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Q Department appoints Vlad Bar to the team
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The veteran music producer, supervisor, and A&R executive joins as Executive Creative Producer and Music Supervisor.
Sound studio Q Department have announced the appointment of Vlad Bar as Executive Creative Producer & Music Supervisor.
With a career spanning more than two decades, Bar brings a rare combination of deep industry expertise, cultural fluency and a highly developed musical instinct. As a music producer, supervisor and A&R executive, he has helped shape iconic campaigns and launch celebrated artists, building a body of work that bridges the mainstream and the avant-garde with unusual precision and authenticity.
Previously, Bar led A&R efforts across various major and indie labels including Capitol Records, Sony Music Group and Partisan Records. Since moving into Film/TV/Ads, Bar has led music and sound-driven campaigns for brands including Verizon, Samsung, Squarespace and Google, where his original and licensed music choices have created emotional resonance across broadcast, digital and film.
Among his standout credits are Target’s Grammy campaign featuring Lil Yachty and Carly Rae Jepsen directed by Roman Coppola as well as CeraVe’s Michael CeraVe Super Bowl spot directed by Tim & Eric, both of which became notable cultural moments. He has also held senior roles at Mother, dentsu, and Ogilvy, and is widely regarded for his impeccable taste, global network and ability to unite art and commerce.
Bar joins Q Department at a moment of major creative momentum. Recent projects helmed by Bar at the studio include campaigns for Google, Robinhood, Squarespace, Lululemon, Moncler, Droga5’s Essentia, and PwC for Ogilvy, as well as Translation’s Cadillac Super Bowl location-based experience in Times Square. As Q Department advances two immersive projects tied to marquee entertainment properties slated for Q3, and builds on boundary-pushing work such as ANCESTRA - the Eliza McNitt-directed AI-meets-live-action film from Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup in collaboration with Google DeepMind - his appointment further strengthens the company’s leadership across music, sound, and emerging narrative forms.
“Vlad sets a new bar for our production team,” said Jacqueline Bosnjak, CEO of Q Department. “You can teach process. You can teach execution. But you cannot teach judgment, instinct, or taste. The people who matter most arrive with that inner standard already formed. Vlad is one of those rare people.“
“I’ve spent my career at the intersection of music, culture and brand storytelling, and what Q Department has built is exactly the kind of creative environment I’ve always wanted to be a part of,” said Bar. “Their pedigree of work speaks for itself, but what excites me most is the creative ambition here and the imagination behind it. Drazen and Jacqueline have assembled something truly special: a studio where craft isn’t an afterthought, it’s the foundation.”
“Vlad has a deep relationship with taste,” said Drazen Bosnjak, Founder & CCO of Q Department. “Not taste as decoration, but taste as truth. He can hear what a piece wants to become, and he has the experience and restraint to help it arrive there without imposing on it. That is a rare creative gift. In our collaboration, it is something you feel unmistakably in the work.”
In addition to his leadership across campaigns and brand work, Bar will contribute to Q Department’s broader creative expansion, including a growing slate of filmmaker-driven projects and the studio’s evolving director-focused collaborations.
