Producer

Company Description

Notch is a Toronto-based production company built for social-first content. Social is our bread and butter, but our work spans creator-led campaigns, documentary storytelling, print, and broadcast productions of every scale. Our culture is simple: all hands on deck. We believe the best ideas come from collaboration, and everyone has a role in making the work stronger. We're a team of makers, problem-solvers, and storytellers who jump in wherever needed to deliver great work and a great experience for our partners. Creative, entrepreneurial, and endlessly curious, we're driven by the challenge of creating content that resonates, performs, and leaves a lasting impression.

Curious? Check out our work, team, and vibe at www.notchvideo.com.

Overview

Tired of the old way of doing things? So are we. We're looking for a Producer who can keep projects moving, people aligned, and productions running smoothly from kickoff to delivery. You build trust quickly, stay calm under pressure, pivot when needed, and bring the confidence to lead everything from lean social shoots to large-scale productions. If you're passionate about the evolving world of social and digital content and love finding smarter ways to work, we'd love to meet you.

Responsibilities

Lead productions of varying scale and complexity, maintaining confidence, professionalism, and control from prep through wrap while managing crews, talent, clients, and stakeholders.

• Actively produce and project manage through development, pre-pro, post-pro and delivery.
• Actively participate in client meetings, brainstorms and presentations.
• Engage production vendors, honour existing relationships and bring your own roster of trusted production professionals to collaborate on client work.
• Build production estimates and track hard costs and variances against each projects budget including communication between internal finance and external vendors.
• Build production schedules and oversee key deadlines in prep, production and post-production including final delivery.
• Manage, share and file assets at each step of the post production process including final delivery.
• Obtain internal approvals as required throughout the creative and production process.
• Present work for team and client approval at all appropriate stages of creative and production.
• Manage and execute administrative tasks associated with assigned productions as well as to support Notch as a business
• Drive continuous growth by developing scalable best practices, optimizing workflows, and integrating AI-powered tools that enhance creativity, collaboration, and operational efficiency.
• Identify client issues and raise awareness with senior managers.
• Embrace the realities of production, including occasional evening and weekend work, as well as travel opportunities required to support client projects, productions, and team initiatives.

Qualifications

Our successful candidate will possess some of the following attributes below. This is just a starting point – if you feel you don’t meet the suggested experience and/or skills, we still encourage you to apply!

• University degree in Broadcast Journalism, Business, Film, Advertising, Communications, Marketing, or other relevant discipline an asset.
• Ideally you have 5-8 years of experience in television, video and/or film production.
• You can confidently lead productions of any size, building trust with clients, crews, talent, and stakeholders while adapting quickly when circumstances change.
• You are an exceptional communicator and relationship-builder who can confidently manage clients, talent, vendors, crews, and internal stakeholders.
• You remain calm under pressure and are able to quickly adapt to changing priorities, client requests, production challenges, short deadlines and evolving project needs.
• You are highly organized and proactive, with the ability to anticipate issues before they become problems and make sound decisions in real time.
• You stay current with social media and cultural trends, progressive production processes and technology and are always learning.
• You bring demonstrated organizational and project management skills along with the ability to think and communicate strategically.
• You have experience collaborating with creative teams on content development, production planning, and execution.
• You have a working knowledge of leading edge online, video, film and broadcasting technology.
• You have experience working with multiple sources of content.
• You have the ability to assess, work and deliver on client needs.
• Bi-lingual in French is considered an asset
• Experience editing is considered an asset

Additional Information

What we’re offering:

• Meaningful work where you can have a direct impact working on some of the biggest brands out there!
• A culture of entrepreneurship, creativity, out of the box thinking, growth and collaboration
• A focused commitment to career development and personal success – let us help you
• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package including substantial time off policies (like really. It’s a big deal)
• Oh, and did we mention the perks?! Parental leave top-up program; regular social events; teams and clubs; wellness and learning allowance just to name a few #workperks
• All staff meetings so you’re always in the know

Salary

Transparency matters to us. The salary range for this position is CAD$70K-$80K per year. Actual compensation within this range will be based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and applicable certifications. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on current market data.

AI Use

We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications or analyzing resumes. These tools assist our recruitment team but never replace human decision-making. We believe in a human-first approach, where your experience and potential are recognized by people.

To apply for this position, click 'Apply' and easily submit your resume. Note that only those being considered for an interview will be contacted. Thank you very much for your interest in working at Notch. We look forward to meeting you!

Notch Video is committed workplace diversity and will provide accommodation to applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process.