Sr. Producer

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Company Background:

Gilt Groupe provides invitation-only access to high-end fashion and luxury brands at highly discounted prices. The company currently works with a roster of nearly 400 up-and-coming and established brands in the women's, men's, children's, beauty, and home fashion categories.

Gilt Groupe was founded by an experienced team with proven track records at successful luxury fashion companies. Gilt Groupe is a fully funded company and is currently based in the vibrant Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

Job Description:

The Senior Producer will establish, and manage several external vendor relationships.  This role should possess excellent project management, negotiation, and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work well in teams.  The Producer will indirectly manage on-set photo shoot team people and ensure smooth day-to-day photography operations and  will work closely with internal teams including Web Production, Marketing, Merchandising, and Creative to achieve on-brand, on-budget, and on-time photography.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Partner with Creative, Marketing, Merchandising and Production teams to set  photography goals in order to deliver on business needs
•    Manage dozens of vendor relationships including contract negotiations for volume discounts
•    Management of Production budget
•    Oversee day-to-day photography operations with photography studio, image re-touching vendor, and internal teams
•    Manage overall operations of in-house photo studio
•    Source talent, manage castings, and bookings, negotiate usage and costs across models, photographers, hair and make-up artists, and studio
•    Oversee post-production timelines and costs

Education / Experience:

•    Bachelor's degree
•    Minimum 7 years experience in photo shoot production and art buying and/or project management (e-commerce and fashion retail experience preferred)
•    Experience managing direct reports and teams
•    Experience with budgeting and vendor relationships
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•    Ability to work well to meet deadlines in fast-paced environment
•    Highly organized and ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities
•    Strong project management skills
•    Strong negotiation skills

If interested, please send your resume to [email protected]