Head of Brand Production Studio, Brand Marketing

Head Of Brand Production Studio, Brand Marketing

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we'll build together.

We're a tight-knit, collaborative group on a mission to make Thumbtack famous. The Thumbtack brand marketing team exists to reimagine brand building, using modern marketing tools to drive preference and brand recognition. We are tasked with creating a category-defining, differentiated brand and bringing it to life consistently across multiple media touchpoints to drive brand recognition and commercial success.

The Head of Brand Production Studio will act as a key lever for scaling Creative Production across the entire Thumbtack organization. You will be responsible for proposing and implementing strong processes and tooling to organize a wide range of brand team workstreams and ensure a standardized and strategic operational model.

The ideal candidate is hungry to build teams from ground zero and implement systems that allow creativity to thrive, and upholds an exceptionally high bar for craft while meeting the high volume and variable demands across the company. They are uniquely activated by the art of solving complex challenges that balance ruthless pragmatism with ingenuity and innovation. They understand the major impact that efficient practices have on delivering excellent work that drives our brand forward.

This role will report to the Head of Production.

What you'll do

• Manage a team of production designers, video editors and project managers who will collaborate closely with the US based team(s).
• Lead teamwide operational excellence and hygienic practices through efficient use of resources, tooling, and brand team processes.
• Drive the vision, procurement, and implementation of key creative tooling and systems management. Continuously monitoring industry trends, tools, and technologies to foster innovation and efficiency.
• Own teamwide project intake, trafficking and resource management / allocation.
• Organize regular reporting on brand team project statuses and qualitative data to inform long term strategic decision making.
• Identify gaps and support the visioning of key team processes and operations, ultimately evangelizing those standards across the company to drive adoption and consistency.
• Draft and manage project plans and expectations, ensuring error-free, on-brief, on-time, legally compliant, and on-budget results.
• Collaborate with the Creative, Production and Brand Management teams to effectively resource creative needs, properly scope projects and create workback schedules.

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