Executive Producer

What you'll do...

Production Strategy & Program Leadership: 

• Lead the end-to-end production strategy across a multifaceted content portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and brand objectives.  
• Establish scalable workflows, operational frameworks, and quality controls to ensure consistent and efficient delivery. 
• Manage multiple concurrent productions, overseeing development, budgeting, scheduling, execution, and post-production pipelines. 

Agency & Partner Leadership:

• Own the creative RFP briefing process acting as the primary liaison and assignment editor for external agencies and production houses.  
• Maintain and expand a network of top-tier directors, DPs, editors, and emerging creators. 
• Provide ongoing leadership and creative oversight to ensure output meets brand standards, strategic goals, and performance benchmarks. 

Budget & Resource Leadership:

• Develop, manage, and track production budgets, across a high-volume, cross departmental content program, ensuring cost-effective use of resources without compromising quality.  
• Lead contracts negotiations, manage vendor relationships, ensure compliance with rights, licensing and legal requirements.  
• Implement operation best practices, production governance and risk migration plans.  

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Work closely with internal stakeholders across marketing, public relations, internal communications, and executive leadership to understand their content needs and translate them into actionable production plans. 
• Guide teams toward shared creative and operational goals through clear communication, leadership and collaborative problem-solving. 
• Maintain strong relationships across internal departments to streamline inter-departmental communication and find efficiencies where possible. 

Innovation Insights & Creative Excellence: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in content production and communications. Continuously seek opportunities to innovate and improve our production processes and output. Collaborate with the Strategy and Planning team on measurement and content effectiveness across our channels. 

On-Location Support:

Serve as the on-site production lead for key shoots, ensuring operational execution, creative fulfillment and safety protocols as needed across diverse environments  

Manage production teams troubleshoot challenges, and maintain alignment with strategic creative vision.   

You’ll have…

• 10 years of experience in film, digital production, creative operations or integrated campaign leadership  
• Batchelor’s degree or higher in relevant subject 

Even better, you may have…

• Film industry background 
• Industry relationships with DPs, production houses and small creators  
• Experience with talent, rights and licensing 
• Experience managing complex delivery schedules 
• Demonstrated ability to build and optimize production systems and workflow  

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service 
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day 
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. 

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.  
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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