About the role
A senior delivery lead who brings together project management and integrated production while building strong client relationships - protecting creative integrity as teams, timelines, and deliverables come together.
You build trusted relationships with our clients, partners and suppliers, working in lockstep to deliver high-quality outcomes that reflect both creative ambition and operational discipline. This role balances hands-on execution with oversight — supporting cross-functional team members, maintaining workflow efficiency and protecting the integrity of the work along the way.
You’re not just managing tasks. You’re managing relationships, alignment, quality and client confidence. You’ll also help refine studio processes, helping us work smarter as we continue to grow.
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Jacknife is looking for an Integrated Producer to join our Account Team. Your strength lies in bringing those ideas to life through smart, structured leadership in production and execution. You’re a strategic thinker with a deep appreciation for branding, design systems and visual storytelling.
With 6–8 years of experience in a fast-moving agency environment, you’re comfortable leading projects end-to-end—presenting confidently to clients, navigating complexity, and guiding teams from brief through delivery.
As the client-facing lead for a large anchor account, you build strong, trusted relationships grounded in a clear understanding of business priorities. You anticipate needs, identify risks early, and connect internal teams around smart, strategic work that moves the client’s business forward.
On any given day, you may be leading the day-to-day client relationship, aligning creative and strategy, solving production challenges, or mentoring junior team members to keep projects moving. You collaborate closely with creative directors, writers, strategists, and external partners to bring bold ideas to life across brand identity, digital, video, packaging, content, social, environmental, and experiential work.
You understand that great design isn’t decoration; it solves problems, creates clarity and builds business value. And you know how to keep projects on track without losing the thread of the idea.
Fit matters to us. You’re solution-focused and easy to work with. Confident without ego. Organized without rigidity. Efficient without cutting corners. You care about doing great work with great people.
We’re fun to work with. You are, too.
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At Jacknife, we proudly uphold a commitment to equality and fairness. We stand firmly against any form of discrimination, respecting the rights and dignity of every individual, regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation – in compliance with all relevant federal, provincial, and local laws. Our dedication extends to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment for all. Should you be invited for an interview and need accommodations, please don’t hesitate to inform us. Your comfort is important to us.
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Roles & Responsibilities
- Act as the day-to-day client-facing project manager and production lead on assigned projects, driving projects from brief to final delivery with clarity and control.
- Serve as the client-facing lead for a large anchor account, building trusted relationships by deeply understanding business priorities, anticipating needs, opportunities, and proactively identifying risks.
- Develop creative briefs that align Creative, Strategy and partners around clear objectives and scope.
- Draft Statements of Work, production scopes and budgets that balance creative ambition with commercial reality.
- Build and manage production schedules grounded in workflows, logistical plans, approval gates, cross-functional dependencies, and post-production (animation, VFX, compositing, colour grading, AI, and more).
- Monitor project financials closely; track burn, flag scope creep, and protect profitability.
- Reconcile dockets and contribute to profitability discussions with Finance and Senior
- Leadership.
- Lead clear, consistent communication across client, studio and partner teams to maintain alignment and momentum.
- Manage structured approval processes within matrixed client environments to prevent bottlenecks.
- Ensure projects adhere to client governance and compliance protocols, and to structured approval processes where required.
- Oversee and actively cultivate relationships with production partners and vendors, identifying the right collaborators for each project, negotiating effectively and maintaining a high-performance external network.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously without compromising quality.
- Contribute to studio culture by mentoring junior team members and improving workflows where needed.
Qualifications
- 6–8+ years of integrated production and project management experience, with a proven ability to operate with high ownership, adaptability, and strong cross-functional collaboration. Experience in fast-moving, small to mid-sized agency environments is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience independently owning client relationships and driving projects from brief to final delivery.
- Proven experience leading multi-channel projects across video, digital, motion, content, packaging, environmental design, experiential and internal event assets.
- Strong understanding of video production workflows, including pre-production, on-set operations, post-production and cross-platform versioning.
- Demonstrated ability to manage integrated project timelines with complex cross-functional and production dependencies.
- Experience navigating matrixed client organizations with multiple stakeholder groups and approval layers.
- Strong budget management skills, with a clear understanding of where production costs accumulate across video, digital, environmental and activation scopes.
- Ability to draft scopes of work, build detailed production schedules and track financial performance against estimates.
- High attention to detail, strong organizational discipline and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects without losing momentum.
- Confident client-facing presence, with experience presenting production plans, timelines, and budgets.
- Experience managing and cultivating strong professional relationships with external production partners, including directors, editors, motion teams, fabricators, AV vendors, printers and installation crews.
Asset
- Experience producing internal corporate events assets.
- Experience managing paid media versioning and integrated asset rollout across
- channels.
- Comfort working with project management tools (Function Point, Basecamp, Adobe Workfront)
- Exposure to emerging production tools or AI-assisted workflows.
- Experience in resource management.
- Experience with financial services brands is an asset.
About Jacknife
Jacknife is a diverse team of creative problem solvers, built to meet the challenges of modern business.
Design is not something we do for a living, it’s something we live doing.
Championing the process of design thinking is how we create and renovate brands, develop innovative products or experiences, and ultimately effect positive change. We’ve learned through experience that you simply cannot understand a brand, the people who buy into it, and the market in which it exists without adopting a truly holistic mindset. Our ability to come at a project from every angle, every perspective… this is where we excel.
We’ve confidently turned our hands to a broad spectrum of creative assignments across virtually every sector you can think of. And along the way we’ve had the good fortune to meet and work with some really terrific people.
Our best work is the product of collaborating with clients who share our passion for great design. We believe, and our clients know that our work delivers better business results.
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About the role
A senior delivery lead who brings together project management and integrated production while building strong client relationships - protecting creative integrity as teams, timelines, and deliverables come together.
You build trusted relationships with our clients, partners and suppliers, working in lockstep to deliver high-quality outcomes that reflect both creative ambition and operational discipline. This role balances hands-on execution with oversight — supporting cross-functional team members, maintaining workflow efficiency and protecting the integrity of the work along the way.
You’re not just managing tasks. You’re managing relationships, alignment, quality and client confidence. You’ll also help refine studio processes, helping us work smarter as we continue to grow.
_____
Jacknife is looking for an Integrated Producer to join our Account Team. Your strength lies in bringing those ideas to life through smart, structured leadership in production and execution. You’re a strategic thinker with a deep appreciation for branding, design systems and visual storytelling.
With 6–8 years of experience in a fast-moving agency environment, you’re comfortable leading projects end-to-end—presenting confidently to clients, navigating complexity, and guiding teams from brief through delivery.
As the client-facing lead for a large anchor account, you build strong, trusted relationships grounded in a clear understanding of business priorities. You anticipate needs, identify risks early, and connect internal teams around smart, strategic work that moves the client’s business forward.
On any given day, you may be leading the day-to-day client relationship, aligning creative and strategy, solving production challenges, or mentoring junior team members to keep projects moving. You collaborate closely with creative directors, writers, strategists, and external partners to bring bold ideas to life across brand identity, digital, video, packaging, content, social, environmental, and experiential work.
You understand that great design isn’t decoration; it solves problems, creates clarity and builds business value. And you know how to keep projects on track without losing the thread of the idea.
Fit matters to us. You’re solution-focused and easy to work with. Confident without ego. Organized without rigidity. Efficient without cutting corners. You care about doing great work with great people.
We’re fun to work with. You are, too.
_____
At Jacknife, we proudly uphold a commitment to equality and fairness. We stand firmly against any form of discrimination, respecting the rights and dignity of every individual, regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation – in compliance with all relevant federal, provincial, and local laws. Our dedication extends to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment for all. Should you be invited for an interview and need accommodations, please don’t hesitate to inform us. Your comfort is important to us.
_____
Roles & Responsibilities
- Act as the day-to-day client-facing project manager and production lead on assigned projects, driving projects from brief to final delivery with clarity and control.
- Serve as the client-facing lead for a large anchor account, building trusted relationships by deeply understanding business priorities, anticipating needs, opportunities, and proactively identifying risks.
- Develop creative briefs that align Creative, Strategy and partners around clear objectives and scope.
- Draft Statements of Work, production scopes and budgets that balance creative ambition with commercial reality.
- Build and manage production schedules grounded in workflows, logistical plans, approval gates, cross-functional dependencies, and post-production (animation, VFX, compositing, colour grading, AI, and more).
- Monitor project financials closely; track burn, flag scope creep, and protect profitability.
- Reconcile dockets and contribute to profitability discussions with Finance and Senior
- Leadership.
- Lead clear, consistent communication across client, studio and partner teams to maintain alignment and momentum.
- Manage structured approval processes within matrixed client environments to prevent bottlenecks.
- Ensure projects adhere to client governance and compliance protocols, and to structured approval processes where required.
- Oversee and actively cultivate relationships with production partners and vendors, identifying the right collaborators for each project, negotiating effectively and maintaining a high-performance external network.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously without compromising quality.
- Contribute to studio culture by mentoring junior team members and improving workflows where needed.
Qualifications
- 6–8+ years of integrated production and project management experience, with a proven ability to operate with high ownership, adaptability, and strong cross-functional collaboration. Experience in fast-moving, small to mid-sized agency environments is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience independently owning client relationships and driving projects from brief to final delivery.
- Proven experience leading multi-channel projects across video, digital, motion, content, packaging, environmental design, experiential and internal event assets.
- Strong understanding of video production workflows, including pre-production, on-set operations, post-production and cross-platform versioning.
- Demonstrated ability to manage integrated project timelines with complex cross-functional and production dependencies.
- Experience navigating matrixed client organizations with multiple stakeholder groups and approval layers.
- Strong budget management skills, with a clear understanding of where production costs accumulate across video, digital, environmental and activation scopes.
- Ability to draft scopes of work, build detailed production schedules and track financial performance against estimates.
- High attention to detail, strong organizational discipline and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects without losing momentum.
- Confident client-facing presence, with experience presenting production plans, timelines, and budgets.
- Experience managing and cultivating strong professional relationships with external production partners, including directors, editors, motion teams, fabricators, AV vendors, printers and installation crews.
Asset
- Experience producing internal corporate events assets.
- Experience managing paid media versioning and integrated asset rollout across
- channels.
- Comfort working with project management tools (Function Point, Basecamp, Adobe Workfront)
- Exposure to emerging production tools or AI-assisted workflows.
- Experience in resource management.
- Experience with financial services brands is an asset.
About Jacknife
Jacknife is a diverse team of creative problem solvers, built to meet the challenges of modern business.
Design is not something we do for a living, it’s something we live doing.
Championing the process of design thinking is how we create and renovate brands, develop innovative products or experiences, and ultimately effect positive change. We’ve learned through experience that you simply cannot understand a brand, the people who buy into it, and the market in which it exists without adopting a truly holistic mindset. Our ability to come at a project from every angle, every perspective… this is where we excel.
We’ve confidently turned our hands to a broad spectrum of creative assignments across virtually every sector you can think of. And along the way we’ve had the good fortune to meet and work with some really terrific people.
Our best work is the product of collaborating with clients who share our passion for great design. We believe, and our clients know that our work delivers better business results.