Creative Production Lead

The Community You Will Join: 

Airbnb is looking for a Creative Production Lead to join Airbnb Creative, our internal, multi-disciplinary team of creatives. We are a global team, connected to every department in the company and outside agencies and creatives. Together with these partners, we develop concrete, creative solutions to answer sometimes vague or ambiguous problems.

The Difference You Will Make:

Creative Production Leads manage complex, multidisciplinary projects across all mediums. They organize teams, plan requirements with internal team members, and lead projects through the entire project lifecycle. They are passionate about creating work at the highest level of craftsmanship and are known for making meaningful contributions to the creative process. They are highly organized, known for creating processes that ensure projects run successfully, and strongly understand which external vendors are doing the best work in the industry. Creative Production Leads report to the Executive Producer and are part of the Marketing organization at Airbnb. This role will oversee and produce work streams related to the launch of new products. 

A Typical Day: 

• Produce complex creative projects from creative concepting through production and delivery. 
• Organize your team, document and create a production plan, and lead your projects through the entire project lifecycle.
• Work with the Executive Producer and Head of Production to create and review schedules and budgets. 
• Coordinate with everyone on the project's progress and deadlines, which may span different time zones and hemispheres. Communicate any risks to EP and HOP.
• Advocate for the highest level of craft across all outputs. 
• Find, source, and manage diverse production partners to support the work.
• Educate stakeholders and agencies on processes and guidelines for projects.
• Manage and prioritize feedback from stakeholders as projects develop.
• Work in partnership with creatives, producers, program managers, product design stakeholders, legal and other XFN partners to drive projects to completion.
• Look for ways to up-level our processes and strive to improve them. 
• Enable creatives with the tools and resources to do their best work by establishing/managing schedules, budgets, and partners.
• Ensure a highly organized workflow that shows operational excellence at every stage of the project.
• Plan and execute Integrated Productions (e.g., film/video, social, design, illustration, animation, product demos, etc.). 
• Advocate diversity, equity, and inclusion across work, internal teams, and external partners.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years as an Integrated creative producer, for an embedded agency and/or internal marketing or design team; a blend of agency and internal brand marketing team experience preferred.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale, multi-platform experiences, campaigns, and productions and various outbound marketing mediums. 
• Experience creating animated assets, working with illustrators, motion graphics, live action, demo films and digital projects. 
• Experience delivering assets for various channels: social, digital and web.
• Figma experience strongly preferred.
• Cross-team knowledge of Business Affairs, Copywriting, Art Direction and Design. 
• Deeply capable with production planning, scenario planning, budget forecasting, resourcing and actualization. 
• Leading edge understanding of integrated production.
• Expertise with production process and terminology.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity and be flexible to work West coast hours as needed. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.