Company and Culture
Complex is the leading platform for global youth culture and music lifestyle, combining advanced content, commerce, and live experiences at an unmatched scale. Through innovative storytelling, Complex covers music, streetwear, style, sports, art, and more. Its content actively engages audiences in an ongoing conversation, capturing and shaping the moment of convergence culture. Backed by a powerful media presence and a thoughtfully curated marketplace, Complex is changing how fans connect with their favorite brands and artists while helping shape the future of digital culture and commerce.
Why We’re Hiring
The Creative Producer sits at the crossroads of innovation, live production, and creative development within Complex’s video team. This role leads the execution of Complex LIVE programming while helping to generate, develop, and visualize the next wave of Complex video formats and franchises across platforms.
As part of the Video Development team, this producer is both hands-on and future-focused—someone who thrives in fast-moving creative environments and understands how to turn culture into premium live and digital video experiences. The role requires strong skills in creative ideation, video production, and digital storytelling, with the ability to turn brainstorming into clear decks, pilots, and key “tentpole” moments that move the brand forward.
This position requires both production discipline and a creative, innovative mindset—someone who knows Complex culture deeply and understands how digital media storytelling works.
Top 3 Keys to Success
• Deliver premium live content: Produce live streams and recurring shows that reflect Complex’s voice and creative standards, owning the process from concept through broadcast and coordinating across studio, production, and talent teams.
• Turn ideas into proof: Convert creative concepts into decks, visuals, and pilot-ready plans that bring development work to life.
• Combine innovation with execution: Apply cultural insight and emerging technologies to strengthen both live programming and creative development outputs.
The Creative Development Producer is both an active doer and a strategic thinker—someone who thrives where creativity meets execution at high speed. This role strengthens Complex’s ability to create live, socially relevant, and culturally meaningful content, while also supporting the broader development pipeline that drives the brand’s future formats and franchises.
Who You Are
- 4+ years of experience in digital video production, creative development, or live streaming.
- Proven ability to produce and direct live and multi-camera digital productions.
- Strong creative instincts, with awareness of emerging talent, cultural trends, and digital storytelling formats.
- Proficiency in communication, public speaking, and presentation design, including experience building visually engaging decks.
- Familiarity with streaming platforms (YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and IG Live) and the community/content dynamics that come with them.
- Comfort with, or openness to, using AI and emerging technologies as visualization tools for development imagery and pre-visualizations.
- Excellent communication, organization, and time-management skills—able to manage multiple projects at once.
- Collaborative attitude, creative motivation, and enthusiasm for culture, content, and innovation.
- Ability to work on-site in SoHo five days per week.
- Success Metrics
- Quantitative:
- Consistent delivery of high-quality live productions that match the creative intent of Complex LIVE.
- Consistent progress of clearly defined new development projects through the Greenlight process and into pilot production.
- Audience growth, engagement, and retention results across live and social content.
- Qualitative:
- Positive feedback from internal development, production, and social teams.
- Recognition for creativity, professionalism, and innovation across both live and development work.
- Support in creating repeatable, scalable video formats that strengthen Complex’s IP ecosystem.
What You’ll Do
- COMPLEX LIVE:
- Produce live programming across the Complex LIVE network, including studio shows, IRL streams, branded activations, and major events.
- Coordinate between production, studio, and social teams to ensure smooth broadcast execution and effective social syndication and redistribution.
- Work with internal and external talent—Complex hosts, well-known celebrities, influencers, and cultural figures—to create engaging live moments.
- Partner with social, editorial, and platform teams to plan pre-promotion, live engagement, and post-stream clip cutdowns across social channels and Complex O&O.
- Maintain high standards of creative and production consistency across Complex’s live programming lineup.
- CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT:
- Support the ideation, documentation, and packaging of new video formats and franchises.
- Lead and participate in brainstorms and creative development meetings, contributing fresh, trend-informed ideas and providing detailed documentation to track progress and push initiatives forward.
- Research and identify new talent, emerging creators, and content trends that align with Complex’s audience.
- Create development decks, treatments, and visual materials to communicate and sell new concepts internally and externally.
- Help manage the Greenlight submission process and support approved projects through to pilot production.
- Use AI and creative tools (such as Midjourney, Runway, or Gemini) to generate concept art, visualizations, and pre-production imagery.
- COLLABORATION & EXECUTION:
- Partner with the Executive Producer and VP of Video Development to advance active projects and improve creative workflows.
- Collaborate across teams with Editorial, Social, and Commerce to align creative direction and maintain brand consistency.
- Contribute to ongoing franchises with creative input, ideas for special episodes, and live extensions.
What We Offer
- Top-tier health, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Benefits FSA
- Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 401k with a 4% match
- Pet insurance
- Legal and identity theft plans
- Vacation time and sick days
$100,000 – $110,000 per year
The pay range for this position, including salary and commission, is shown above. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as location, experience, and performance. The listed range is only one part of Complex’s Total Rewards package.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.
The statements above describe the key responsibilities that are generally considered principal and essential functions of the role. Individual circumstances may require different combinations of duties for specific employees.
Complex participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without needing visa sponsorship.
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