Head of Production

The Head of Production will lead and oversee the production and post departments, ensuring all projects are delivered on time, resourced adequately, within budget, and at the highest quality. This leadership role requires a strategic thinker, skilled manager, and a decisive production expert who can balance creative aspirations with operational efficiency.

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Production Leadership

• Lead all aspects of production across projects, ensuring a seamless execution from pre-production to delivery.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of production schedules and budgets, ensuring alignment with client and company goals.
• Champion innovation by integrating new production technologies, tools, and workflows.

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Team Management

• Manage and mentor a team of producers, production managers, and coordinators, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Ensure professional growth and skill development within the production team.
• Collaborate with creative, account, and technical teams to align production efforts with broader company goals.
• Work with Skycar’s management and HR consultant to help with onboarding, offboarding, and any other routine HR needs. 
• Oversee project resourcing, including editorial and animation.
• Manage our freelance roster and help identify new talent. 

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Financial Oversight 

• Develop and manage production budgets, ensuring financial efficiency without compromising creative integrity.
• Negotiate vendor contracts and rates, ensuring cost-effective partnerships while maintaining quality.
• Oversee invoicing and payroll process. 
• Monitor financial performance of production operations, providing regular reporting to executive leadership.
• Run the finance meeting to keep the production staff and the Skycar bookkeeper updated on project financials. 

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New Business Development

Partner with the Executive Producer and business development teams to scope production needs and present solutions for new business opportunities.

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• Minimum 10 years of production experience (Producer, PM)
• Previous experience in overseeing teams
• A creative, solutions-oriented approach to projects and relationships
• Experience as a post-producer managing multiple editors, designers and animators at once
• Experience with live action producing
• Experience managing client and vendor relationships
• Knowledge of creative & technical approaches to filmmaking
• Ability to be flexible and highly adaptive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Assertive and proactive self-starter with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate clearly, delegate projects, and manage multiple projects at once
• Calm and kind under pressure
• Passion for Excel (or more precisely, Google sheets)
• Must be Bay Area based and have access to a car
• Ability to work in our Point Richmond office at least three days a week

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• Working knowledge of Adobe Suite
• Experience producing animation or VFX
• Strong connections with artists, crew, and talent in the Bay Area
• Bachelor's degree in film production, marketing, communications or a related field
• Dog-friendly - dogs often hang around here!

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We’re based in the Bay Area, but we partner with clients everywhere, from brand-new startups to Fortune 100 biggies. We prioritize conceptual originality like a creative agency, but we operate with a production company’s understanding of execution and craft. Our team is imaginative, optimistic, and laser-focused on the joy of the journey. Not unlike a car that can fly.

The future’s still got some wonder left in it, and we’re a team of tinkerers united in the determination that getting there will be a blast.

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 Please see our current work @ skycar.tv.

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