Content Producer

EC have an opportunity for a Content Producer to join our team.  In this role, reporting into our Head of Content, you’ll support the day-to-day running of projects in our content department, with a majority focus on video and moving image.

At EC, we blend creative event agency thinking and production company doing to deliver extraordinary events and everlasting experiences. Enabling our clients to deliver lasting experiences that matter, for the people that matter to them.

Our partnerships with our clients underpin everything, because when they dream big, so can we… but it’s our amazing team that turn those dreams, into reality.

Our client promise is to make the extraordinary, everlasting. We want to make your time with us extraordinary and everlasting too!

Who are you?

• You have 5 years of experience in a role related to producing video content.
• You have a solid understanding of the postproduction process, from initial briefing and scoping to final delivery and playout.
• You are skilled and knowledgeable across programs in Adobe Suite -specifically Premiere Pro and After Effects- and are comfortable leading video editors, motion designers, and animators on projects.
• You have experience working in a fast-paced production environment and can juggle multiple tasks and projects whilst remaining calm.
• You possess a combination of technical and creative knowledge about filmmaking and video post-production.
• You are comfortable working on projects involving large-scale video for events, like projections and LED walls.
• You have experience of working with corporations and brands and producing branded content.
• Ideally you have experience in managing multi-camera shoots, editing, and lighting.
• You have strong organisational and time management skills.
• You are a team player, a snappy thinker on your feet, and solutions driven.
• Excellent communicator – The ability to approach conversations using the right blend of personable and professional to collaborate effectively both internally with departments and externally with freelancers and clients.
• Flexible – Understanding that in the world of content and events, it is not one-size-fits-all and approaching every request with an open mind and solutions-driven mindset.

Day to day responsibilities:

Management and Delivery

• Manage and oversee end-to-end production on projects, from initial briefings to final delivery.
• Work side by side with the Head of Content, and in collaboration with creative and client services to ensure the project needs are met at all times.
• Create timelines for content productions, respecting all key milestones and deadlines.
• Strive to find cost efficiencies at every opportunity when owning a budget for a project, whilst respecting company budget policy and margins.
• Grow critical client and vendor relationships and be confident and comfortable with communicating and presenting to clients.
• Ideally, you will have an established production network locally within the UK, and the ability to seek out an extended production network outside of the UK when needed.
• Collaborate with the Studio Manager when managing the recruitment of content-related freelance staff – from sourcing to onboarding.
• Continually optimise project workflow to find optimum ways of working.
• Improve content production processes and protocols, and work across the development and implementation of organisational systems and procedures.
• Keep Event Concept at the forefront of key production trends.
• Willing to get hands-on with projects while mentoring team members related to in-tools skill sets and upskilling.

New Business and Pre-Production

• Attend briefing sessions and ensure we have received all necessary information when receiving briefing forms.
• Actively contribute ideas in brainstorming sessions.
• When handling a new request, advise and vet resource, reaching out to external freelancers and production partners for responses as needed, and pulling together client quotes alongside the Head of Content.
• Interpret briefs and create concrete, creative solutions which may occasionally include storyboarding or narrative scriptwriting.
• Working on identified client content projects and pitches: including generating creative ideas and solutions, planning, attending meetings, overseeing / directing shoots, being across postproduction and delivery of assets.

Production

• Oversee video edits and ensure a clear brief is given to the Editor.
• Oversee edit producing, edit sign off, viewings and sign off with the Head of Content.
• Oversee motion design and ensure Motion Designer has a clear brief and workplan and process for working with the editor.
• Ensure that brand and legal guidelines are adhered to when producing / directing content.
• On occasions when we have video production requirements, help lead and direct on assigned shoots.
• Advise on kit and technical requirements for shoots.
• Some projects involve creating clever PowerPoint decks that can blur the line of traditional slides and interesting animation and motion – feeling comfortable to brief in PPT Designers is a plus.

Why EC?

We create experiences that matter for the people that matter to our clients, but nothing we do is possible without our people.

When we ask our people ‘what is it you love about working at EC?’ the top answer is always the same “the people!”

We teach each other, we learn from each other and there will always be someone who has your back.

We make the extraordinary, everlasting.

Your voice.  Your growth.  Your experience.  #YourEC