The Post Production Director plays a critical role in overseeing and managing the post-production process for projects, ensuring efficiency, quality control, and seamless communication between creative teams, vendors, and stakeholders. This position requires 10+ years of experience with a strong understanding of post-production workflows, vendor management, and project timelines to support the successful execution of high-quality deliverables.
What You Do:
- Collaborate with Production and Project Management teams to establish best practices for post-production budgeting, scheduling, and workflow management.
- Source, negotiate, and manage relationships with post-production vendors and freelance editors to ensure smooth project execution.
- Oversee the entire post-production timeline, ensuring all milestones and deliverables are met according to schedule and quality expectations.
- Implement and maintain efficient systems for backing up and organizing shoot drives on internal servers in coordination with Production Management.
- Serve as the primary liaison between SHADOW Creatives, freelance editors, and post-production vendors.
- Facilitate clear communication and workflow between internal creative teams and external stakeholders, including clients and Creative Directors.
- Ensure quality control at all stages of post-production, ensuring feedback is accurately translated into revisions and final deliverables meet the highest standards.
- Work closely with producers to ensure clarity and efficiency in creative notes and revision processes.
Operational Responsibilities & Communication
- Maintain structured and organized communication channels, utilizing SHADOW’s internal email and Slack accounts for seamless collaboration.
- Create and oversee internal policies for post-production workflows, ensuring smooth integration of post-production processes within the larger project management framework.
- Oversee and maintain Shadow’s media archival, delivery and asset management processes.
- Ensure compliance with internal and external stakeholder expectations, meeting all deadlines while upholding creative integrity.
- Weekend availability may be required for time-sensitive projects
- Prompt responsiveness to urgent production-related inquiries outside of standard hours is expected to ensure project continuity.
What You Bring:
- Extensive experience in post-production supervision, with a strong understanding of editing, motion graphics, color grading, and sound design processes.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality output.
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills, ensuring cost-effective and efficient project execution.
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills, with the ability to translate creative feedback into actionable steps.
- Technical proficiency with post-production software, workflows, and file management systems.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining attention to detail and creative standards.
Annual Compensation
$125K - $150K (commensurate with experience)
What We Provide:
- Medical + dental + vision insurance
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Dedicated mental health days
- Unlimited sick time
- Give Back. We want SHADOWs to extend their hearts and give back to their various communities and interests, on the clock! We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually (voluntary time off)
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Pre-tax commuter and healthcare benefits
- 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Individualized career mapping
- Summer Fridays (early close Fridays Memorial Day - Labor Day)
- Hybrid work schedule (1-3 days in office per week, depending on role)
While SHADOW intends to maintain these employee benefits, the Company reserves the right to modify, amend or terminate these benefits at any time and for any reason.
Additional Information
SHADOW promotes a diverse and high performing company culture. SHADOW is dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all qualified persons, and to recruit, hire, train, promote, and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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What We Do
SHADOW is a creative marketing and communications agency with integrated disciplines across media relations, influencer marketing, experiential and event production, social media management and content development.
Using these services, we shape insights and ideas into stories, animate stories into moments and engineer moments into movements.
We are also connectors – we create inter-client synergies to maximize opportunity as well as leverage industry relationships for introductions, partnerships, business development and more.
With a robust portfolio of brand campaigns, cross-categorical experience, and a deep rolodex of industry relationships, we have captured the loyalty of some of the world’s most prestigious companies, including luxury and lifestyle brands, retailers, tech start-ups, publishers, personalities, non-profit organizations and hospitality groups. We are a New York-based agency, with a west coast presence made possible through our SHADOWest suite of services.
