Manager, Original Content Production

Tubi · Los Angeles, CA

Posted 8/7/2026 · last confirmed live 8/26/2026

About the Role: As a key member of Tubi’s Original Content team, you will manage production and post-production, maintaining comprehensive workflow oversight over a high-volume slate of projects. Serving as the primary technical and logistical facilitator from development through final delivery, you will ensure all content is executed on time, on budget, and to the highest creative and technical standards. In this role, you will facilitate cross-functional alignment, build budget and timeline frameworks, evaluate production partner capabilities, and maintain production company and vendor relationships. This is a hybrid role based out of our Los Angeles office.   What You'll Do: Production & Post-Production Management Team Management & Mentorship: Support and guide the day-to-day workflows of the production and post-production team, cultivating a collaborative and high-performing environment. End-to-End Lifecycle Ownership: Manage production and post-production pipelines, driving the execution of a fast-paced slate spanning live, scripted, and unscripted formats from greenlight through platform launch. Pre-Production: Standardize and support readiness protocols prior to principal photography, optimizing kick-off frameworks, distribution setups, milestone cash flows, and cast/crew table reads. Technical Quality Control & Troubleshooting: Evaluate and approve complex camera, lens, and technical capture packages during pre-production; actively audit dailies to proactively resolve technical or aesthetic issues before they impact post-production workflows. On-Set Problem Solving & Support: Serve as the primary point of contact for resolving real-time production challenges and supporting crew needs on set. Brand Safety & Compliance: Maintain on-set confidentiality and safety policies, ensuring external partners adhere to social media restrictions and branding guidelines. Integration Partnerships: Coordinate the lifecycle of brand integration opportunities, collaborating with internal leads and on-set producers to secure precise asset capture and client feedback execution. Budget Stewardship & Vendor Management Rigorous Budget Vetting: Review proposed production budgets line-by-line to eliminate excess padding, optimize contingencies, and ensure required delivery items are fully covered to achieve financial efficiency without compromising creative scope. Development & Write-Off Strategy: Track the development budget to monitor committed spend against milestone schedules; coordinate quarterly development and abandonment assessments. Breakage Mitigation: Audit production partner financial statements to identify efficiencies, reallocate resources, and minimize breakage requests. Manage the approval, modeling, and legal amendment process when breakage is unavoidable. Invoice Oversight: Maintain accountability for vetting, approving, and correctly coding all invoices for scripted and unscripted productions, ensuring precise cost-code compliance to drive monthly financial close processes. Partner and Project Vetting: Partner with Creative Execs to evaluate new production partners for their ability to execute on a project, and help vet projects for production viability at the targeted budget. Cross-Functional Alignment & Communications XFN Communications Setup: Maintain and optimize high-priority cross-functional communication channels (Finance, Legal, Creative) to clear dailies, fast-track rush invoices, trigger cashflow milestones, and resolve complex questions under tight deadlines. Liaison: Partner closely with Business & Legal Affairs, Finance, PR, and Creative Executives to align long-term production efforts.  Cross-Team Asset Distribution: Oversee the pipeline ensuring internal Marketing, PR, and internal distribution departments receive all necessary assets and deliverables. Post-Production, Launch & Infrastructure Launch & Post-Production Workflows: Partner closely with post-production lead to track asset pipelines, guarantee adherence to technical specs, and coordinate with technical teams. Database & Workflow Tracking: Maintain the department’s Airtable databases. Tax Incentive Maximization: Actively evaluate, pursue, and track regional tax credits and production incentives while managing relationships with film commissioners. Infrastructure Partnership Cultivation: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with external production companies, soundstages, film offices, animation houses, and VFX partners to keep building a reliable network and scale production capabilities. Your Background: Experience: 5+ years of physical production and post-production management experience at a production company, platform, or entertainment company (extensive experience across live, scripted, and unscripted formats required). On-Set Travel: Willingness and flexibility to travel directly to sets as needed to support physical production. Team Coordination: Demonstrated success coordinating and structuring high-performing production and post-production teams while simultaneously managing multi-project pipelines. Line Producing Background: Significant hands-on, on-set experience as a Line Producer and/or Executive in Charge (EIC) of Physical Production, demonstrating absolute mastery over crew scaling, scheduling, logistics, and day-to-day cost containment. Technical Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of modern cinema cameras, lens packages, and end-to-end post-production workflows (including dailies, color correction, advanced VFX, spatial audio mixing, localization, and technical QC specs), and an openness to mastering new technologies. Labor, Guild & Payroll Compliance: Strong working knowledge of compliance and setup procedures involving all major entertainment unions and guilds (WGA, DGA, IATSE, Teamsters), including coordination of guild payroll and benefit contributions. Software & Systems Acumen: Advanced proficiency with industry-standard budgeting software (Movie Magic or equivalent), relational databases (Airtable) and enterprise networks (Coupa, Graphite). Financial Scale: Proven experience managing and safeguarding multi-million dollar production budgets across varying budget tiers. Core Competencies: Capability to multitask across dozens of rapid-fire projects simultaneously and the agility to pivot priorities instantly. Mindset: A detail-oriented approach to production workflows, paired with an unrelenting passion for content innovation. #LI-SY1 #LI-Hybrid Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. High cost labor markets such as but not limited to Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco $97,400 — $139,200 USD Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized  here , covers the majority of all US employee benefits.  The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits: For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time. For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters. For all full-time, regular employees, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOX’s short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi. For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement. About Tubi: Boldly built for every fandom, Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the world's largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

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