Reports to: EVP of Production, SPT Nonfiction
Position Overview
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) Nonfiction is seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President of Production to provide strategic leadership and executive oversight across a high-volume portfolio of unscripted programming, including large-scale competition and social experiment formats, game shows, reality, and emerging media produced domestically and internationally.
Reporting to the EVP of Production at SPT Nonfiction, the SVP will oversee the financial, operational, and logistical execution of assigned productions from development budgeting and preproduction through physical production, post-production, and final delivery. This executive will ensure programming meets creative objectives, financial targets, production schedules, and corporate standards while maintaining strong relationships with production company leadership, creative teams, and network and platform partners.
The ideal candidate combines extensive hands-on production experience with sophisticated financial judgment, strategic leadership, and the ability to manage complex production operations within a major global entertainment organization.
Key Responsibilities
Production Strategy & Portfolio Oversight
- Provide executive oversight of multiple concurrent unscripted productions, ensuring alignment with creative objectives, approved budgets, schedules, and divisional business priorities.
- Lead production planning and execution across development, preproduction, principal photography, post-production, and delivery, including complex domestic and international productions and co-productions.
- Partner with production company executives, showrunners, Executive Producers, and creative leadership to evaluate production feasibility, anticipate operational requirements, and develop effective execution strategies.
- Oversee complex production environments, including large-scale competition formats, multicamera productions, studio and location operations, contestant logistics, and specialized technical requirements.
- Serve as a senior escalation resource for production challenges, balancing creative ambitions with financial, operational, contractual, and scheduling considerations.
Financial Management & Operational Accountability
- Direct the development and evaluation of production budgets, schedules, and financial assumptions for development projects, new series, and returning productions.
- Partner with Production Finance and Production Accounting to monitor cost reports, forecasts, estimated final costs, and overall financial performance across assigned productions.
- Proactively identify financial risks, budget variances, and cost-saving opportunities; recommend corrective actions and communicate material issues to divisional leadership.
- Evaluate the financial and operational impact of creative changes, staffing decisions, production modifications, and scheduling adjustments.
- Support production economics through effective resource allocation, vendor management, contract negotiations, and evaluation of domestic and international tax incentives.
- Establish clear production reporting, financial accountability, and operational controls consistent with corporate standards.
Executive Leadership & Production Management
- Recruit, hire, supervise, and develop senior production personnel, including Executives in Charge of Production, Line Producers, and other key production management staff.
- Establish clear performance expectations and accountability for budgets, schedules, production quality, compliance, and delivery.
- Provide executive guidance to production teams, proactively addressing staffing, logistical, creative, and operational challenges.
- Evaluate production staffing structures and resource requirements to ensure appropriate management capacity across concurrent projects.
- Foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented production culture emphasizing transparency, sound judgment, operational discipline, and effective communication.
Creative, Network & Corporate Partnerships
- Serve as a senior production liaison to network and streaming partners, maintaining strong relationships and clear communication regarding production progress, budgets, schedules, and deliverables.
- Collaborate with creative executives, showrunners, and production leadership to translate creative concepts into practical, financially responsible production plans.
- Partner with Legal, Business Affairs, Labor Relations, Human Resources, Risk Management, Safety, Insurance, and other corporate functions to address production-related contractual, personnel, financial, and regulatory matters.
- Provide production expertise in negotiations involving production services, staffing agreements, vendor contracts, licensing, rights and clearances, and international production arrangements.
- Ensure productions comply with applicable corporate policies, labor agreements, safety protocols, insurance requirements, and contractual obligations, escalating
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