AV Creative Production Manager

AV Creative Production Manager

We're seeking an experienced Creative Production Manager to lead the execution and delivery of marketing campaign assets across the Apple TV+ programming slate. In this pivotal role, you'll partner closely with the Creative Director to drive campaign developmentowning timelines, budgets, creative production, and asset tracking from kickoff through final delivery. Your work will empower our creative, marketing, and cross-functional partners to bring campaigns to life at the highest level. As the connector, you keep projects moving, budgets aligned, and deadlines met. A proactive problem-solver and operational strategist with deep post-production expertise, you understand how creative and marketing decisions influence timelines, resources, and the broader campaign strategy. This role calls for a nimble, strategic thinker with a producer's mindsetcomfortable leading in fast-paced, high-volume environments. You bring a strong background in entertainment marketing and a proven ability to manage creative production across diverse deliverables, including trailers, TV spots, social content, digital, paid media, and international formats. You'll be the go-to partner ensuring clarity, alignment, and flawless execution across internal teams and external vendorsdriving both creative excellence and operational efficiency.

You're a seasoned leader in creative productionequal parts strategist, operatorwho thrives at the intersection of creative vision and flawless execution. With a strong creative background and deep operational expertise, you understand the full campaign lifecycle, from early concepting to final delivery, and are adept at steering large-scale marketing initiatives with multiple stakeholders, evolving priorities, and ambitious timelines. You're not just a doer, you're a driver. You anticipate challenges before they surface, bring clarity to complexity, and create alignment across teams. Your communication is direct yet empathetic, your planning is rigorous, and your instincts are trusted by both creative and business leaders. You operate with emotional intelligence, fostering collaboration, building trust, and keeping teams motivated, even in high-stakes, high-volume environments. You're passionate about storytelling and marketing, with a sharp eye for the craft and mechanics that turn big ideas into tangible impact. You balance creative integrity with business realities, guiding teams with empathy, precision, and confidence. Above all, you bring a calm, solutions-oriented mindset and the ability to transform vision into action at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end campaign operations, driving communication between Creative Advertising, Marketing, and cross-functional partners to build and maintain detailed timelines with clear asset requirements and delivery milestones.
• Define and manage campaign budgets, forecast needs, build contingency plans, and align costs with both creative priorities and strategic marketing goals.
• Track production across all marketing touchpoints including trailers, TV spots, social, paid media, digital, international, and broadcast; ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to spec.
• Partner with the Creative and Finishing team to prioritize assets, manage post-production workflows, and ensure alignment with creative and marketing decisions.
• Proactively troubleshoot production and post-production issues, escalating where needed to keep campaigns moving forward.
• Manage vendor and agency relationships from onboarding through invoicing, ensuring seamless day-to-day project management and financial oversight.
• Provide visibility into campaign performance and spending, articulating variances, rationales, and allocation decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Act as a strategic partner to creative leads, supporting campaign strategy with operational excellence, scalable solutions, and production insights.
• Surface key decisions and blockers to senior leadership, ensuring clarity, alignment, and accountability across all teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in creative production, project management, or marketing operations ideally within entertainment, media, or creative agencies.
• Proven expertise in post-production across video, social, digital, paid, and international formats, with a strong understanding of how creative and marketing decisions impact workflow and timelines.
• Advanced proficiency with workflow tools such as Airtable, Excel (or similar platforms), with the ability to design systems that increase visibility and efficiency.
• Proven success leading high-profile campaigns, managing large budgets and tight timelines in fast-paced, high-volume environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage asset lifecycles, from creative development through delivery, while driving clarity and accountability at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders around a shared production and marketing vision.
• Exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to juggle multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Outstanding communication skills, able to clearly present production updates, operational solutions, and budget insights to senior leadership.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,800 and $210,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.