How to hire a marketing production manager

How to hire a marketing production manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step marketing production manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a marketing production manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new marketing production manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the marketing production manager you need to hire. Certain marketing production manager roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

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   Hiring the perfect marketing production manager also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   This list presents marketing production manager salaries for various positions.

   Type of Marketing Production Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Marketing Production Manager	Advertising, promotions, and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in products or services. They work with art directors, sales agents, and financial staff members.	$32-50
   Business Development Director	A business development director specializes in crafting plans and strategies to develop the relationship between the brand, clients, and other key characters in the industry. It is their responsibility to examine and understand everything about the brand and figure out which areas require improvement or changes... Show more	$34-92
   Partner	A business partner is responsible for providing strategies and recommendations on how the business will operate, increasing its revenues while sharing profits. Business partners must have extensive knowledge of how the current market industry works to identify the best decisions for the business... Show more	$14-87

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Digital Marketing
   • Email Marketing
   • Integrated Marketing
   • Print Production
   • Vendor Relationships
   • Production Process
   • Email Campaigns
   • Graphic Design
   • Creative Development
   • Brand Marketing
   • Adobe Creative Suite
   • Creative Process
   • Production Management
   • POS

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   Responsibilities:

   • Create timelines for all assign work and manage from initial concept and copywriting stages to the finished piece.
   • Lead marketing operations include integrating and administering Salesforce, HubSpot, InsideSales.com, and RainKing processes and mechanics.
   • Create Internet mass mailers using HTML coding.
   • Produce emails from conception/design to HTML coding and deploy with through DoubleClick.
   • Serve as liaison and point of contact during external events at YouTube Los Angeles!
   • Project oversight include qualitative and quantitative data collection that ultimately substantiate the value of the new foaming platform against customer KPIs.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your marketing production manager job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A marketing production manager can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, marketing production managers' average salary in alabama is 32% less than in oregon.
   • Seniority. Entry-level marketing production managers 36% less than senior-level marketing production managers.
   • Certifications. A marketing production manager with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a marketing production manager's salary.

   Average marketing production manager salary

   $84,179yearly

   $40.47 hourly rate

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   Entry-level marketing production manager salary

   $67,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 12, 2026

4. Writing a marketing production manager job description

   A job description for a marketing production manager role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a marketing production manager job description:

   Marketing production manager job description example

   Culver City,California,United States
   
   Marketing
   
   + Prior experience in production management for creative agency, network, streaming service or studio; ideally, 7 years minimum.
   
   + Experience working across internal partners and external agencies to understand their needs and deliver under tight deadlines.
   
   + Robust understanding of AV editorial and finishing workflows and rates.
   
   + Knowledge of video/audio codecs as well as HD, 4K and UHD formats.
   
   + Solid understanding and knowledge of the creative production process and terminology.
   
   + Excellent project management skills; strong time-management & attention to detail.
   
   + Highly organized with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
   
   + Creative problem-solving skills and good follow-through.
   
   + Clear written/verbal communication.
   
   + Explains complex matters in easy-to-understand terms. Strong interpersonal capabilities.
   
   + Proactive demeanor and ability to take initiative and work both independently and within a team.
   
   + Able to streamline complex processes, establish workflows and keep up to date with the latest technologies.
   
   + Proficiency in Frame IO, BOX, Media Portal, Airtable, digital asset management and file transfer protocols and systems.
   
   **Description**
   
   Partner with Custom Content creative leads in the development and production of featurettes, original custom content pieces, marketing clips and EPK packages. Collect estimates from vendors, update budgetary reporting tools and documentation; compare estimates to vendor rate cards and flag variations. Facilitate delivery of pre-release content to vendors; track episode delivery schedule in conjunction with marketing asset production timelines. Monitor finishing schedules and flag to creative production any variations affecting deliverable deadlines. Manage vendor kickoff for custom content editorial and finishing, setup access to collaborative folders and tools. Run point on comms between collaborators in custom content editorial and delivery workflows and approvals, including Creative, Vendors, Legal, Platform, Finishing and Asset Management. Route assets to Legal BA for approval. Collaborate with Ops Lead, Custom Content Creative Directors and Associate Producers, and Finishing team in the creation and maintenance of asset production resources and documentation. Track estimates and provide reporting to Ops Lead; assist in quarterly accruals for editorial and finishing. Assist in Project Management of keynote and multi-title requests for assets in collaboration with Ops Lead and Asset Managers. Collaborate with the Operations team on the updates to tools and new technology; be a key partner in the development and build of project and asset management systems.
   
   **Education & Experience**
   
   Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
   
   **Additional Requirements**
   
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5. Post your job

   To find the right marketing production manager for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with marketing production managers they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit marketing production managers who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   To find marketing production manager candidates, you can consider the following options:

   • Post your job opening on Zippia or other job search websites.
   • Use niche websites that focus on engineering and technology jobs, such as swipe files, exit five, marketinghire, american marketing association.
   • Post your job on free job posting websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting marketing production managers requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents. You can move on to the technical interview if a candidate is good enough for the next step.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new marketing production manager

   Once you've selected the best marketing production manager candidate for the job, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, this letter should include details about the benefits and perks you offer the candidate. Ensuring that your offer is competitive is essential, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and you should be open to discussion. After you reach an agreement, the final step is formalizing the agreement with a contract.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   After that, you can create an onboarding schedule for a new marketing production manager. Human Resources and the hiring manager should complete Employee Action Forms. Human Resources should also ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc., and that new employee files are created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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