ROLE: Executive Producer
REPORTS INTO: Production Director or Sr. Production Director
LOCATION: Hybrid in Los Angeles, CA or NYC, NY
What Is an Executive Producer: An Executive Producer leads Salt's largest and most complex projects. Where a Senior Producer leads a project, an Executive Producer leads the production - owning financial performance, serving as the senior client partner, and guiding cross-functional teams through the highest-stakes work the agency takes on. You are agile, decisive, and comfortable with ambiguity. You know when to zoom out and when to get close.
Roles & Responsibilities- Lead strategic planning for large-scale, multi-faceted productions from concept through final reconciliation
- Owns the financial outcome of the production, including profitability, margin strategy, and reconciliation accountability.
- Simultaneously lead a large production and provide oversight across other projects, acting as a senior production resource leadership relies on across the portfolio, not just on one show.
- Is comfortable working within tight timelines, managing challenging work back schedules and leading complex decision making.
- Serve as the senior client partner on major productions - present for executive-level conversations, navigating political sensitivity and high-pressure environments with calm and clarity
- Working with directors and creative teams to provide strategic input and ensure the project vision aligns with client and brand expectations.
- Clearly define and maintain Roles & Responsibilities for the project team and partner agencies.
- Oversees risk management on projects, creating risk mitigation strategies for complex challenges.
- Manages large-scale productions, and prioritizes multiple projects at the various stages of a project life cycle.
- Work with project finance and operations teams to monitor and successfully reconcile budgets to ensure internal financial goals are met.
- Participate in Salt company wide meetings including ongoing process training and improvement, company culture, and monthly updates.
- Bring collaborating agencies together to deliver premium work.
- Lead effective production audits and production schedule reviews.
- Maintain regular meetings with your individual team members (i.e. workstream leads and direct reports) and promote individual growth and development.
- Bring a positive, can-do attitude to our salt team!
- Foster unity and belonging within the team. Leverage project talent collaboratively to achieve outstanding results.
- As a full time employee, you will be responsible for managing full time (non project) staff at Salt. This would include ongoing company management, employee development, employee growth, and company culture.
- Travel both domestically and internationally will be required.
- This job will require on-site and in person work.
Requirements- 10+ Years of experience.
- Hands on experience managing budgets ranging from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000
- Confident proposing next steps and leading a team from a strategic thought through execution.
- Well-rounded experience in various facets of event production [Logistics, Fabrication, Graphics, A/V, Furniture & Decor, Food & Beverage, etc].
- Understanding of both B2B and B2C business and is able to forecast potential fires on a project in advance.
- Embody integrity and character, transparency and accountability, leading by example.
- Understanding of the creative process for large scale events.
- Comfortable having difficult conversations and adept at conflict resolution with teammates, vendors and clients.
- Able to kindly hold all parties accountable to deliver a great finished product
- Proactive problem solver
- Approach projects as an opportunity to create premium work and develop client relationships and strong teams - it's not just about the end result but also the process and the people
- Nice to have;
- A wiz at google docs and Slack
- Passionate about the experiential marketing world keeping up with the day to day news about successful projects going on around the world.
You Are: - A Strategic Powerhouse for High-Value Projects: With 10+ years of experience and a history of managing $5M-$15M budgets, you are the ultimate anchor for large-scale, intricate productions. You thrive under the pressure of tight timelines and complex workback schedules, possessing the agility to translate high-level goals into flawless execution across both B2B and B2C landscapes.
- A Master of Client & Conflict Diplomacy: You are a trusted partner to both the Account team and the client. You navigate high-level relationships with ease, balancing brand expectations with creative reality. Whether you are delivering a sensitive strategic update or resolving cross-functional conflicts, you do so with integrity, character, and a focus on long-term partnership.
- An Inspiring Mentor and Culture Leader: You believe that premium work is only possible with a unified team. Beyond the project lifecycle, you are dedicated to the growth of Salt's people-managing full-time staff, fostering a sense of belonging, and holding all parties accountable with a "can-do" attitude that prioritizes the people and the process as much as the final result.
