She was a guest panel speaker at Slamdance Film Festival in 2018 for the polytechnic series, Life As A Truly Independent Filmmaker: Survival guide and is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

[3] In 2010, prior to her independent producer career, Goodridge Cruz served as a Commercial Directors Representative under Siobhan McCafferty & Associates.

In March 2015, Goodridge Cruz departed Bob Industries to launch her own production company, Beyond Ideas,[6] where she began to produce music videos for Beck, X Ambassadors, Tim Heidecker, Lindsey Stirling, PartyNextDoor, Father John Misty, She & Him, Melanie Martinez, Fitz and the Tantrums, Jade Bird, George Ezra, among others.

[10] She became a permanent fixture on Jeremy Weiss and Aaron Farley's Killradio show Get The Fuck Up Radio after fans loved her guest performance as "Jentern" (Jennifer the intern).

Goodridge Cruz and bandmate Ronnie Washburn later formed shoegaze band Seaspin, putting out the EP Reverser in 2010 under Buddyhead Records.

[17][18][19][20] In 2019, Goodridge Cruz line-produced season one of The Disney Channel's "Shook", in association with the Duplass brothers's production company DBP Donut.

[24][25] Goodridge Cruz went on to co-produce feature film The Argument, directed by Robert Schwartzman and starring Dan Fogler, Emma Bell, Cleopatra Coleman, Danny Pudi, Tyler James Williams and Maggie Q, which was released September 4, 2020.

[31] In 2024, Goodridge Cruz co-produced Gia Coppola's film The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Dave Bautista and Jamie Lee Curtis.