
Production Coordinator
In this role, you are embedded within the Brand’s Content business unit and work cross-functionally within various teams and departments at Lucid. This Production Coordinator has a general understanding of all aspects of content production, post-production, creative development, and negotiation. The Coordinator is responsible for helping to deliver brand content output to the highest standard supporting the brand’s core mission and DNA, from ideation to execution on time and on budget.
As a Production Coordinator on the Brand team, you’re the kind of person who sees a problem, develops a solution and has excellent organizational and communication skills. You exhibit a can-do attitude and approach your work with vigor and determination. You demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and are EXCELLENT at multitasking.
You thrive on and love collaboration. You excel at managing many different personalities and work styles to bring cohesion and productive workflow to the project. You aren’t afraid to share your ideas and meet problems head-on. You have command of streamlining projects, identifying possible obstacles, and are always looking for solutions. Someone who gets the big picture—you are proactive, always ahead of the game, while having a passion for the smallest details while inspiring and leading others.
Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Content, you are responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of the production process. Working closely with the creative and editorial department, coordinating the production and final delivery of all assets. On occasion you will collaborate with cross functional partners and lead internal facing projects.
This role is located in Newark, CA
The Role:
- Coordinate video and motion content from concept to final deliverables, whether using in-house resources or outside production and agency partners.
- Help streamline production workflows and schedules, ensuring that all projects are completed on time.
- Day-to-day coordination of multiple projects which may include social media /online and/or internal through the entire project: planning, creative, production, delivery, and wrap.
- Facilitate and support defining project scope, including a budget, timeline, resources, and external costs if required.
- Support project leads with managing the production calendar and tracking all production tasks and deadlines, organizing the publishing of calendars to stakeholders on a regular basis after review with team leads.
- Communicate regularly with the post-production team, producers, directors, creative director, vendors, and other departments to ensure that all post-production needs are met.
- Work alongside cross-functional teams and departments through a project’s lifecycle (from project brief through the delivery of the final product).
- Ensures all deliverables are meeting stakeholder expectations, including adherence to established timelines, budgets, legal review, and ensure relevant guidelines are followed.
- Facilitates project-related team meetings, (ie: kickoffs and internal reviews)
- Manage workflow and process between the internal team and external vendors
- Set expectations and manage schedules effectively yet in a flexible manner that shows solution-focused thinking, not just problem identification.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus time and technical constraints.
- Help onboard new vendors, track Purchase Order requests and track project lifecycles thru billing actuals.
- Ability to travel for live action production, support event activations or follow testing and validation for engineering and manufacturing partners
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience working on brand-centered projects.
- Experience working with external agencies, creators, and talents
- Solid experience in budgeting, crewing, and production logistics and protocols. Versed in all aspects of multimedia content production
- Skilled in managing a high volume of creative content
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- An understanding of the mix/balance of business, creative and technical work.
- Ability to execute methodically as well as remaining flexible and utilizing your creative problem-solving skills.
- Passion for mission-driven brands
- Portfolio of proven brand-defining short and long-form content
Base Pay Range (Annual)
$103,100 - $141,790 USD
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