Production Manager V - Culver City, CA - Hybrid - Contract
TalentBurst, Inc.
- Culver City, CA
- 9 days ago
Highlights
With a strong creative background and deep operational expertise, you understand the full campaign lifecycle, from early concepting to final delivery, and are adept at steering large-scale marketing initiatives with multiple stakeholders, evolving priorities, and ambitious timelines. Key Responsibilities: Lead end-to-end campaign operations, driving communication between Creative Advertising, Marketing, and cross-functional partners to build and maintain detailed timelines with clear asset requirements and delivery milestones.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Culver City, CA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | http://www.talentburst.com/ |
Description
Title: Production Manager V
Location: Culver City, CA – 90232
Duration: 5 Months
Type: Hybrid
Overview:
This role calls for a nimble, strategic thinker with a producer's mindset—comfortable leading in fast-paced, high-volume environments. You bring a strong background in entertainment marketing and a proven ability to manage creative production across diverse deliverables, including trailers, TV spots, social content, digital, paid media, and international formats.
You'll be the go-to partner ensuring clarity, alignment, and flawless execution across internal teams and external vendors—driving both creative excellence and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
Key Qualifications:
About You:
Location: Culver City, CA – 90232
Duration: 5 Months
Type: Hybrid
Overview:
- We're seeking an experienced Creative Production Manager to lead the execution and delivery of marketing campaign assets across the Client's TV programming slate.
- In this pivotal role, you'll partner closely with the Creative Director to drive campaign development—owning timelines, budgets, creative production, and asset tracking from kickoff through final delivery.
- Your work will empower our creative, marketing, and cross-functional partners to bring campaigns to life at the highest level.
- As the connector, you keep projects moving, budgets aligned, and deadlines met.
- A proactive problem-solver and operational strategist with deep expertise in the creative development of marketing campaigns, you understand how creative and marketing decisions influence timelines, resources, and the broader campaign strategy.
This role calls for a nimble, strategic thinker with a producer's mindset—comfortable leading in fast-paced, high-volume environments. You bring a strong background in entertainment marketing and a proven ability to manage creative production across diverse deliverables, including trailers, TV spots, social content, digital, paid media, and international formats.
You'll be the go-to partner ensuring clarity, alignment, and flawless execution across internal teams and external vendors—driving both creative excellence and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end campaign operations, driving communication between Creative Advertising, Marketing, and cross-functional partners to build and maintain detailed timelines with clear asset requirements and delivery milestones.
- Define and manage campaign budgets, forecast needs, build contingency plans, and align costs with both creative priorities and strategic marketing goals.
- Track production across all marketing touchpoints including trailers, TV spots, social, paid media, digital, international, and broadcast; ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to spec.
- Partner with the Creative and Finishing team to prioritize assets, manage post-production workflows, and ensure alignment with creative and marketing decisions.
- Proactively troubleshoot production and post-production issues, escalating where needed to keep campaigns moving forward.
- Manage vendor and agency relationships from onboarding through invoicing, ensuring seamless day-to-day project management and financial oversight.
- Provide visibility into campaign performance and spending, articulating variances, rationales, and allocation decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Act as a strategic partner to creative leads, supporting campaign strategy with operational excellence, scalable solutions, and production insights.
- Surface key decisions and blockers to senior leadership, ensuring clarity, alignment, and accountability across all teams.
Key Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in creative production, project management, or marketing operations ideally within entertainment, media, or creative agencies.
- Expertise in creative development of marketing campaigns across video, social, digital, paid, and international formats, with a strong understanding of how creative and marketing decisions impact workflow and timelines.
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end post-production process for creating trailers and short form pieces.
- Proven success leading high-profile campaigns, managing large budgets and tight timelines in fast-paced, high-volume environments.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders around a shared production and marketing vision.
- Demonstrated ability to manage asset lifecycles, from creative development through delivery, while driving clarity and accountability at scale.
- Exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to juggle multiple complex projects simultaneously.
- Outstanding communication skills, able to clearly present production updates, operational solutions, and budget insights to senior leadership.
- Advanced proficiency with workflow tools such as Airtable, Excel (or similar platforms), with the ability to design systems that increase visibility and efficiency.
About You:
- You're a seasoned leader in creative production—equal parts strategist, operator—who thrives at the intersection of creative vision and flawless execution.
- With a strong creative background and deep operational expertise, you understand the full campaign lifecycle, from early concepting to final delivery, and are adept at steering large-scale marketing initiatives with multiple stakeholders, evolving priorities, and ambitious timelines.
- You're not just a doer, you're a driver. You anticipate challenges before they surface, bring clarity to complexity, and create alignment across teams.
- Your communication is direct yet empathetic, your planning is rigorous, and your instincts are trusted by both creative and business leaders.
- You operate with emotional intelligence, fostering collaboration, building trust, and keeping teams motivated, even in high-stakes, high-volume environments.
- You're passionate about storytelling and marketing, with a sharp eye for the craft and mechanics that turn big ideas into tangible impact.
- You balance creative integrity with business realities, guiding teams with empathy, precision, and confidence.
- Above all, you bring a calm, solutions-oriented mindset and the ability to transform vision into action at scale.
About Company
For over 20 years, TalentBurst Inc. has been an award-winning provider of cutting-edge Workforce Management Solutions. With a strong commitment to staying ahead in the tech landscape, we pioneer innovative approaches to talent acquisition. Our expertise spans Life Sciences, and Healthcare Staffing, Banking, Financial, IT, and Engineering, as well as Global Employer of Record (EOR), Agent of Record (AOR), State, Local Government and Education (SLED), and IC validation/compliance services. Additionally, our division, TalentProcure, leads the industry with offerings such as High Hazard Payroll, Managed Services, and Vendor on Premise (VOP) solutions.
Due to our prioritization of excellent standards, we are Joint Commission Certified and are a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) in the USA and Canada. Supporting over 130 Fortune 500 companies globally, we excel in navigating the landscape of talent acquisition. In a world of constant change, we embrace developing people-centric solutions that address the unique demands of our clients. Stay connected by visiting our website and following us on social media!