For Good & Co is hiring: Producer in Portland

Description:

FG&Co is looking for an experienced Producer to help our growing team.

The FG&Co brand is evolving as an agency by way of talent, experience, collaboration, and passion for creating inspiring work. It is an exciting time within the agency and this position will help lead the charge.

As a FG&Co Producer, you will work within our Production Department working alongside Creative, Strategy, Technical, Project Management and Account teams in pulling off whatever we dream up. You will act as the bridge between concepts and realistic execution within budget, making sure that projects are executed efficiently and flawlessly through their lifespan.

Producers produce a variety of projects and activations within the experiential and storytelling space ranging from virtual and live events to marketing tours and creative campaigns and everything in between. Producers collaborate closely with Project Managers, Creative Directors and Technical teams. They lead marketing tours, product launches, seeding kits, sales meetings, tradeshows, consumer and virtual events and creative campaigns.

FG&Co is a company of talented, hard-working and humble individuals.

The success of our company comes from living this culture:

We create work that our clients and their consumers are inspired by.

We collaborate to make sure nothing is missed.

We are real with clients and coworkers because we give a damn.

We get our hands dirty because it’s in our blood.

You are:

Passionate about strategically led work

Committed to creating experiences for other people

Organized with communication, collaboration, planning and prioritizing

Able to keep large teams on track and moving toward an often-unmovable deadline

An expert and tactful communicator

You can:

• Create and manage project budgets
• Initial estimates all the way to final invoice
• Source and manage vendors
• Create and manage onsite schedules and call sheets
• Lead pre/ pro and other production meetings
• Lead and support onsite teams
• Lead rehearsals
• Supervise all elements of crew travel
• Manage expectations internally regarding scope and feasibility within budget and timeline
• Show proficiency in the design and technical languages of all project types
• Show ability to simultaneously work within established process while remaining flexible and innovative

Project types include:

• Campaigns
• Resource Management
• Content Production
• Activation Management
• Event Management
• Live onstage with audio visual
• Virtual
• Live/ Virtual Hybrid
• Custom builds
• Scenic
• Vehicles
• Seeding Kits
• Swag
• Trade show booths
• Print projects
• Experiential activations
• Video/photo productions and shoots
• Trade show onsite management
• Marketing Tours
• Brand Ambassador sourcing and management
• Tour Logistics
• Staff Travel

Expectations:

• Show creativity in your resourcefulness and outside the box thinking
• Manage projects in their entirety from initial brief- in to final billing
• Show strong communication skills, including clear concise emails, messages, strong grammar, and verbal communication all with tactful execution
• Manage project budgets to maintain margins indicated on approved scope of work
• Effectively delegate and lead assigned production staff including but not limited to: production assistants, brand ambassadors, warehouse labor, staffing agencies, third party vendors.
• Have a strong understanding of internal project workflow and how to effectively utilize internal services. (i.e. Microsoft Teams utilization, email, text etc.)
• Confidently manage simultaneous projects
• Identify limits of capability and speak up if the project scope, or overall workload exceed their capacity to manage.
• Tactfully communicate deadlines and consequences of missing deadlines both internally and client- side
• Show forethought in planning. Stay one (or more) steps ahead of client and/ or PM requests on a regular basis
• Demonstrate adaptability to work with a wide range of client types
• Demonstrate accountability for all issues that happen on their projects
• Timely completion of timecards, expense reports, and any other required accounting needs
• Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills (Word, Excel, and PPT)
• Voluntarily seeks out additional learning such as working with Technical team on a tech capability or Creative team on a design process.
• Project Management team has confidence and trust in ability to meet deadlines, deliver accurate information, collaborate effectively with teams and notify of issues.
• Account team has confidence and trust in ability to communicate with the client and deliver accurate information.
• Timely completion of timecards, expense reports, and any other required accounting needs

General Requirements:

• 5- 7 years of relatable industry experience
• Manage a project in its entirety with no senior producer supervision
• Can comfortably manage 5+ simultaneous projects
• Manage projects with all facets (i.e. any and all internal departments)
• Onsite custom build projects
• Including sourcing venues
• Negotiating contracts with both venues and contractors
• Detail oriented and creative approach to managing vendors
• Live events of 0 - 1000+ attendees
• More complicated photo and video shoots (multi day, traveling outside PDX)
• Mastery of industry terms and processes
• Theatrical language
• Photo and Film
• Print and digital

Valid driver’s license and maintaining a driving record acceptable to FG&Co’s insurance carrier for inclusion on our auto liability policy.

Frequent business travel and significant on-site event duties.

This is a hybrid position based in Portland, OR and requires some in office presence.

General Requirements for all FG&Co positions:

• Deep commitment to customer service and quality
• Creative, resourceful, and flexible approach to solving problems
• Excellent investigative and research skills
• Demonstrated written and oral communication skills
• Ability to operate quickly and independently
• Highly developed organizational and delegation skills
• Good instincts: ability to make strong decisions and follow through
• Commitment to teamwork and collaborative solutions
• Diplomacy and tact inside and outside the company
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate internally to our team and externally to clients, vendors
• Professional, fiscally responsible and frugal management of company resources
• Ability to accomplish any task with minimal instruction or supervision
• Ability to take direction, learn quickly, and adapt to the situation at hand

Salary range for this position DOE. You will receive up to three weeks paid vacation, thirteen paid holiday days; paid sick time; 100% employer-paid health, dental, vision, disability and term-life policy premiums for employee; insurance benefits available for dependents which is paid by employee through pre-tax 125 cafeteria plan; FSA or HSA plans available for employee-paid co-pays/deductibles or dependent care expenses; 401k plan; gated employee parking; cell phone & transportation stipend; company-paid outings.

Position requires sitting or standing for long periods of time, lifting up to 30 pounds, extensive use of a computer, driving an automobile and personal automobile available for business use (mileage is reimbursed), occasional national travel with out-of-town stays as long as seven days (sometimes longer), non-compete agreement and non-disclosure agreement.

For Good & Co is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.

No recruiters please.

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