Senior Manager, Brand Production - Temporary

Department: Brand Marketing

Reports to: Director, Brand Operations

Location: Vancouver, B.C.

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

The Senior Manager, Brand Production oversees video and film production operations, ensuring the successful execution of branded content capture and priorities. This senior role is significant in terms of the size and scale of budgets, projects, and team members. You will lead a high-performing team of some who are continually in-the-field and others who work within office and editing suites. You will coordinate across creative leadership, optimizing resources, budgets, schedules, and workflows. This position requires a strong understanding of all aspects of the work while actively managing people, challenges, and communications throughout work cycles.

The upstream demands, includes participation in GTM strategies, financial planning, weather-related adjustments, and a forward-looking budget advisory role, necessitates senior-level oversight to manage these complexities. You will be a key player in setting long-term strategies, proactively identifying and addressing challenges, and ensuring seamless execution of large-scale projects.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to a hybrid work schedule.

Please note that this is a temporary role ending in April 2026.

Meet Your Future Team:

The Brand Operations team includes producers, design managers, and project managers who define and refine processes, managing the end-to-end production of e-commerce content, brand, and product campaigns. You will collaborate closely with our Brand Creative teams to create best-in-class photo and video content for our global channels. You are a key stakeholder in marketing calendar planning, adjustments and responsible budgeting practices

If you were in the Senior Manager, Brand Production role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Leading a high-performing, cross-functional team of in-house producers, contractors, and agencies, driving productivity, efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness across large-scale production operations
• Overseeing and coordinating the scaling of production efforts, with a focus on managing larger budgets and more complex projects across multiple regions (NAM, EMEA)
• Managing the integration of creative leadership inputs, ensuring alignment and communication across various stakeholders and maintaining high standards throughout the production process
• Engaging in upstream planning, including strategic participation in GTM processes, financial planning, and adjusting for weather-related challenges, while ensuring alignment with broader company objectives
• Developing and managing multi-tiered budgets for various projects, forecasting and adjusting as needed to accommodate shifting priorities, such as weather-related factors and regional requests
• Leading the oversight of multiple streams of work (Evergreen, Direct and Narrative Production, Experiences, All Post-Production, Arc’teryx Presents), ensuring proper resourcing, timelines, and budgeting for global and regional projects
• Coordinating approval channels and managing communication across teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure timely execution and resolution of any challenges
• Collaborating with creative leads to co-author proposals for new work with vendors and partners, reviewing contracts, NDAs, scopes of work, and master service agreements
• Managing external production partners, ensuring they adhere to brand standards and providing direction as needed to ensure alignment with creative and technical expectations
• Monitoring the progress of all production projects, helping resolve issues, proposing solutions, and escalating as needed to keep projects on track
• Overseeing post-production teams, ensuring that all outputs meet both creative and technical standards
• Evolving creative workflows, ensuring RACI (responsibility, accountability, consultation, and information) structures are effective, and managing stakeholder engagement for production activities
• Ensuring budgetary oversight for all production operations, looking one year ahead to advise on financial planning, forecasts, and adjustment

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Building, managing, and training external partners, such as production companies, agencies, and freelancers, to execute projects according to brand production standards
• Owning global production operations and maintain effective communication with all regional partners

Are you our next Senior Manager, Brand Production?

• You have 8+ years of experience in photo video production, both on-location and in-studio, and ideally have a Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Production, Marketing or a related field 
• You have a strong knowledge of Arc’teryx products and interest and involvement in activities that Arc’teryx makes products for (climbing, skiing/boarding, trekking and/or outdoor activities)
• You have knowledge of graphic, video, and digital communications production
• You have the ability to travel 10% of your time to accompany your team on larger productions projects
• You have excellent ability to influence without direct control
• You ideally have agency experience and must be comfortable working with creative personalities
• You have strong communication skills including excellent presentation skills
• You have advanced experience using project management and production platforms and tools (Smartsheet, Monday.com or similar)
• You have a relentless attention to detail; ability to prioritize tasks in order to meet deadlines
• You are proficient in budget management, tracking, forecasting and reporting
• You have strong skills in workflow organization and efficiency
• You have excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• You have a positive, can-do attitude with an ability to inspire and lead a project team of varied roles/responsibilities
• You have the ability to plan and oversee work schedules and calendars across various production resources 
• You have the ability to work unsupervised and self-directed
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions      
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity  
• You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement         
• You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right    
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it              

Equal Opportunity

Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance. 

Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.  

All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.

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