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Posted March 27, 2023
Night

Head of Production, YouTube, Codie Sanchez

Night
United States Remote ⚠ [Archived] No Longer Accepting Applicants

Head of Production Role and Duties

We are seeking an experienced Head of Production to oversee day-to-day operations. The position will require working directly with Codie Sanchez, and taking the channel to 1 million subscribers and beyond. You will lead the Youtube team including strategic planning, scheduling, budgeting, team management, growth. The successful candidate will be proactive, quick-thinking, flexible, and able to juggle multiple responsibilities and wear multiple hats. You balance herding cats (aka creatives) and bringing out the magic in the team. Both on-set and field experience are required. You will be tasked with bringing the rigor of traditional production organization to a Creator based content company. Spoiler: we need it.

  • Reporting to Codie Sanchez
  • Lead production team and oversee editorial team.
  • Hiring and firing
  • Planning global schedules, shoot schedules, editorial schedules
  • Building a centralized folder structure for all production documentation
  • Finding vendors and freelance personnel
  • Developing staff, and career development of internal production personnel, retention, reviews.
  • Work with our head of content, head of marketing and Night Media agency to ensure profitability and consistency
    • Including Budget approvals, cash flow reconciliation, and final cost reports
  • Lead all promotion and paid activations, hitting all timelines.
  • Ensure productions run smoothly, meet deadlines, and stay within budget
  • Collaborate with internal teams (including Post) and external production team to lock schedules and deliver on schedule
  • Lead in-house studio production team to ensure workflow tasks are completed and production issues are communicated.
  • Troubleshoot and communicate all production changes to internal and external teams
  • Direct and approve hiring of key production team
  • Consult on build out of studio facility for both video and post-production
  • Keep the culture thriving, make sure employees are happy, well rounded, professional.
  • Willingness to work odd hours and weekends as needed

Needs:

  • To be based in the US, bonus if you are located in Austin, Texas
  • To work on central standard timezone
  • To have historical experience in production on a Youtube Team

About Contrarian Thinking:

Contrarian Thinking is digital media company, education business and an investment firm. We are one of the fastest growing business focused media companies with 60 million views a month and 3 million social followers. We have 24 businesses that comprise our enterprise and are launching several new channels and businesses this year. We are led by Codie Sanchez as a creator driven company.

We obsess on freeing minds and growing bank accounts.