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About The Role
The Executive Producer will lead and oversee the local post-production teams, focusing on enhancing bandwidth and driving innovation in our processes. This role involves managing all aspects of post production, including identifying partners, timing, budgeting, and sourcing deliverables across various accounts. A strong understanding of creative deliverables across multiple mediums is essential, along with the ability to leverage innovative technologies and AI to optimize internal workflows while maintaining traditional practices.

The ideal candidate will bring creative visions to life while elevating the work through close collaboration with internal teams. The Executive Producer should ensure that post production processes are efficient and effective, fostering a positive environment that empowers team members to excel.

This role requires maintaining regular communication with integrated producers and business affairs managers, providing support and supervision to post producers both in the office and across the network. The Executive Producer will maintain senior-level contact with agency creatives and client engagement. While local projects will be the primary focus, the EP will collaborate across offices as needed and report directly to the Head of Post Production.

The Executive Producer should solve problems in a timely and cost-effective manner while managing multiple projects simultaneously. Familiarity with the dynamics of an agency and knowledge of how to engage with alignment teams across the Americas is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Provide post production partnership during the creative development phase, offering insights on craft and feasibility while recommending execution strategies around talent.
• Ensure each project aligns with the brief and adheres to format and asset scaling from development through post production.
• Educate and socialize best practices and processes within Monks to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
• Collaborate with accounts to manage intake processes for new briefs or project kickoffs, staffing senior and mid-level post producer support as needed.
• Participate in creative work sessions with internal teams to manage production during development, facilitating weekly status meetings to support creative delivery within budget.
• Connect craft partners within Monks, overseeing all post production departments to ensure talent selection and availability align with project needs.
• Manage and develop pre-bid processes, including timelines, rough costs, and incorporating creative input from internal teams.
• In partnership with Integrated Production, oversee the treatment phase, bid process, and package preparation following pre-bid approval.
• Collaborate with business affairs to create project estimates and ensure all approvals are in place.
• Partner with finance to onboard new vendors, issue deal memos, and ensure timely vendor payments.
• Work with business affairs on talent and asset management.
• Lead key areas of project management during shoots and oversee the local post production team, guiding agency and client through approvals.
• Ensure the quality of work meets agency and Monks standards and client objectives.
• Provide account leadership from a post production perspective, overseeing all productions per agency relationship from start to finish.
• Develop executive-level relationships with internal teams to foster collaboration and streamline processes.
• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of post producers, providing clear career paths within our hybrid agency/production model.
• Oversee project wrap-ups with post producers, business affairs, and finance for reconciliation.
• Track diversity and inclusion initiatives across all productions, ensuring representation in front of and behind the lens, as well as in post-production talent.
• Create and refine post production processes that align with Monks' agency model, implementing improvements based on monthly feedback from clients and agencies.
• Produce innovative and meaningful work at the highest craft levels, integrating AI and emerging technologies to enhance production quality while respecting traditional workflows.

About You
The essentials:

• Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of multitasking in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and critical thinking skills.
• Stress-tolerant, quick-thinking, and accurate in execution.
• Ability to quickly grasp new technology concepts, particularly in AI and innovation.
• Strong interpersonal skills as both a team leader and collaborator.
• Flexibility, initiative, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Willingness to travel.
• A sense of humor, outgoing personality, and confidence, combined with common sense.
• A skilled, creative, and confident presenter and negotiator.

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws.
This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company's then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate's sex or any other protected status.
Salary Range$110,000—$140,000 CAD

About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry's best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world's trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek's Fastest Growing lists , ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year In addition to being named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year , won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.