VP, Production

Job Description

VP, PRODUCTION, VICE NEWS

VICE News x You

The award-winning VICE News team develops and produces news, current affairs, and documentary content for VICE platforms and 3rd-party partners. The team focuses on in-depth and immersive work, always searching for unique and creative ways to tell stories. This is a collaborative team that works together to make everyone's stuff better; we believe in listening to all ideas. The team is a diverse group of people who enjoy our work and take pride in creating the most unique and distinctive content in the industry.

The Job

VICE NEWS is the home of high-quality, thought-provoking, award-winning factual television. Our acclaimed series appear on multiple platforms including Showtime, VICE TV and on our robust digital channels. You will oversee a team and work closely with Executive Producers and Creatives at VICE News in managing our slate of original content including VICE News Tonight, VICE on Showtime and our long-form premium news documentary series, specials and hours. Responsibilities include budget oversight and implementation of best practices from pre-production through delivery. The position will work closely with our internal creative and production finance teams along with our content producers to ensure efficient delivery. A successful candidate will be proactive and relentless, entrepreneurial, flexible, thorough, and able to juggle multiple and diverse responsibilities in the US and in our global offices.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
• Work with internal business functions and external production teams on establishing key production schedules and workflows and optimizing budgets
• Work with series producers to prepare and vet show budgets and schedules, providing feedback internally on viability and risks and help ensure that productions meet deadlines and stay within budget
• Maintain neutral oversight and provide support as issues arise throughout production and establish an open dialogue with external and internal production partners
• Oversee and communicate with internal and external teams for production scheduling
• Implement key performance indicators and strategic objectives for News and facilitate measurement of those objectives, reporting results to the executive team
• Manage budgets of multiple productions
• Work with the EVP, CFO, and the GM of VICE World News to develop a content delivery strategy
• Partner with Business Affairs, Creative Executives, Legal, Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Operations, Risk Management and HR.
• Work within applicable state and federal labor laws and union rules.
• Work with EPs of content verticals to ensure successful delivery
• Implement best practices to improve the efficiency and quality of VICE News' Production operations
• Ability to meet last minute high-priority requests without affecting ongoing Productions
• Working knowledge of production cycles and related unions and guilds
• Manage ad hoc requests regarding development and series production matters, internal/external audit requests, payment details as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS
• Demonstrated creative experience of 10+ years having worked with medium/high budget studio and/or major production company, and/or in network news environment
• Ability to stay calm under pressure and lead both internal teams and external partners
• Ability to handle a fast-paced environment supervising multiple projects in various points of production (from development through delivery)
• Team-player who drives innovation and thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial setting
• Strong relationship-building ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Has knowledge of and actively consumes VICE content
• Experience overseeing both online and traditional video content
• Detailed knowledge of trends in documentary-style video content; ability to use this knowledge to influence business decisions
• Forge partnerships with producers, line producers, production accountants
• Experience successfully managing large teams of production staff
• Must be willing to work from New York, NY

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4w62v-3-144-248-24-42 in your application.