As a Screen Automation Producer, you will oversee and ensure the successful delivery of the work produced by the Screen Automation Producer team in close collaboration with Apple leads. You will be responsible for delivering localized screen imagery to Geo Content Producers for validation, while maintaining consistency and accuracy of localized UI across product imagery for the entire Marcom studio. You’ll partner with Screen and Image Producers to manage and coordinate the work across all functions, balancing production capacity and scope control. Additionally, you will work closely with Apple stakeholders and internal teams to drive high-quality results, ensuring deadlines are met for localized screens in all supported languages and continuously advancing screen automation processes across the organization.
The ideal candidate is self-motivated, flexible, and highly collaborative. Strong analytical, problem solving, and negotiation skills are required. They should be highly skilled in production and interested in new, innovative approaches.
Key Responsibilities:
- A firm understanding of the creative process and the nuances of image creation in order to accurately evaluate timelines as scoped by internal and external partners
- Sync priorities and timelines across Creative Development, Print, Motion Production, HI, and Interactive
- The skills to learn and cope with rapid change and ambiguity, be able to move forward without knowing all the pieces, all while maintaining a superb attention to detail
- Be able to prioritize and meet deadlines while juggling many projects at once
- Track image production status and provide weekly/daily status updates
- Accountable for risk management and formal route to escalation
- Receive, compile, confirm accuracy, and distribute pertinent project information to appropriate
parties - Communicate effectively with Creative and Production Vendor teams
- Keep current with emerging technologies while constantly evolving the process for efficiencies
- Strong project management skills
- Good judgement with an aptitude to manage projects through diplomacy
- Capacity to exercise independent discretion and work autonomously
- Strategic thinker with the ability to identify and socialize sound solutions which consider objectives and implications
- Strong communication - written, presentation, and social skills
- Proven ability to build relationships cross-functionally, influence others, and work effectively within a large organization
- Experienced with guiding and shaping the production process across a variety of media
- Oversee and ensure the successful delivery of the work produced by the Screen Automation Producer team, collaborating closely with Apple leads to ensure alignment and excellence in output
- Partner with Screen Automation Producers to cover and coordinate screen automation work across all functions, ensuring seamless execution across teams
- Develop and maintain deep expertise in product-specific UI knowledge, acting as a senior point of reference for the team
- Collaborate with Image Content Producers, Content Automation teams, and other cross-functional partners to drive the timely and efficient execution of all screen automation needs
- Advocate for the adoption of automation processes, identifying and proposing new solutions to meet the evolving needs of various functional teams
- Work closely with Screen TDM team to prioritize and meet daily screen automation needs, including grabs and loc-strings, to ensure production deadlines are met
- Provide expert guidance on imagery requirements for functional teams, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to approval processes
- Serve as a mentor and leader within a flat organizational structure, guiding Technicians, Producers, and Production teams to success
- Maintain a proactive, problem-solving approach to project management, with an openness to innovation and new ways of working
- Track Screens Automation production data by working closely with Content Subject Matter Expert
Experience:
- 7+ years as a Producer, in an agency or in-house corporate creative production environment
- 6+ years working in localization production
- Experience with automation implementation within production environments
Additional Design Systems Responsibilities and Technical Requirements:
- Own the briefing and tracking of all localization needs for all functional teams
- Build close relationships with the HI team to learn all aspects of the software
- Support the day-to-day screen localization process, including tracking, quality assurance, course correction, and delivery
- Use your in-depth knowledge to both demonstrate new software features to partners within Marcom and to contribute user interface guidance to the Marcom studios around the world
- Provide guidance for the imagery requested by functional teams specific to each project as well as on accuracy and/or approval routes
