Production Director

Description

Job Summary: Manage and lead the production of printed and digital materials, ensuring technical excellence, budget adherence, schedule compliance, and cross-team integration. Key Highlights: 1. Leadership in the production of printed and digital materials 2. Management of budgets, schedules, and SLAs 3. Team development and strategic partnerships **Production Director** --------------------------- ### **Objective** Ensure excellence across all agency production—from printed materials to digital toolkits, from point-of-sale (POS) materials to campaign films—guaranteeing technical specifications, budgets, schedules, and SLAs. Lead integration between internal departments and external partners, structuring and managing a team with complementary expertise to meet diverse demands, including: * Production planning * Institutional, commercial, and promotional printed materials * Packaging and labels * Editorial materials * Point-of-sale (POS) materials * Digital materials * RTV production * Rights and permissions management * Post-production oversight ### **Specific Responsibilities** **Process and ritual governance** Define, standardize, and ensure adherence to methods, SLAs, and checkpoints, guaranteeing smooth workflow across disciplines (visual, verbal, experience, and strategy) from the strategic phase through execution. **Budget and billing management** Structure a multidisciplinary team responsible for end-to-end management of agency productions and accurately report financial results. **Production supervision and delivery assurance** Ensure adherence to schedules, budgets, and SLAs; anticipate risks; resolve dependencies; adjust capacity and prioritize requests with leadership, ensuring predictability and consistency. **Quality and craft** Establish technical and strategic review criteria; approve materials, mockups, and prototypes; elevate finishing quality and excellence of deliverables, ensuring an exceptional standard. **Vendor management** Map, qualify, negotiate with, and manage partners (printers, illustrators, photographers, retouchers, editors, A/V production houses, etc.), ensuring contracts, SLAs, compliance, and quality. **On/off and BTL execution** Supervise logistics and deployment of POS materials, printed assets, activations, and events—ensuring alignment with Branding guidelines and the customer journey across physical and digital environments. **Tools and data** Implement AI solutions for repetitive tasks and quality control; lead the evolution and adoption of the Toolkit, defining backlog, roadmap, and metrics. **Leadership and team development** Lead final art and RTV; structure, develop, and oversee the production team (producers, traffic, studio, and art buyers) with clearly defined roles, routines, career paths, and a culture of continuous improvement. **Interfaces and collaboration** Collaborate closely with Creative, Strategy, Client Leads, and Operations to ensure alignment with Branding guidelines and each client’s business requirements. **Strategy-to-execution conversion and client satisfaction** Ensure high project-to-implementation conversion rates, minimizing rework, meeting deadlines and budgets, and maintaining high client satisfaction. **Compliance and sustainability** Uphold copyright, licensing, LGPD, and sustainability criteria across vendors, materials, and processes. **Management metrics** Monitor and report KPIs such as on-time/on-budget rate, rework index, conversion rate, Toolkit and AI adoption rates, cost per deliverable, and vendor performance.