Senior Culinary Producer

About Us:

TMB is the community-driven entertainment company engaging more than 250 million consumers worldwide across streaming TV, social media, web and print. Our portfolio of brands including FailArmy, Family Handyman, People Are Awesome, Reader's Digest, Taste of Home, The Healthy, and The Pet Collective, is powered by content that's inspired and created by our fans. Together our community sparks curiosity, fuels laughter, and inspires people to live big, full, fantastic lives. Learn more about our brands, our data-driven marketing solutions, our award-winning licensing services, and much more at trustedmediabrands.com

Location:

This is an office critical position. Candidates for this role will need to be in or around the Milwaukee, WI area and will be required to be on site.

About the role:

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.

About you:

Driven by your passion to cook, create and inspire, you’re a highly creative individual with a hunger for meaningful (and fun) work. A person with a diverse skill set and demonstrated success with the many facets required of this role (including managerial experience and being comfortable on camera), you are flexible with job duties and self-motivated to produce the best content possible. You have food-styled recipes on a professional level with other players in the editorial or digital media landscape. You are comfortable styling and shooting recipes, honoring recipe integrity (following the Taste of Home recipe, as written) while maintaining overall brand voice and continuity. You enjoy managing people in person, working amongst your direct reports and peers and appreciate the value of giving regular feedback to help others grow. You are collaborative in nature and understand how to work with and motivate a team in a fast-paced environment to make content come to life across multiple channels. Being a part of a dynamic environment with others who share in your healthy obsession for all things food related excites and delights you!

Your day-to-day:

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

You have:

• 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

About this team:

As part of the culinary team of superstars, you will not only be among talented, high-performing, goal-focused foodie friends who laugh (and snack) a lot, but you will be in an incredibly unique career. We work very closely with the Visual Production, Digital and Video teams to create high-quality content that is profitable and grows the brand. To get through all our tasks, overcome challenges and achieve our daily goals, it is important that our work environment is friendly, trusting, and supportive as well as incredibly productive. You will be a welcome and appreciated member of a dedicated, successful team. 

Our benefits:

We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a TMB employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. Learn more about what life is like working at TMB at https://www.trustedmediabrands.com/careers/.

TMB embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.