Monks
Freelance Senior Producer
Sydney. Posted 29 days ago
The role
A Senior Producer / Project Manager will manage the daily flow of rapid-turn editorial and marketing work. This person will translate requests into tasks, timelines, and handoffs while maintaining visibility across priorities and delivery.
What you will do
- Manage projects from intake and briefing through production, review, approval and final delivery.
- Translate incoming requests into clear tasks, owners, timelines, dependencies and next steps.
- Maintain project trackers, production schedules, status reports and delivery documentation.
- Traffic work across design, motion, editorial, technical and client teams.
- Prioritize requests based on urgency, complexity, available capacity and business need.
- Confirm that briefs, source materials, specifications and required approvals are in place before production begins.
- Coordinate handoffs across locations and shifts.
- Consolidate feedback and recommend practical resolution paths.
- Conduct producer-level QA for completeness, accuracy, specifications, naming conventions, version control and alignment with the approved brief.
- Ensure final assets are packaged, documented and delivered through the appropriate channels.
Required qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in creative production, program management or project management within an agency, technology company or in-house creative organization.
- Experience managing rapid-turn digital, web, editorial, design and motion deliverables.
- Strong task-management, trafficking and production-planning skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and a strong eye for creative and technical QA.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, make informed decisions and navigate ambiguity.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent priorities across distributed teams.
- Strong understanding of creative workflows, review cycles, asset specifications, version control and delivery requirements.
- Ability to distinguish critical issues from lower-priority feedback and keep work moving.
- Experience working effectively across regions, time zones and distributed teams.
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English is required.
- Clear, concise communication and documentation skills.
Nice to have
- Interest in AI, emerging technology and production innovation.
About the company
Monks is a global, digital-first marketing, technology, and creative consultancy operating at the intersection of creativity, media, data, and culture. In APAC, the 700-strong team spans 14 offices across 11 countries.