Production Coordinator for React Media

About REACT

React Media is a pioneering multi-platform media company creating authentic, culturally impactful content to a massive millennial + Gen Z audience and highly engaged community of over 67 million unique people monthly. Based in Burbank, CA, React Media’s award-winning studio creates widely popular short-form and long-form video programming that generate over 300 million views per month. Our legacy digital brands include REACT, REPLAY, People Vs. Food, and Try Not To with new verticals slated to launch in 2021.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a hard-working team member, ready to jump into a busy, multimedia studio. They should be able to thrive in our fast-paced production studio, tackling quick turnarounds and multiple productions simultaneously while ensuring the teams are hitting deadlines with high performance and quality. This is an excellent opportunity to learn the growing digital media landscape and is perfect for someone who wants to build a career in physical production and digital media.

Key Responsibilities

• Onboarding all freelance cast and crew and post members for both accounting and production, including managing all start paperwork and timecards in collaboration with accounting.
• Filling out all crew timecards for production and post freelance crew and tracking with employee hours on a weekly basis.
• General support and assistance for the Director of Production and the Production Manager including scheduling events and meetings.
• Tracking and coding Production expenses on Production Department cards.
• Review and execution of purchase requests and production materials.
• Track all expenses for the team.
• Maintain effective and proactive department-wide communication.
• Assisting the Director of Production in reconciling budgets on a bi-weekly basis to ensure we are staying on budget for each shoot.
• Maintain excellent relationships with vendors and outside resources.
• Handling recruiting postings for freelance crew through Mandy and Staff Me Up, conducting initial interviews and staffing outreach
• Assist the Creative Director, Producers, and Director of Production in order to complete all physical aspects of production.
• Assists the PM in directing the Production Assistants to conduct runs, assist in the studios, and ensure the offices are clean and organized before and after filming when needed.
• Maintain workflow for the Production department.
• Handle any permits or other filming contracts as needed.
• Order COVID tests and ensure supply is ready for filming.
• Generate account opening documents and COIs for any new vendors.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Greenslate payroll software is a plus.
• Proficiency in Google Workplace is a must.
• Must be an excellent communicator who is comfortable cold calling new freelancers.
• On set experience is preferred.
• Organized and detail oriented.

React Media’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We are creatives on a mission to examine and celebrate global culture through colorful, fresh perspectives and honest human stories.

React Media is a pioneering multiplatform media company creating authentic, culturally impactful content to a massive millennial + Gen Z audience and highly engaged community of reaching over 67 million unique people monthly. Based in Burbank, CA, React Media’s award-winning studio creates widely popular short-form and long-form video programming formats that generate over 300 million views per month. Our legacy brands include:

REACT — Entertainment, Pop and Internet Culture & Human Reaction
PEOPLE VS FOOD — Humans + Food, Food & More Food!
[COMING SOON] — Science, Education & Exploration

A media company, production company, and new breed of TV network, React Media creates innovative and entertaining programming for a global audience across both owned and operated and partner channels.

React Media creates original content across multiple genres: scripted, non-scripted, animated, sketch, interactive, branded entertainment, VR, along with their well-known React shows, which helped define an entire genre of online video.

As a production company, it has created and produced shows for television networks and premium SVODs including TruTV, Nickelodeon, Freeform, YouTube Premium and Facebook Watch, as well as always having several shows sold into development to major digital and traditional networks including feature film “F The Prom”​ that is available on Netflix. The company has a constant flow of partnerships on shows being developed for television and original branded content.