# CEO (Founder) **Group:** Founders **Covers:** Executive producer duties: partners, venues, fundraising, cutoff and label policy, schedule and budget ## Roll-out by scenario | Scenario | Engagement | Window | Rate | Year-one cost | |---|---|---|---|---| | A: full-time studio | Founder (in place) | M0–M11 | Set by founders; not included | not included | | B: lean core + contracts | Founder (in place) | M0–M11 | Set by founders; not included | not included | ## Responsibilities - Executive producer for every production: schedule, budget, cutoff and label policy - Partnerships and venues (MMA, NHA, Atheneum, MAAH); MOUs and collections agreements - Fundraising and the head-hunter relationship; investor and grant reporting - Hiring the historian of record and contract specialists; rights counsel relationship - Final sign-off with the historian before anything ships ## Skills - Producing and budgeting multi-discipline media projects - Partnership and grant writing - Reading a rights map - The ground rules ([[Ground Rules — Historical Virtual Humans]]) ## Requirements - Founder; in place at M0 ## Remote working Owns the weekly all-hands and the async decision log; plans the two in-person weeks. Back to [[Roles and Hiring Plan]] · [[Year One Budget — Personnel]]