Senior Producer
DraftKings is a leading sports entertainment brand that creates the most exciting digital sports competitions and experiences on the planet. Our goal is to transform the way fans experience sports.
We are in search of a Senior Producer to join our Media team to help guide complex projects across platforms and applications. The ideal candidate will be passionate about project management, executing programs to schedule, scope, budget and specification.
The Senior Producer will be responsible for managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders across the company to plan, track, manage, and drive all steps in the product lifecycle. They will be responsible for simultaneously delivering software development projects—many of which are complex in nature—ensuring adherence to deadlines and budget.
Core Responsibilities
- Implement proven and innovative project management solutions to plan and manage projects
- Manage and track the planning, design, approval, and production processes
- Lead communication of timelines, status updates and potential risks to the project team
- Ability to assess, resource and budget projects from creative briefings
- Extract accurate, actionable detail from high-level strategic plans
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal workstreams across functions
- Manage expectations internally and externally regarding schedules, resourcing and budgets
- Practice critical thinking in navigating cross-functional processes and risk resolution
- Ensure that executions launch on-time, deliver to expectation, within scope, and on budget
- Plan and manage resourcing for internal creative team of designers and copywriters
- Drive post-campaign assessments (post-mortem), troubleshooting project hiccups
- Meaningful and lasting relationship building, company-wide and with our external partners
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree + minimum of 5 years technical project management experience
- Demonstrated experience working in an Agile (Scrum) environment
- An ability and willingness to always be the calmest person in the room
- Impeccably organized with a careful attention to detail
- Fluency in Confluence, JIRA, Google Apps, MS Office
- Empowered self-starter, with excellent time management skills
- Understanding basic creative + production workflows and trafficking projects within a system
- Tenacity in follow-through, owning and guiding projects from infancy to execution
- Experience in managing multiple projects across channels— social, email, video, mobile, and dotcom
- Ability to present and defend ideas to scrupulous, senior level audiences
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Ability and desire to effectively drive change through empathy, and persistence