Production Assistant

Job Description

Responsibilities
Production Assistant

Role Purpose
The Production Assistant role is a critical junior maker on the team. It is an administrative and creative position that supports the Creative & Production teams with distributing media assets as well as collaborating with the team to suggest and internally produce content for marketing campaigns. It requires great attention to detail, creative drive and a proactive attitude. The ideal candidate will work well under pressure, apply critical thinking to their tasks, and will possess the ability to prioritize requests from multiple departments as needs arise.

Responsibilities
• Supporting creative directors, producers and project managers' requests via heavy email communication and Slack.
• Fielding requests from multiple departments and individuals (Press, Digital, Social, Executive leadership, external producers/vendors)
• Maintain working relationships with assigned show post departments
• Author, transcode and deliver footage in various formats in support of press, social, and other marketing departments
• Frequent document creation, maintenance and distribution

ASSET MANAGEMENT
• Works with show production, post department, development team, shoots team and the Post/MAM team to procure, organize and maintain all assets related to production of the shows or projects the team is working on
• Develop, update, & Maintain marketing post memo's for assigned shows
• Locate, organize, and traffic all assets (including Dailies/VFX shots, episodes, shoot footage, sponsor logos, scripts, transcriptions, graphics toolkits, etc) to production facilities (both internally and externally) via digital delivery and/or carrier service
• Facilitate requests with internal Media Asset Management (MAM) and post-production teams
• Maintain various departmental software/databases and manage user access for each
• Storage Area Network (SAN) Maintenance & Organization of all final and clean promotional assets

CREATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
• Write, produces, and edit promos ,longform video content, and other promotional materials as needed
• Assist producers and vendors with clips pulls, shot requests, footage screening, etc.
• Revise existing assets and supervise retag requests
• Modify and render graphics

Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 1 year experience in production or postproduction for television
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY
• Willingness to work overtime, and on weekends with short notice

Desired Characteristics
• Strong Video Post-Production knowledge and editing skills (ideally Adobe Creative Suite)
• Sense of urgency and ability to prioritize projects/tasks through asking questions
• Strong work ethic - does not easily leave something uncompleted
• Strong organizational skills
• General aptitude and genuine interest for software and technology
• Mac Proficiency/Adobe Suite (Premiere, After Effects, etc)
• Ability to work with tight time constraints, multiple simultaneous projects and long hours
• Aptitude for working well under pressure
• Microsoft Word/Excel/Outlook/Power Point
• Digital Video Formats and Transcoding
• Database software familiarity

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rezxw8-18-118-184-237-42 in your application.