Studio Manager (video/images) | Aquent

Overview

Our shopper, a widely known tech firm, is on the lookout for a Studio Manager to work onsite in Palo Alto.

The Studio Manager oversees and allows the scoping and undertaking execution for all Brand Team video and images initiatives, working intently with photographers/videographers and editors. This position ensures that our video workers have the operational help obligatory to provide high-quality, impactful content material effectively, and that our studio expertise feels ready for his or her studio session and happy with their video/picture undertaking output.
 

Key Responsibilities

Studio and Operations Management (The Physical Space)

• Studio Scheduling: Oversee the bodily and digital reserving calendar for the studio house, making certain environment friendly use and minimizing scheduling conflicts for inside and exterior shoots.

• Equipment Inventory & Asset Procurement: Coordinate with video workers to establish tools wants, doc necessities and make suggestions to Brand management.

• Shoot Support and Hospitality: Warmly greet all scheduled expertise and friends upon arrival, conducting check-in and escorting them to the designated preparation areas. Ensure expertise is checked for make-up and wardrobe. Ensure the expertise understands the section schedule, and has entry to any scripts or notes.

II. Project Management and Production (The Workflow)

• Project Scoping: Define and handle the scope of labor for all incoming picture and video requests, translating artistic briefs into clear undertaking plans with outlined deliverables and acceptance standards.

• Scheduling & Logistics: Develop detailed manufacturing timelines and schedules, script improvement and supply, shoot logistics (location mapping, agenda drafting, journey coordination, supporting vendor briefing); Manage stakeholder communications and preparation.

• Resource Allocation: Assign inside artistic sources (Photographers, Videographers, Editors, Designers, Animators) to initiatives primarily based on bandwidth, talent set, and undertaking precedence.

• Workflow Optimization: Implement and implement standardized undertaking administration methodologies and instruments (Airtable) to make sure initiatives transfer easily from ideation by way of remaining supply and archival. Coordinate with stakeholders to align on expectations

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 3 – 5 years of expertise managing video/picture manufacturing workflows, ideally in a big company or an in-house company studio setting.

• Highly organized and capable of coordinate a number of workflows, advanced manufacturing schedules, crew calendars, and a full roster of initiatives at numerous factors of completion

• Proactive and self-sufficient, with confirmed capacity to develop full plans, craft assembly agendas, drive communications, foresee undertaking blockers, and ship on time towards artistic briefs, all concurrently

• Exceptional communication and negotiation abilities, significantly when managing requesters, artistic schedules, delicate content material, and a number of precedence deadlines

• Basic understanding of video/picture tools and processes.
• Strong familiarity with undertaking administration software program (Airtable)