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Executive Producer

Kansas City, MO

The Executive Producer is a senior leader within our Production department, responsible for guiding the execution, craft, and innovation across all project types. You bring deep expertise in all forms of media—TV, digital video, interactive, print, experiential, and web—and partner with the EVP, Head of Production, and other agency leads to elevate both the work and our team.

You will lead a team of producers with inspiration, accountability, and clear communication, setting the standard for excellence while fostering a culture of collaboration, curiosity, inclusion, and creativity.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Production Leadership

  • Lead your team in crafting and approving production approaches, schedules, and budgets that create the best conditions to produce our best work.
  • Establish yourself as the production expert for the brands you lead; forging a relationship of trust and respect with creatives, brand leaders, clients and production partners.
  • Guide projects through execution with a creative mindset and innovative, agile production solutions.
  • Ensure production quality and standards across all channels and formats.
  • Proactively address complex challenges, including vendor challenges, client dynamics, and creative hurdles.

Strategic & Creative Partnership

  • Build strong relationships with creative, brand and strategy teams.
  • Act as a trusted production advisor, contributing to creative development and execution plans.
  • Serve as a production representative and leader in client onboarding, new business efforts, and SOW planning.
  • Stay current and curious on production trends, technologies, partners, and opportunities for efficiency and creative excellence.

Team & Talent Development

  • Mentor and manage producers at all levels, from Associate to Senior.
  • Provide consistent feedback and career growth plans, including weekly 1:1s and annual reviews.
  • Lead training efforts and contribute to ongoing department-wide education initiatives.
  • Cultivate a team culture rooted in clarity, accountability, curiosity  and collaboration.

Cross-Agency Leadership

  • Collaborate across departments to ensure accurate scoping, staffing, and execution of work for your brands.
  • Partner with Business Affairs to ensure compliance with SAG-AFTRA regulations and production legalities.
  • Manage workload prioritization in collaboration with Resource Management, Brand Leads, and Creative.
  • Help shape Barkley's culture through leadership, accountability, curiosity and optimism.
  • Be seen as a production thought leader and problem solver agency-wide.

REQUIREMENTS

  • 10+ years of experience leading production teams in an agency environment.
  • Expertise in all aspects of production, including digital, film, print, and experiential.
  • Hands-on production skills with deep knowledge of production and post-production workflows.
  • Experience with international production and Film Tax incentives to leverage production savings for our clients.
  • Strong budgeting, scheduling, and project management experience.
  • In-depth understanding of SAG-AFTRA contract and industry agreements.
  • Familiarity with production management software and tools.
  • Proven ability to lead through complexity with clarity and positivity.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
  • Ability to travel as needed.

REPORTS TO
EVP, Head of Production

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervises producers from Associate to Senior levels.

 

BarkleyOKRP’s Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

  • We believe being radically diverse and inclusive is the key to becoming one of the world’s great creative idea companies. By embracing everything that makes our partners who they are and what makes them unique to the world around them, we create the conditions and capacity to help creative, original thinking thrive. 
  • BarkleyOKRP is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging as part of our corporate strategic goals, supported by a formal DEI+B program, Employee Resource Groups, Director of Diversity leadership and agency commitment to The Brand Lab, Creative Accelerator, Fellowship, MAIP, and BLAC. 

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