diff --git a/kpops/component_handlers/kubernetes/model.py b/kpops/component_handlers/kubernetes/model.py
index 5970de1bf..e2f7fece7 100644
--- a/kpops/component_handlers/kubernetes/model.py
+++ b/kpops/component_handlers/kubernetes/model.py
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 K8S_LABEL_MAX_LEN = 63
 
+# https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs
+K8S_CRON_JOB_NAME_MAX_LEN = 52
+
 
 class KubernetesManifest(UserDict[str, JsonType]):
     """Representation of a Kubernetes API object as YAML/JSON mapping."""
diff --git a/kpops/components/streams_bootstrap/producer/producer_app.py b/kpops/components/streams_bootstrap/producer/producer_app.py
index 21cda9ebd..44fe2e592 100644
--- a/kpops/components/streams_bootstrap/producer/producer_app.py
+++ b/kpops/components/streams_bootstrap/producer/producer_app.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 from pydantic import Field, ValidationError, computed_field
 from typing_extensions import override
 
+from kpops.component_handlers.kubernetes.model import K8S_CRON_JOB_NAME_MAX_LEN
+from kpops.component_handlers.kubernetes.utils import trim
 from kpops.components.base_components.kafka_app import KafkaAppCleaner
 from kpops.components.common.app_type import AppType
 from kpops.components.common.topic import (
@@ -54,6 +56,10 @@ class ProducerApp(StreamsBootstrap):
         description=describe_attr("from_", __doc__),
     )
 
+    @property
+    def is_cron_job(self) -> bool:
+        return bool(not self.values.deployment and self.values.schedule)
+
     @computed_field
     @cached_property
     def _cleaner(self) -> ProducerAppCleaner:
@@ -70,6 +76,13 @@ def apply_to_outputs(self, name: str, topic: TopicConfig) -> None:
             case _:
                 super().apply_to_outputs(name, topic)
 
+    @property
+    @override
+    def helm_name_override(self) -> str:
+        if self.is_cron_job:
+            return trim(K8S_CRON_JOB_NAME_MAX_LEN, self.full_name, "")
+        return super().helm_name_override
+
     @property
     @override
     def output_topic(self) -> KafkaTopic | None:
diff --git a/tests/components/streams_bootstrap/test_producer_app.py b/tests/components/streams_bootstrap/test_producer_app.py
index 67b5e2929..3cbc510eb 100644
--- a/tests/components/streams_bootstrap/test_producer_app.py
+++ b/tests/components/streams_bootstrap/test_producer_app.py
@@ -41,14 +41,39 @@ def test_release_name(self):
 
     @pytest.fixture()
     def producer_app(self) -> ProducerApp:
-        return ProducerApp(
-            name=PRODUCER_APP_NAME,
-            **{
+        producer = ProducerApp.model_validate(
+            {
+                "name": PRODUCER_APP_NAME,
+                "version": "3.2.1",
+                "namespace": "test-namespace",
+                "values": {
+                    "image": "ProducerApp",
+                    "kafka": {"bootstrapServers": "fake-broker:9092"},
+                },
+                "clean_schemas": True,
+                "to": {
+                    "topics": {
+                        "producer-app-output-topic": TopicConfig(
+                            type=OutputTopicTypes.OUTPUT, partitions_count=10
+                        ),
+                    }
+                },
+            },
+        )
+        assert producer.is_cron_job is False
+        return producer
+
+    @pytest.fixture()
+    def producer_app_cron_job(self) -> ProducerApp:
+        producer = ProducerApp.model_validate(
+            {
+                "name": PRODUCER_APP_NAME,
                 "version": "3.2.1",
                 "namespace": "test-namespace",
                 "values": {
                     "image": "ProducerApp",
                     "kafka": {"bootstrapServers": "fake-broker:9092"},
+                    "schedule": "0 12 * * *",
                 },
                 "clean_schemas": True,
                 "to": {
@@ -60,11 +85,24 @@ def producer_app(self) -> ProducerApp:
                 },
             },
         )
+        assert producer.is_cron_job is True
+        return producer
 
     @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
     def empty_helm_get_values(self, mocker: MockerFixture) -> MagicMock:
         return mocker.patch.object(Helm, "get_values", return_value=None)
 
+    def test_helm_name_override(self, producer_app: ProducerApp):
+        assert len(producer_app.helm_name_override) == 63
+        assert producer_app.helm_name_override == PRODUCER_APP_HELM_NAME_OVERRIDE
+
+    def test_cron_job_helm_name_override(self, producer_app_cron_job: ProducerApp):
+        assert len(producer_app_cron_job.helm_name_override) == 52
+        assert (
+            producer_app_cron_job.helm_name_override
+            == "${pipeline.name}-test-producer-app-with-long-n-c4c51"
+        )
+
     def test_cleaner(self, producer_app: ProducerApp):
         cleaner = producer_app._cleaner
         assert isinstance(cleaner, ProducerAppCleaner)