SENIOR PRODUCER
SENIOR PRODUCER, LONDON
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Hours: 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid, with 3 days a week at our Hoxton studio
Salary: Dependent on experience
Start date: As soon as possible
Must already hold the right to work in the UK.
Golden Wolf is a creative agency specialising in wolf class animation with teams in London and New York, part of the Psyop Group alongside Psyop and our sister music and sound studio, Take Your Medicine. We make character-driven 2D animation, mixed media, motion design and live action for brands, agencies and entertainment clients around the world, and our London production team runs projects for all of them.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Producer to join our London production team, reporting to the Director of Production. You will own commercial animation projects from the first bid to final delivery: assessing briefs with our creative leads, building budgets and schedules, crewing the right team, managing clients and vendors, and delivering the work on time and on budget. You will usually have several projects running at once, from character spots to multi-market toolkits.
You will be the day-to-day contact for clients on your projects, working with the Director or Production and Executive Producers on the wider relationship. Beyond the projects themselves, you will help improve how the studio is run: from how we set up, resource, and track productions to growing our freelance network and mentoring the producers and coordinators around you. Our producers work across the Psyop Group, so you will also collaborate with Psyop and Take Your Medicine on shared jobs.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Bidding and budgets
● Assess briefs with creative leads, define the production approach and assemble the right team for each job.
● Build clear, accurate bids, budgets, schedules and production plans for 2D animation, mixed media, motion design and live action projects.
● Own the budget through production: track spend, protect the margin and flag changes in scope early.
Running productions
● Run productions from award to final delivery, including complex jobs with high volumes of assets, versions and deliverables across formats, markets and deadlines.
● Keep schedules and task tracking current, so teams are properly briefed and working to realistic deadlines.
● Manage the flow of assets, information and feedback between clients, creative leads, artists, vendors and production.
● Spot production risks early and work with the wider team to resolve them.
Clients and partners
● Be the day-to-day contact for clients on your projects, communicating clearly on progress, feedback and problems.
● Manage external partners and specialist vendors across 2D animation, VFX, grade, voiceover, casting, live action, music and sound, fitting their schedules and deliverables into the wider production.
People and studio
● Staff and resource projects with our internal team and freelance talent, and set crews up with the information, access and tools they need from day one.
● Build and maintain relationships with artists, animators and freelancers, with an eye for new talent.
● Mentor junior producers and production coordinators.
● Work with our production and technical leads to improve workflows, project setup and processes as the work we take on evolves.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
● 5+ years producing animation, motion design, post-production or related creative work, including time as the lead producer on a project.
● Strong experience bidding and producing 2D animation, mixed media and motion graphics projects.
● A track record on complex productions with large numbers of assets and deliverables.
● Experience managing external production partners and specialist vendors.
● Confident building a budget, schedule and production approach from a brief, with a good grasp of margins and production economics.
● Comfortable working directly with clients and senior creative teams, and clear in writing and in person.
● Highly organised, practical and calm when things change.
● Collaborative, curious, and comfortable working with diverse personalities and disciplines.
● At home in production and scheduling tools and interested in using AI tools to work smarter on the business side of production, from bidding to scheduling and reporting.
● Good knowledge of artists, animators and creative talent, or a real interest in building this side of the role.
● Experience across live action, experiential or emerging production formats is a bonus, not a requirement.
WHAT WE OFFER
● 21 days’ holiday a year plus bank holidays, and the studio closes from Christmas Eve through to the New Year’s Day on top of that.
● 2 personal days and 1 studio holiday a year.
● Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
● Workplace pension through NEST.
● A yearly performance review with regular check-ins, and one-to-one mentoring.
● Breakfast and snacks in the studio.
● Team socials and seasonal parties.
● Opportunities to attend and present at industry and networking events.
HOW TO APPLY
Send your CV and a short note on two or three productions you are proudest of, and what you did on them, to [email protected] with “Senior Producer” in the subject line. Applications close on Friday 6th November We will be considering applicants before then, so please do not wait until the deadline.
Golden Wolf is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone, and we will make adjustments at any stage of the process if you need them.