Executive Producer, Branded Content

Job Description

Rolling Stone: Executive Producer, Branded Content
Rolling Stone seeks an Executive Producer, Branded Content. The Executive Producer plays a key role on a team where creativity, marketing, and commerce come together. As a brand representative for Rolling Stone, this role will help to drive revenue and audience awareness across multiple platforms through creative and innovative branded content and lead a growing creative team on the Marketing side.

Responsibilities:
• Bring creativity, collaboration, and curiosity to a cross-functional marketing team
• Research, report, write and edit content across platforms, including digital and print media
• Join pre-sale brainstorms and collaborate with sales and strategy on proposal development including ideation, talent, and budgets
• Manage program pre-production and development including creative timelines, video treatments, talent recommendations, and article ideation
• Manage creative program execution including pre-production, on-set production, talent interviews, talent management, article writing, post-production supervision, and event creative support
• Work closely with talent acquisition team to work with talent/talent teams for campaign logistics, creative participation, music licensing
• Ensure event content capture is managed end-to-end
• Liaise with the editorial team and advise on program creativity, timelines, and elements
• Identify and hire freelance program support as needed and process all contracts and payments including writers, producers, editors, directors, photographers, stylists, hair and make-up, etc.
• Oversee all digital production including copywriting and digital publishing of articles and videos in WordPress
• Work with Project Management to provide timelines and estimated budgets for pre-sale pitches
• Coordinate communication across cross-functional teams – Marketing, Vendors, Clients, Legal
• Work with Project Management to provide and track various project documentation – i.e. SOWs, releases
• Supervise AP/Producer
Requirements:
• The candidate should be extremely detail-oriented and be able to multitask/handle many projects at once in a team-oriented environment
• 5 years of writing and producing experience at a major publication, brand, or network
• Exceptional written, verbal, and organizational skills
• Proficient in content publishing including WordPress
• Strong freelance network of writers, producers, editors, directors, photographers, production companies, DP's, editors
• Familiarity and comfort communicating with agency and client stakeholders
• Love of music and pop culture
• Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing
• Must be able to work independently and under pressure
• Exceptional proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint/Keynote, WordPress
• Strong knowledge of video codecs, file formats, and their workflows in relation to post-production
• Familiarity managing budgets
• Familiarity with Air Table is a plus
• Video editing experience with Adobe Premiere and/or Avid is a plus
• Ability to travel 25% of the time
A good faith estimate of the salary range is $90k - $110k. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. The total compensation package for this position will also include other elements, a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits including 401(k) eligibility and paid time off benefits.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-4kx551-18-97-14-89-42 in your application.