Created at: April 24, 2025 00:00
Company: Accenture
Location: Austin, TX, 73301
Job Description:
Who we are
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product, and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content, and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology, and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song
Film Production
The Film Production department specializes in all forms of storytelling from moving imagery and content, to animations and graphics, to audio, musical, and sonic led narratives. We are stewards to a compelling and ever-evolving network of production partners and endeavor to create industry defining creative executions. Key considerations at the heart of all our productions include budget and time management, ethical and sustainable solution planning, and innovative creative development and amplification.
Job Summary
Representing the department at its highest level and standards, the Executive Producer, Film is responsible for leading production process, driving craft, and championing innovative production strategies and solutions that promote and elevate each of our client’s creative outputs. Working closely with all production disciplines, agency internal teams, and external clients, the Executive Producer, Film sets the bar for production knowledge, experience, ambition, and execution. Working immediately below the Director and Associate Director of Film Production, they work alongside all production sub-disciplines in addition to being expected to step in and lead their own individual projects. The Executive Producer, Film also plays a larger role in the ethos of the department by guiding and training junior members and reinforcing the consistency of established production process and output standards.
Job Responsibilities
Work alongside the Creative department to establish a creative point of view and push to improve creative output through execution and craft
Represent, at all times, a total mastery of the production process including complete and thorough knowledge of the single and competitive bidding process, production calendar planning, union and non-union budget projections and planning (e.g. rates and structures), legal and ethical risk, billing, meeting arrangements, confidentiality, and indemnification, etc.)
Research and share best practices and learnings across different production models
Proactively oversee the day-to-day communications activities (daily team check-ins, regular reporting to Business Affairs and Department heads, billing, meeting arrangements, confidentiality, and indemnification, etc.)
Build and maintain robust client specific administrative systems (e.g. onboarding decks and presentation materials) and adhere scrupulously to existing ones
Take ownership of internal team and production partner’s time management needs (meeting scheduling, setting up conference/video calls, establishing production needs and expectations, etc.)
Provide internal client and agency production expertise (production travel planning, expense management, client material resourcing, etc.) as well as keeping up to date with all industry best practices, informing internal teams and clients of all current and future industry protocols and initiatives
Effectively set and manage internal and external production, budget, and timing expectations with the team and client and provide clearly communicated realities, solutions, and opportunities before and throughout the process
Guide and mentor junior members of the team, celebrating successes in addition to delivering precise and timely feedback and follow up
Identify potential opportunities to push internal production initiatives including identifying and securing sustainable and inclusive production capabilities as well as working with teams to see them come to life
Regularly contribute and expand upon the team’s knowledge of production partners – Directors, editors, VFX, Sound engineers, musicians etc.
Work closely with the Business Affairs Department (including Talent and Traffic) to oversee quality control and close out projects in a thorough, consistent, and timely manner
Forge strong relationships with internal and external teams that create sustainable, scaleable, and long-lasting client standards and processes
Always lend a positive hand and lead by example (internally and externally) no matter the challenge and recognize that, as an expert within the department the team and agency look to you for proactive, productive, and constructive leadership
Directly produce work in addition to managing our overall brands and production teams
Oversee and manage the assigned client’s scoping needs. Work alongside the Production Operations lead and secure necessary resourcing for upcoming work streams
Be client facing and act as the key voice for production and intersection between agency teams
Work with Account and Creative leadership to strategically plan forward the long-term production opportunities that will most benefit our client’s and the work
Adhere to established administrative systems and agency best practices