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About the Opportunity Shutterstock enables our customers, partners, contributors, and employees to achieve their goals and realize new opportunities. Our continued growth opens new doors as we scale our platform, expand our offerings and build a company that’s ready for the future! The newly formed custom content and branded production arm of Shutterstock – Shutterstock Studios – has an opening for a critical role within the global organization, one that will be tasked with owning the AI Services bidding process and in doing so create compelling, market-ready bids to fuel our rapidly growing business. The Studio is made up of best-in-class producers and creatives designed to execute creative excellence while delivering an exceptional client experience. Shutterstock Studios has had an incredible year of growth – the global production studio has scaled from producing highly creative social content to producing TV spots, integrated digital campaigns, custom 3D animation, and original long form documentaries for the world's biggest brands and agencies. The Studio is a highly sophisticated, global interconnected creative and production solution – designed to service across all content needs for video, photo, experiential, music, 3D, Generative AI, animation, and XR. We’re seeking an experienced Bidding Producer with extensive experience working across commercial global production with the ability to support multiple bids at once. The ideal candidate is proactive, highly collaborative and has exceptional organizational skills.The candidate will be integral to the growth of the business, partnering with sales, production team and clients to make sure responses are to a high standard, matching clients needs and helping to drive growth and client relationships. Note - This is starting as a temporary, 6 months fixed-term assignment with the possibility to extend.

• Strategically respond to RFPs and new business opportunities in partnership with the Director of AI Services & Ops, VP of Product Innovation.
• Support client discovery sessions to identify client needs, project goals and technical requirements.
• Develop scopes, budgets and timelines that balance client objectives, technical feasibility, operational efficiency, and profitability.
• Partner with Director of AI Services & Ops and VP of Product Innovation to create client-facing materials.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to shape scalable solutions.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Client Partner and Production during the presale handoff process, ensuring opportunities are clearly scoped and set up for successful onboarding.
• Lead presale communications and workflows, keeping stakeholders aligned on scope, assumptions, timelines, and project status.
• Maintain pricing frameworks, rate cards, and scoping standards in line with market conditions and evolving AI service models.
• Organize and maintain bidding trackers and production finance trackers.
• Stay informed of industry trends, emerging technologies, and market pricing.

• Minimum of 5 years experience in commercial production, creative services, technical production, or related fields.
• 3+ years working in a client-facing capacity.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and make informed recommendations with incomplete information.
• Expertise in varying production outputs with a specialism in post production.
• Strong production finance understanding (budgeting critical).
• Experience in all forms of production, video, stills, animation, motion graphics, generative AI at different budget levels.
• Experience working and negotiating with all talent levels.
• Can-do attitude is a must.
• Experience leading bid responses, RFP’s, pitch materials.
• Excellent time management and attention to detail.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.

You have a direct impact on the success of the company. Your team’s work matters and is essential to the evolution of our core business! Executive leadership cares personally. They prioritize growth and planning your career path with your goals and passions in mind. Flexibility to work between home and office with everything you need to be successful in both A generous and competitive benefits package. Shutterstock connects diverse artists and creative professionals around the globe with the agencies, brands and people who need their work and services. It’s a place where creators come to be inspired and discover new ways to produce their best work. Shutterstock enables its employees to drive culture and tap into the world around them to develop the toolbox and solutions that help others share their world views. At Shutterstock, your ideas will be welcomed, your uniqueness will be celebrated, and you will be supported in presenting your view of the world as you experience it. We’re champions of resiliency; quickly learning from our shortcomings in our pursuit of continuous growth. Diverse teams are critical to our success. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply and we commit to creating and maintaining a culture where employees know they belong and have equal opportunities to succeed.

Hourly rate range for this role in the New York City Area is $52.88-$57.69 per hour.

Shutterstock Values We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors. Our Values represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock. Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accommodation_request@shutterstock.com.

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 1 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 340 million images and more than 19 million video clips available. Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The company’s brands also include Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering; Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty‑free music library; and Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media. For more information, please visit http://www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.

Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accommodation_request@shutterstock.com.

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