Director Content Production Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Group Director, Content Production

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.

About the role:

Within CHANEL's Artistic Direction, the Group Director, Content Producer is responsible for leading and elevating content production across the U.S. and selected global projects. This role ensures that creative ambition is translated into high-quality, impactful executions across photography, film, and integrated content. Reporting to the Head of Content and Creative Operations, the position plays a key role in structuring and evolving how content is produced, bringing clarity, operational discipline, and consistency across increasingly complex, multi-platform ecosystems. Operating at the intersection of creativity and production, the Group Director drives projects end-to-end, aligning stakeholders, setting direction, and ensuring that every execution meets CHANEL's standards of excellence.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

Project Ownership

• Own end-to-end content production, from initial brief through final delivery, ensuring each project embodies CHANEL's standards of beauty, craft, and creative excellence.
• Translate creative intent into clear, actionable production strategies, bringing structure, precision, and clarity across timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
• Anticipate challenges and proactively drive solution-oriented approaches, maintaining momentum across all phases of execution.
• Ensure production decisions are made with a deep understanding of the broader content ecosystem, how and where assets will live, and how they contribute to CHANEL's storytelling and brand impact.
• Bring a strong sensitivity to narrative, aesthetics, and visual expression, ensuring every production reinforces the House's distinctive identity.

Production Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the full production lifecycle (from pre-production through post-production and final delivery) ensuring excellence at every stage.
• Oversee all production elements including casting, locations, scheduling, vendor coordination, and on-set execution, acting as a key decision-maker to ensure quality and efficiency in real time.
• Manage post-production processes (editing, retouching, sound, delivery), ensuring all assets are fully validated, rights-cleared, and optimized for their intended platforms and audiences.
• Manage and elevate a network of external production and creative partners, setting clear expectations and ensuring consistently high standards of performance and delivery.

Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration

• Lead alignment across teams ensuring clarity of objectives and consistency of execution.
• Orchestrate validation and approval processes with rigor, ensuring the right decisions are made at the right time while maintaining project flow.
• Navigate complex stakeholder environments with strong emotional intelligence, fostering trust, accountability, and constructive collaboration across all partners.

Production Operations & Governance

• Oversee production budgets with rigor and transparency, ensuring strong financial discipline across all projects.
• Manage contracts, purchase orders, invoicing, and cost tracking, in close partnership with Finance and Legal to ensure compliance and operational integrity.
• Establish and maintain clear production tracking tools and dashboards, ensuring visibility across priorities, timelines, and resources.
• Ensure content is systematically archived and organized, enabling accessibility, consistency, and long-term value creation across the organization.
• Identify opportunities to optimize workflows and production processes, driving continuous improvement and sharing best practices with senior leadership.

Innovation & Evolving Production Models

• Stay closely attuned to emerging production technologies, including AI-enabled tools, digital twins, and new content creation models.
• Thoughtfully integrate innovation into production workflows to enhance efficiency, scalability, and creative possibilities, while preserving CHANEL's distinctive standards and craftsmanship.

You are energized by:

• Thriving in highly collaborative environments, building strong partnerships across teams and disciplines
• Bringing rigor and discipline to all aspects of production, with a strong focus on budget ownership, contractual clarity, and operational excellence
• Navigating complexity with clarity, and contributing to ongoing transformation and evolution within the organization
• Working alongside passionate, driven teams, fostering a culture of excellence and shared ambition
• Leading and developing others (whether internally or through external partners) while elevating collective performance
• Connecting the dots across challenges, bringing sharp attention to detail and a strong problem-solving mindset to drive meaningful outcomes

What you will bring to the team:

• Significant professional experience in content production in House within luxury, fashion, beauty, or a similarly high-standard creative environment
• Demonstrated expertise in managing complex productions end-to-end, across photography, film, and integrated campaign
• Strong financial and operational rigor, including ownership of production budgets, contract management, and vendor negotiation
• Experience navigating global and matrixed organizations, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders across markets and functions
• Familiarity with production and collaboration tools (e.g., production tracking systems, digital asset management platforms, or workflow tools such as Smartsheet or similar)
• Exposure to evolving production models and technologies, including AI-enabled tools, digital twins, or innovative content creation workflows
• A differentiated perspective or background that brings new value to the team (e.g. digital-first production, cross-industry experience, or innovative storytelling approaches)

Position Logistics:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in production, film, media, or a related field
• Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence at the designated location/office.
• Based in New York, with regular presence required in-office to support production and cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to travel as needed to support productions and key brand
• Flexibility to adapt to production schedules, including occasional evenings, weekends, or on-set presence as required
• Comfortable working in dynamic production environments, including on-set conditions that may require extended periods of standing or mobility

*Chanel, Inc. reserves the right to edit, change, or make exceptions on designations where circumstances where deemed appropriate.

Compensation:

• The anticipated base salary range for this position is $135,000 through $160,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay [may/will] be offered for this position. Other components [may/will] include bonus potential, benefits, and/or perks.

Benefits and Perks:

• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing (2-week August Office Closure) and a Wellbeing fund
• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)
• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
• 401K and other incentives
• Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking

Additional Information:

Chanel is a private company whose values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work. We offer a unique work environment where individuals are encouraged to better understand the brand, the business, and motivations, so that together we can unlock the possibilities of growth. This is reflected in:

Diversity and Inclusion:

• At CHANEL, we are intentional in promoting Diversity & Inclusion. We foster respect, empathy and dignity for all. We believe strongly that the diversity of our people across the full spectrum of human differences is essential to our organisation and the connections we have with each other and our clients.
• We offer Employee Resource Groups in the US that are voluntary, open to all, employee-led groups formed around a shared identity or lived experience, whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community aligned with the values and missions of the communities they support.

Chanel Community:

• CHANEL Community empowers our employees to channel their passions, talents and sense of purpose to contribute to and learn from our communities.
• Employees are encouraged to take time off annually to volunteer through CHANEL Community. CHANEL also matches employee donations to select charitable organizations.

Sustainability:

• CHANEL Mission 1.5 is our climate action plan. It is focused on transforming the business in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit the average global mean temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
• Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives.

Arts and Culture:

• We are committed to extending our legacy of cultural engagement. Global support includes the CHANEL Culture Fund, which supports a select group of leading art culture institutions across the globe, and the CHANEL Next Prize for the next generation of creative talent. US support currently includes Annual sponsorship of the MoMA film program, Tribeca Film Festival programs and Through Her Lens, Support of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and Sponsorship of the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center.

Fondation Chanel:

• Since 2011, Fondation CHANEL's mission is for women and girls to be free to shape their own destiny. Through multi-year partnerships with financial and technical support, Fondation CHANEL is committed to improving the safety and autonomy of women and adolescent girls around the world, impacting over a million women and girls in its first 10 years.
• For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here

Career and Leadership Development:

• We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs like Imagine Chanel People, Heart of Leadership and group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes offered on our Bloom platform and by skilled trainers, such as Shape Your Career, to develop career building skills.

*Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.