Responsibilities

• Translate client objectives and KQED audience insights into platform-appropriate concepts, treatments, scripts, scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, and production budgets across video, social, audio, digital, and experiential formats.
• Turn around initial creative concepts within 48 hours of receiving an RFP, using a standard template that the Sponsorship team can present to prospective clients.
• Participate in pre-sale conversations as needed to present creative concepts, explain production approaches, and answer client questions.
• Assess the creative, operational, and financial feasibility of opportunities before they are sold, identifying assumptions, constraints, rights requirements, production capacity, and costs to reflect in the client agreement.
• Serve as the primary production contact for clients after a project is sold, leading kickoffs, setting expectations, presenting creative work, managing feedback and approvals, and addressing changes in scope, schedule, or budget.
• Own multiple projects simultaneously from kickoff through closeout, balancing client commitments, editorial standards, production capacity, budgets, and delivery deadlines.
• Maintain a clear view of active and prospective projects, schedules, budgets, deliverables, dependencies, and resource needs, and communicate risks to leadership and Sponsorship partners.
• Coordinate with Sponsorship, Legal, Business Affairs, Editorial, Marketing, Audience Development, Finance, Production Operations, and other internal stakeholders to secure required input and approvals.
• Develop and manage pre-production plans, schedules, scopes of work, production budgets, staffing plans, and client expectations for sold projects.
• Hire and manage freelance crews, production companies, talent, and other vendors based on the creative and operational needs of each project.

Requirements

• 5+ years producing branded, sponsored, or commercial content for digital platforms, ideally within a media company, branded content studio, or production company
• Demonstrated ability to develop concepts quickly and communicate them clearly in decks and client conversations
• Full-lifecycle production experience: budgeting, scheduling, crewing, on-set leadership, and post supervision
• Experience managing client relationships during production, including setting expectations and navigating feedback
• Working knowledge of post workflows and media management best practices
• An existing network of freelancers and production vendors, or the ability to build one quickly
• Experience creating scopes of work, production estimates, and change orders, with a demonstrated ability to manage scope, budget, and client expectations
• Strong project-management skills and experience managing multiple productions with overlapping deadlines
• Strong editorial judgment and the ability to recognize and escalate brand-safety, disclosure, rights, or sponsor-influence concerns
• Experience working with legal agreements, talent and location releases, licensing, insurance requirements, and production rights clearances

Preferred

• Experience at a public media organization or mission-driven brand
• Familiarity with FTC disclosure standards for sponsored and branded content
• Short-form social video production experience (Reels, TikTok, YouTube)
• Experience working alongside unionized production environments