Producer

We're building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it.

Darkroom is a digital growth agency building legendary e-commerce companies and digital experiences. We are a team of industry-leading marketers and best-in-class creatives building LA’s fastest-growing marketing agency.

We are looking for a Producer to join our fast-growing agency. Reporting directly to the Executive Producer, client-facing and managing multiple Production Coordinators and projects. Maximizes profitability for each project while achieving the highest quality creative product. Shepherd for individual projects on a day-to-day basis, handling all logistical and creative needs as well as supporting EP in any way needed. Responsible for projects from conception through post-production. Hiring crews, vendors, sourcing locations or location managers, casting or hiring casting directors, and getting approvals each step of the way from Key Stakeholders and then clients.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage entire projects from conception to post-production by staying in regular communication with the client and managing all aspects of budgeting from estimating and conception to wrapping of the project.
• Dig deep into a creative brief and clear up any uncertainties with the client and team before kicking off the project
• Understand the client’s goals and offer consistent guidance toward the best possible product that aligns with those goals
• Leverage knowledge of digital media landscapes to maximize content engagement and exposure
• Prepare the client and crew for the day of the production by crafting clear Call Sheets and outlines to ensure key details are accounted for
• Communicate and collaborate with a team of savvy creative producers and video editors to produce engaging content that elevates our client’s brands and helps them achieve their goals
• Develop great client relationships by building trust and respect through transparency and communication
• Champion our project management tools (ClickUp Notion) by plugging in production timelines and making sure everything is up-to-date with the latest information, status reports, and links
• Ensure statuses are clear, key deadlines are manageable, and the entire team is aware of all projects in our queue
• Keep a pulse on the creative team workload and shift around a few individual plates to effectively accommodate an urgent quick-turn creative request
• Nudge along the client and creative team with proactively upbeat reminders regarding key project deadlines to the creative team
• Lead scheduled and supported brainstorms, creative reviews, retrospectives, and other ceremonies to keep the team aligned and focused
• Work with clients and internal teams to define and achieve project goals
• Facilitate project communication so client and team are informed and ready and able to execute
• Establish agendas and run effective, informative project meetings
• Oversee the efficient and quality production of deliverables
• Develop timelines, manage deliverables, and ensure milestones are met
• Run and organize all project budgeting
• Plan and secure appropriate resources throughout the project lifecycle
• Raise changes to scope, budget, and timing and communicate the impact of those changes
• Ensure that our work meets Darkroom’s high-quality standards
• Maintain healthy client relationships and manage day-to-day client communications

What You’ll Need to be Successful:

• A home base of LA! Due to Production location, this role is based in Los Angeles, California.
• 3-5 years of experience as a producer or at a producer level capacity.
• The right candidate will be highly motivated, resourceful, and organized with high attention to detail.
• You must be able to multi-task and quickly pick up new concepts while maintaining an upbeat and positive relationship with existing clients
• You also deeply understand the creative process and can speak Copywriter and Designer, and think a dozen steps ahead.
• You really know what it takes to get a project completed, and use that magic to keep us all on track.
• Passion for Production: You get a thrill from making beautiful and effective content on time and on budget.
• Obsession with Organization: You are the Marie Kondo of creative project management and are continually looking for ways to streamline, organize, and optimize our projects
• Expert Collaborator: You're able to clearly define a brief and build out the execution across the creative team, generating support and buy-in from both key stakeholders and team members by keeping the communication flowing and ultimately hitting the deadlines and delivering the creative projects you scoped. People trust you and you're able to build a reputation as an expert as well as an accountable, transparent, and trustworthy teammate.
• Grace under Pressure: You know how to juggle multiple tasks at a time with ease and don't sweat things when it's crunch time or projects turn on a dime.
• You also inspire the same energy with your teammates and are able to help ease bandwidth and bottlenecks by looping in solutions such as freelance friends.

About Darkroom & Employee Benefits:

Darkroom is a vertically integrated digital agency pioneering the next generation of consumer-facing brands. Our team has been responsible for generating hundreds of millions of dollars in market value for some of the most innovative brands in the world. A category leader in results-driven growth marketing, Darkroom’s success is attributed to our unique partnership model, purposefully built to launch brands to market and accelerate growth across direct-to-consumer. Our model is predicated on four major disciplines — Brand & Identity, Digital Products, Creative Production, and Growth Marketing – threaded by one cohesive, interdisciplinary team.

Taking the startup mindset to the agency space, the collective expertise of our team of entrepreneurs and senior digital marketers are deeply aware of the newest trends in e-commerce, development, and digital marketing. Our learned experience has allowed us to take clients (and internal ventures) from $0 to millions in revenue in just a few months. We work with game-changing brands: Verb Energy, Everytable, VYBES, Joybird, & Maaji – to name a few.

We're building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it. We only seek out the best—from our clients to our people. Our team is our most sacred asset, and we offer highly competitive salaries and the following perks:

• Darkweek, Unlimited Vacation Policy, and Holidays: Rebooting is one of the most important parts of growth. At Darkroom, you have access to an unlimited vacation policy, our annual “Darkweek” full office closure, and 10 holidays throughout the year to keep you recharged and sharp.
• Location, location, (or no) location: Office and work locations where the most talented people want to live. Employee hubs include Los Angeles, New York, Ukraine, and Albania (Commuter benefits in LA only). Remote work for certain jobs applicable.
• Wellness: Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision benefits with, so you can stay as healthy as can be.
• Finances, growth, and retirement: After one year with Darkroom, we deliver a robust 401k program with company match, and a profit-sharing opportunity so we can help you save as the company grows.
• Creativity at our core: in-house Los Angeles-based studio with some of the best creatives in the business.
• Growth-oriented with endless opportunities: contribute to one of the fastest-growing advertising agencies in the United States.
• Darkroom Labs: internal idea factory with no boundaries. Come up with ideas for new tools, technology, or products
• Work on the best with the best: we are highly selective with who we work with– both clients and team members. Our business development process is characterized by finding “right-fit,” category-leading brands. We look for the people to match.