Rolling Stone seeks an Executive Producer, Branded Content. The Executive Producer plays a key role on a team where creativity, marketing, and commerce come together. As a brand representative for Rolling Stone, this role will help to drive revenue and audience awareness across multiple platforms through creative and innovative branded content and lead a growing creative team on the Marketing side.

Responsibilities:

• Bring creativity, collaboration, and curiosity to a cross-functional marketing team
• Research, report, write and edit content across platforms, including digital and print media
• Join pre-sale brainstorms and collaborate with sales and strategy on proposal development including ideation, talent, and budgets
• Manage program pre-production and development including creative timelines, video treatments, talent recommendations, and article ideation
• Manage creative program execution including pre-production, on-set production, talent interviews, talent management, article writing, post-production supervision, and event creative support
• Work closely with talent acquisition team to work with talent/talent teams for campaign logistics, creative participation, music licensing
• Ensure event content capture is managed end-to-end
• Liaise with the editorial team and advise on program creativity, timelines, and elements
• Identify and hire freelance program support as needed and process all contracts and payments including writers, producers, editors, directors, photographers, stylists, hair and make-up, etc.
• Oversee all digital production including copywriting and digital publishing of articles and videos in WordPress
• Work with Project Management to provide timelines and estimated budgets for pre-sale pitches
• Coordinate communication across cross-functional teams – Marketing, Vendors, Clients, Legal
• Work with Project Management to provide and track various project documentation – i.e. SOWs, releases
• Supervise AP/Producer
Requirements:

• The candidate should be extremely detail-oriented and be able to multitask/handle many projects at once in a team-oriented environment
• 5 years of writing and producing experience at a major publication, brand, or network
• Exceptional written, verbal, and organizational skills
• Proficient in content publishing including WordPress
• Strong freelance network of writers, producers, editors, directors, photographers, production companies, DP's, editors
• Familiarity and comfort communicating with agency and client stakeholders
• Love of music and pop culture
• Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing
• Must be able to work independently and under pressure
• Exceptional proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint/Keynote, WordPress
• Strong knowledge of video codecs, file formats, and their workflows in relation to post-production
• Familiarity managing budgets
• Familiarity with Air Table is a plus
• Video editing experience with Adobe Premiere and/or Avid is a plus
• Ability to travel 25% of the time