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Business Unit: Company 3

Position: Executive Producer (Finishing)

Location: New York, NY (On Site)

Pay Range: $170,000 - $200,000 USD annually

The Executive Producer (Finishing) is responsible for overseeing all aspects of flame-focused post‑production projects, including managing active accounts, supporting Flame artists and producers, and ensuring seamless execution in collaboration with internal teams. This role plays a key part in growing the business by cultivating strong relationships with clients, identifying new opportunities, and working closely with leadership, production, flame leads and sales to support strategic goals.

The Executive Producer’s core responsibilities include driving and maintaining revenue for the company and the Finishing team through strategic client relationships and proactive sales efforts, actively pursuing leads and new business opportunities to expand the Finishing client base, and overseeing Finishing reels and other sales collateral in collaboration with leadership and marketing teams. They will spearhead the bidding, scheduling, and planning for all Finishing projects (act as the primary contact for clients during the bid process), manage project budgets from start to finish, including identifying and communicating overages as needed, and mentor and support the production team, fostering professional development and collaboration.

• Partner with Leadership and Marketing to identify and execute PR and promotional opportunities
• Oversee artist (Flame) management, including workload balance, scheduling, and development
• Serve as a liaison between Production and Sales, ensuring alignment on workflow, capacity, and opportunities
• Act as a brand and cultural ambassador for the studio, representing the Finishing team internally and externally
• Collaborate with Accounting to ensure timely and accurate billing in line with client expectations and project delivery
• Monitor industry trends, client output, and competitor activity to inform strategy and positioning
• Own and track the growth of Finishing team billings, including schedule optimization and revenue targets
• Maintain close contact with other studios

The Executive Producer will also be responsible for managing time during sessions, ensuring alignment with booked schedules and maximizing efficiency for clients and Colorists, coordinating sharing of viewing links during sessions and facilitating client engagement (e.g., DP, director involvement), and overseeing project prep, render workflows, and handoff processes to ensure completion and delivery. They will maintain and update client databases, historical job records, bids, and invoicing documentation, conduct quality control checks on review links and final project deliveries, and follow up on delivery of final masters, ensuring client satisfaction and completion.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in an Executive Producer role, specifically for VFX and/or Finishing. They must have prior experience and demonstrated success in bidding, client relation building, and business development. Experience with staff recruitment, training, mentorship, and performance management are also a must; along with strong leadership skills, with the ability to coach and motivate teams under pressure and within tight deadlines.

• Ability to problem solve complex VFX heavy projects through mentorship and collaboration
• Collaborate on sales strategies and confident in committing to revenue growth and sales targets
• Exceptional client and talent management skills, with a focus on relationship building and retention
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments and with senior leadership
• Ability to inspire trust, foster collaboration, and drive consensus in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with advanced time and project management capabilities
• Proven ability to prioritize competing demands and navigate complex workflows
• Composed and confident under pressure, particularly in fast‑paced, client-facing situations
• Strong desire to drive change and improve operational efficiency through thoughtful, experience-driven input
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to work proactively with minimal oversight
• Willingness and flexibility to travel and attend client engagements, sales meetings, events, and industry functions as needed
• A hands‑on, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude and team‑first mindset

Company 3, including its various business units and family of brands, provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre‑vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live‑action production, experiences, and more.

Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.

It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the Company’s HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or otherwise need any accommodation or support in order to participate in the application process.

*The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the range may be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs.

The benefits for eligible part‑time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full‑time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part‑time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local benefits plan offerings as adopted and amended from time to time will apply.

The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws.

This position is for an existing vacancy. Both external and internal candidates can apply for this role through the Company’s Career Page. The Company generally only contacts those individuals who have submitted an application which it wishes to interview. The application window for this position is expected to close by July 2, 2026.