Senior Culinary Producer

Trusted Media Brands - Milwaukee, WI

Full-time - Senior

Milwaukee, WI

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Senior Culinary Producer for Taste of Home, you are responsible for providing expert food styling services for photography both independently and in a team environment. Always keeping the TOH brand aesthetic in mind, you split your time between a fast-track set, where you style and photograph recipes that will be live on site within days, and our premium food set, where you collaborate with other culinary creatives on cross-media recipe packages. Reporting to the Executive Director, Culinary, you use your culinary knowledge, technical know-how and styling sensibilities to make our high-performing recipes shine. You are organized, flexible and an enthusiastic manager of people and projects, a critical member of the Culinary Team responsible for executing visual content that can be used across all food media products in areas that spotlight Taste of Home's authority in the food space.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a collaborative team that executes digital and print content as well as work autonomously styling and photographing recipes, meeting daily production goals.
• Style food with an accurate representation of Taste of Home recipes that meet our food photography standards.
• Manage and mentor team members by sharing technical skills, brand knowledge and leading by example; regularly providing feedback and offering support.
• Support culinary strategy by ensuring the efforts of the culinary producer team align seamlessly with team goals and initiatives.
• Utilize our collaborative web-based platform (Airtable) for scheduling and production workflows as well as our proprietary recipe management system (RMS).
• Use our digital tools (Adobe Bridge and Woodwing Assets) for digital asset management.
• May be asked to star in cooking videos (hands-in-pans and/or on-camera) for digital and social teams.
• Participate in product testing for Affiliate content.
• Tackle assignments with direction from the Executive Director, Culinary and work on multiple initiatives simultaneously.

Requirements

• 3+ years proven success in professional food styling and photography experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a food-related field (culinary arts degree or equivalent experience) or photography/design.
• Prior experience in a leadership role managing people is required.
• Ability to prioritize and organize, consistently meeting deadlines and catching all the details whether working independently or as part of a team.
• Effective communication skills; comfortable accepting and giving constructive feedback in a collaborative environment with a commitment to supporting an evolving, dynamic team.
• Experience with content production and digital asset management tools such as Airtable, Photoshop, Bridge, Woodwing and Wordpress, as well as Microsoft Excel.

Benefits

• Work/life balance
• Generous time off
• Comprehensive benefits and programs