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Like camp counselors (minus the whistles and poison ivy), vivid's Producers make sure that everybody gets along, plays fair, and shows up for Arts 'n Crafts on time. In addition to budgetary and scheduling matters, producers are also responsible for team and client management, writing proposals and requirements documents, resolving conflicts, facilitating project post-mortems, and taking everyone out to celebrate when the project is finished.

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Senior Producer
Ongoing

The Senior Producer is responsible for managing large, multi-phased web development projects. This role requires both project-specific and client partnering competencies. In the project-specific arena, the Senior Producer must have extensive experience managing large teams of diverse professionals and must understand and be able to coordinate web strategy, design, and technology. This person must also have budget and scheduling capabilities with considerable experience bringing projects to completion on time and within budget.

As a client partner, the Senior Producer works with client teams and third-party vendors in a consultative relationship--interpreting, defining, and implementing business solutions. Candidates must have experience with -- and a strong understanding of -- business structures and client dynamics. They must also be able to effectively manage new business priorities presented by clients in fast-moving business sectors.

The Senior Producer role is primarily billable, with approximately 75% time spent on a project. Senior Producers will typically manage one project, most commonly using a phased development approach -- strategy and conceptual phases followed quickly with rapid prototyping and implementation phases. In certain situations, however, Senior Producers may be involved in several projects concurrently.

The Senior Producer is expected to be a leader within the Producerís Group, proposing and developing new development processes, adapting new approaches to client and team management, and adding or improving project deliverables. Mentoring more junior members of the department, both on project and off, is also required.

This role requires strong collaboration with Department Managers, Business Development Leads, and Web Strategists.

Qualifications:

Project Management

• A minimum of four years experience in some combination of internet, software, or CD-ROM project management and development. This experience should range from definition of requirements through post-release support and maintenance. Web experience (minimum 6 months) is required for this position.
• Experience estimating, tracking, and managing multi-phase project budgets in the range of $500K-1.5MM.
• Knowledge of business strategy, marketing, technology and design, and able to lead teams comprising of experts in these disciplines.
• Experience establishing working environments that are creative, collaborative, productive, supportive, and fun.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Expertise with project management tools, techniques, and procedures including intermediate level Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel competency.

Strategic Definition and Client Partnering

• Ability to identify and interpret clientís business requirements and experience developing project requirements including project scope and feature lists.
• Experience working with top management teams along with the ability to successfully identify and support key client stakeholders, team members, and their organizational requirements and goals.
• At least three years experience working with, negotiating with, and partnering with external clients.
• Ability to create and close new business opportunities within existing client organizations.
• Experience working with new and innovative technologies and services.
• Experience developing and managing relationships with product and service partners.

In addition to the above project management requirements, Senior Producer candidates must have significant experience and mastery in at least one of the following areas of specialization:

• management of large technical projects
• strategic business analysis, organizational analysis and influence, or channel development and/or integration
• online venture business strategy
• online advertising and/or online venture marketing
• ecommerce (business-to-consumer and/or business-to-business)
• editorial processes and content management systems
• corporate marketing and communications
  

Responsibilities:

Project Management
The Senior Producer is responsible for team and client communication, scheduling, budgeting, resource planning, and general project management. The Senior Producer will be asked to manage teams of up to 20 people of varying disciplines -- overseeing project budgets and schedules during project development, coordinating the drafting of requirements documents and other project specifications, and managing the project to meet staff, time, and budgetary requirements. This person will work with Department Managers to set and track team member responsibilities. They will conduct risk and opportunity analysis and control; provide leadership in dealing with conflict resolution, decision making, and team interaction; and monitor and facilitate communication among all project participants.

Strategic Definition and Client Partnering
The Senior Producer will work with client teams to identify business issues and then work with vividís Strategic Services Group to develop and scope solutions to these issues. The Senior Producer will help to take broad Internet initiatives and turn them into solid project plans with measurable goals and milestones. The Senior Producer is the primary client contact on all projects. This person must be extremely client oriented, able to partner effectively with clients and client stakeholders, and is expected to educate, support, and collaborate with clients.

Writing samples will be required from those applicants selected for interviews (bonus points for providing sample budgets, schedules, specs and other project management documents).