WHO WE ARE
Vox Media's Revenue organization handles advertising and marketing partnerships with brands and agencies, as well as lines of business in consumer revenue and commerce across the organization.
Vox Media is the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
Vox Creative is looking for a Line Producer to help oversee operations for the branded content team, working closely with our Video and Editorial creative partners within the larger Vox Creative organization. This person is the guardian of finances including scoping assignments, budget management and general financial knowledge.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Provide operational support to Vox Creative Productions, with a focus on the video, social and editorial business, and:
- Liaise with strategy, production, and creative excellence teams on development and post-sale production of creative content including supplied-asset articles, custom articles, maps, recipe features, and guides.
- Gather relevant background information from pre-sale colleagues as projects reach 75% (for instance: pitch decks, concepts, talent requirements, and special requests).
- Working collaboratively with our sales team to scope campaigns in pre-sale.
- Building budgets that the Production and Post Production teams must adhere to when hiring crew for a project.
- Vetting potential production partners and vetting bids to manage production.
- Enforce consistency and efficiencies in production budgets.
- Monitor scope of work and alert the relevant team if work is falling outside of SOW or deadlines are in jeopardy causing overages.
- Check in with Production and Post Production Partners on actualized spending to maintain budgets across creative campaigns.
- Use best judgment to review when and if a project has an acceptable overage.
- request budget codes when necessary and update actuals from payroll reports
- Work with Creative Operations to review invoices and/or timecards for crew payments and any costs incurred during production;
- Work closely with Production team on execution, vendors, and all legal issues with content
- Support Vox Creative, including, without limitation, joining internal and external project kickoffs, acting as the main contact on client calls, revising timelines, and flagging actionable items
- Follow communications on Slack, Asana, email, and meetings, and update timelines and production needs to reflect
- Support Sales, Production and Creative Team as needed.
- Uphold an inclusive environment and maintain proactive outreach to potential freelancers from diverse backgrounds
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of Production Experience
- 3+ years of high level Production creation
- Ability to work with different stakeholders to accomplish campaign goals but also to limit spending.
- Higher level understanding of mathematics, direct and indirect spending, budgets and holding the line with production execution
- Knowledge of Production workflow
- Knowledge of contracts and contract negotiations
- Highly organized with an ability to multitask
WHO YOU ARE
If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We've hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.
WHERE YOU'LL WORK
This job is remote. We're dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all of our employees, and when we reopen, will require everyone who works from one of our offices to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees with approved religious or medical exemptions may be subject to additional safety requirements, such as submitting to regular COVID-19 testing and/or wearing a face covering in our offices.
WHY VOX MEDIA?
WHAT WE OFFER
This is a temporary, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.
OUR DEI+ COMMITMENT
Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability, transparency and communication. Learn more about our values here, and our approach to corporate citizenship here.
Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team (recruitment@voxmedia.com).
WHAT COMES NEXT
Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.Pay Range
