Senior Producer, Wave Originals

Title: Senior Producer, Wave Originals

Reporting to: Executive Producer, Originals

Supervisory role: No

Classification: Full-time, Temp

Location: Hybrid in Santa Monica, CA

Compensation: $93,600 - $119,600 Annual Base Salary

Wave Sports & Entertainment (Wave) is the leader in sports storytelling for the next generation reaching more than 130 million highly engaged followers globally. Wave’s award-winning, original programming is led by some of the most popular athletes and personalities in sports media -- including the hit digital series’ “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce,” “7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony,” “Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect,” and “Podcast P with Paul George” -- dishing out entertaining commentary, unique perspectives, expert analysis, and behind-the-scenes stories about the players and events that are shaping the world of sports.

Wave also holds partnerships with 100+ rights holders and sports properties, providing always-on programming to followers of the internet's largest and most engaged social communities.

Wave is seeking a Senior Producer to join the content team to lead a Celebrity, Lifestyle, and Pop Culture focused Wave Original. Overseeing the weekly development, pre-production, production execution, on-set management of talent and crew, post-production, and delivery of full episodes, shorts, and custom branded content for Wave Originals. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Brainstorming, ideating, pitching, and developing concepts, talent opportunities, and show beats on a weekly basis for the show.
• Communicating, collaborating, and ensuring approvals on concepts and show rundowns with all stakeholders prior to green lighting and shooting.
• Collaborating with the sales team to manage, track, and produce ad reads, drafting editorial and promotional copy for each show to ensure seamless integration within episodes.

• Creation of the show rundown week over week.
• Creating and managing the production schedule.
• Supporting the booking, rescheduling, and coordination of talent and guests for weekly shows.
• Supporting and leading pre-production planning meetings with talent, crew, and stakeholders as needed.

• Managing in-studio production, the set, crew, and vendors on shoot days.
• Executing creative while ensuring quality and consistency in tone, branding, messaging, and content goals for each episode and throughout the season.
• Virtually managing production on shoot days via Riverside when the shoot is fully remote.
• Manage recording logistics, including supporting the setup and technical settings of recording software.
• Directing and managing on-screen talent.
• Producing show extensions, including but not limited to episodes filmed on location for events, additional content, and branded content, with travel as needed.
• Ensuring all files are uploaded after each episode's taping.

• Leading post-taping production, social, and post-production debrief meetings.
• Providing story and edit notes on up to three rounds of cuts before locking the final episode.
• Ideating and selecting images and assets for cutdowns of supplemental content derived from hero episodes.
• Ensuring that show assets are sourced and procured, including submitting tickets for graphics and thumbnails.
• Overseeing the programming and publishing of cutdowns and full episodes for You Tube and podcast channels daily.
• Creating compelling HED/DEK titles for You Tube and audio platforms, and drafting timecodes for You Tube Shorts.

• Weekly meetings will focus on forward planning and post-mortem discussions of the previous week.
• Additional responsibilities will be updated as they pertain to this role, as determined by the EP.

• Deep knowledge and passion in Celebrity, Lifestyle, and Pop Culture verticals
• Minimum 5 years experience producing weekly podcasts or talk shows for notable network
• Experience producing and managing high-profile entertainment talent
• Detailed understanding of You Tube and audio podcast platforms best practices
• A highly creative storyteller. Able to write, produce, manage and execute projects from start to…