Producer, Creative Arts​/Media, Creative Advertising ​/ Marketing

Company Description

Publicis is an omni-channel communications agency with over 600 employees across our Canadian operations.

The office is the largest in our industry in Canada and boasts talent across various disciplines of marketing and advertising expertise. Publicis carries a balanced split of Canadian, U.S. and Global clients for which we are Agency of Record. Publicis supports a range of D&I actions through our Driving Change team as well as giving back to the community through a long-standing participation in the Out of the Cold Program.

With a strong, active and familial culture, Pub United is the agency’s social club, hosting events as wide reaching as Curling, Trivia Nights and more.

The Producer supports the clients and ideals of their creative lead agency, all under the vision of their Head of Production. Directly reports to an SVP/Group EP or VP EP, depending on creative agency department needs & structure.

The Producer is responsible for translating creative ideas into project plans and deliverables across their specific discipline(s) of expertise. In addition to fundamental producer skills (listed below), to be on the Production team requires solid critical thinking and analytical skills, as well as a passion for guiding creative ideas from brief through project launch. The ideal candidate for this position will have ambitions of work that pushes creative and technological limits and experience in delivering a variety of integrated projects completed on time, within budget and to the highest level of creative standards.

Broadcast, Digital, and OLV content production

Responsible for excellence in all day-to-day aspects of production including scoping and ball parking creative concepts, building detailed project schedules, managing project scope, researching and securing production resources, quality controlling all deliverables, maintaining project documentation and communication with holistic project teams.

• Able to work independently, sometimes on concurrent projects, ensure error free, on time and on budget productions all while meeting or exceeding creative objectives and expectations.
• Represents a craft expertise but responsible for actively learning, developing and further growing skills through exposure to cross discipline productions.
• Responsible for ‘managing up’ to Executive Producer (possibly Senior Producer) and proactively seeking support/guidance when needed.
• Able to research, identify, select and negotiate production vendor partnerships (internally and externally) based on both scope/budget/timeline of project and which partner is best suited to execute the creative vision.
• Responsible for supporting and participating in our efforts in cultivating a diverse, equal and inclusive culture of production within our work.
• Communicates proactively with Creative, Account Services, Business Affairs and Media partners on all aspects of the production including milestones, deliverables and due dates to keep the production process flowing smoothly.
• Demonstrates the ability to both knowledgeably use and explain talent verbiage to larger Agency team.
• Responsible for building critical relationships and maintaining the agency’s reputation and standard of excellence with the internal and external production industry.
• Stays on top of industry trends, craft-makers, techniques, directors, photographers, and new technologies and utilizes expertise and passion for production to inspire and educate the Department and Agency overall in an effort to elevate the lead creative agency’s creative product.
• Integrate AI-driven tools into creative and production processes to boost efficiency, elevate content quality, and stay ahead of emerging trends in technology and storytelling.

• Approaches each assignment with curiosity, open-mindedness and forward thinking.
• Works to pursue the best creative ideas and creates an environment supportive of the best creative.
• Passionate about ideas, brands, the agency and our clients’ business.
• Collaborative team member that actively seeks out and tries to understand the opinions of others, listens well.
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic that is…