate proactively with the production and editorial video department to understand and implement solutions for current and future needs.
• Direct supervision and acting post production supervision for high profile original projects.
• Oversee the maintenance of music licensing documentation contractually required by existing libraries, handling cue sheet generation, tracking and submission for 150+ million users across Hearst Magazines and Hearst TV.
• Serve as an educator on video best practices and post production needs to members of editorial and other departments across Hearst Communications, Inc.

Qualifications:
• 7+ Years in an agency, production company or studio environment
• Background in training and managing teams of freelance editors and post production professionals
• Experience working with a wide variety of formats (commercials, short/long form, documentary, etc.)
• Demonstrable history of transforming and maintaining post systems and workflows

The base salary for this role is between $85,000 and $102,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future

As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Magazines requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Hearst Magazines will consider requests for reasonable accommodations on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-renvq5-3-140-188-16-42 in your application.