Be Part of What's Next
Join a team that brings compelling stories to life through seamless production operations. As a Temporary Production Manager, you'll play a critical role in ensuring production workflows run efficiently, enabling creative teams to focus on delivering exceptional content while maintaining operational excellence.
About Hearst Magazines (Why Us?)
Hearst Magazines is home to 30 brands that inspire, inform, and entertain audiences across print, digital, social, video, and experiential platforms. Our iconic portfolio reaches millions of consumers through trusted brands, powered by innovative storytelling, world-class talent, and a collaborative culture that values creativity, curiosity, and impact.
Key Responsibilities (What You Are Doing)
- Serve as the primary point of contact for vendor setup and payment processing, ensuring timely and accurate execution.
- Partner with Strategic Procurement, Supplier Administration, and Finance teams to manage vendor setup, purchase orders, contracts, project codes, and payment workflows.
- Oversee day-to-day production operations, including freelancer onboarding, timecard management, p-card reconciliation, contract administration, and production tracking systems.
- Maintain and enhance production management databases, trackers, and reporting tools to support operational efficiency and accurate record-keeping.
- Collaborate with producers, line producers, and video leads to track project budgets, forecast costs, process invoices, and help ensure projects remain on budget.
- Monitor production processes and identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, and operational consistency.
- Support cross-functional teams by providing production coordination and administrative expertise across multiple projects.
Qualifications (What We’re Looking For)
- 3+ years of experience in production management, production operations, project coordination, or a related field.
- Experience managing vendor setup, purchase orders, contracts, invoices, and payment workflows.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience supporting production budgets, cost forecasting, and financial tracking.
- Proficiency with production tracking systems, databases, and reporting tools, with exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across creative, finance, procurement, and operations teams.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a focus on continuous process improvement.
- This is a hybrid role based in New York City, requiring 4 days per week in the office.
The hourly pay range for this role is $37.50–$40.00 per hour. This position is not eligible for bonus or commission compensation. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Hearst Magazines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in production management, production operations, project coordination, or related field
- Experience managing vendor setup, purchase orders, contracts, invoices, and payment workflows
- Experience with freelancer onboarding, timecard management, and p-card reconciliation
- Experience supporting production budgets, cost forecasting, and financial tracking
- Proficiency with production tracking systems, databases, and reporting tools
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across creative, finance, procurement, and operations teams
- Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with focus on continuous process improvement
- Ability to work hybrid in New York City, 4 days per week in the office
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
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