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Clients & Delivery
* Oversee Producers across multiple complex projects across a wide range of delivery techniques ensuring that good process is followed and project reporting is accurate and timely.
* Oversee all budgets within your team, focusing on delivering healthy margins and managing scope creep.
* Ensure you guide your team to develop meaningful client relationships, including through effective communication, project management and meeting delivery and quality objectives – owning these relationships where necessary and acting as an escalation point.
* Negotiate contracts independently and balance risk appropriately for the business.
* Identify potential risks to the business/projects and take preemptive actions to mitigate.
* Serve as the final check/gatekeeper for all deliverables, including writing and editing communications as needed.
* Delivering our most complex projects as Lead Producer.
Business Development
* Own creative pitch briefs, attend pitch briefings and guide on scoping, pricing and structure where necessary.
* Allocate appropriate team members to work on the pitch and review responses ensuring they align with business objectives and project scope.
* Present the project to clients in pitches or support others in doing so.
Leadership
* Mentor producers and their development within projects and production teams.
* Maintain consistency over the management of all projects and lead regular reviews alongside the Executive Creative Director to ensure client objectives are met balanced with creative requirements.
* Evaluate the current status of the industry and market to ensure delivery of relevant and useful products, messages or branding.
* Anticipate the future direction of the industry using both research and own insight and bring the company into the forefront of that trajectory, contributing and leading in project shareouts, industry shareouts and any internal strategy.
HR
* Line manage senior & mid level producers, nurturing their career trajectories.
* Lead performance reviews of direct reports.
* Ensure continued professional development/training of team members.
* Act as hiring manager for all senior producers within the team, identifying requirements, agreeing job descriptions and advertisements and participating in interviews and selection processes.
* Participate in the interview and selection process for all junior and mid-level producer hires, overseeing the senior producer as hiring manager.
* Participate in the interview and selection process for all team members alongside the Executive Creative Director.
* Serve as a role model and mentor within Squint and externally; participate in knowledge shares, actively improve Squint’s processes, deliver thought leadership.
Character Traits
* Field awareness: able to absorb many variables and be decisive about next steps.
* Strategic mindset; thinks outside the box.
* Independent; able to work with little supervision.
* Gifted at multitasking and prioritizing.
* Natural leadership.
* Conflict resolution.
* Financial acuity.
* Collaborative.
* Eloquence, command.
* Reliability.
* Empathy, warmth, compassion.
* Highly attentive to detail.
Qualification / Experience
* 5+ years of account management experience.
* Proven success launching large scale campaigns or experiential projects.
* Interest in all aspects of the production cycle.
Our Values
* Embrace change.
* Seek invention.
* Increase our knowledge.
* Say it simply.
* Ego-free.
Hours
09.30 - 18.00 Mon - Friday
Salary Pay Range
£65,000—£80,000 GBP
About Journey
Journey is a global design and innovation studio pioneering multidimensional experiences (MDX) that transform how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world. With studios in New York, London, Miami, and Dubai, we blend strategy, design, technology, and narrative to create sensory-rich journeys that ignite emotion and deepen connections between people, brands, and culture. Journey was formed in 2022 by visionary leaders who refuse to accept limits. United through the acquisitions of award‑winning studios ICRAVE, Squint/Opera, 59, and VMI Studio, together, we form something new: a multidimensional design practice with unparalleled expertise across the physical, immersive, and digital realms. Our framework continually evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game‑changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry‑first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions. No other full‑service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital‑patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theatre, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.
Seniority level
* Director
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
* Design Services
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