Video Editor / Producer, The Dodo

Job Description

WHO WE ARE

The Dodo is the world's number-one animal media brand, with over 1 billion video views per month. We're the most-engaged-with animal brand on social media, and we have a dedicated, loyal follower base, with more than 48 million followers on Facebook alone. We create fun, heartwarming, engaging animal stories that help make caring about animals a viral cause.

The Dodo is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Dodo is seeking a creative and experienced visual storyteller to join our video team. To thrive in this role, you'll need to excel at sourcing and crafting an emotionally compelling narrative that hooks viewers immediately and keeps them watching. You'll produce midform social video from start to finish - from sourcing content online, conducting interviews and requesting extra footage, to scripting and structuring a memorable, emotional story - and you'll be short-form-savvy with experience creating content on Instagram or Tiktok and knowing what short-form video stops people in their feeds.
• Create an allotted number of videos start to finish: sourcing, producing and editing
• Consistently pitch and bank strong projects with viral potential and meet monthly or quarterly deliverables
• Produce an entire story with very little, if any, oversight from manager - conducting a pre-pro call with the talent, constructing a narrative, establishing a shot list that delivers on that vision, conducting interviews, and editing the produced footage into a cohesive story
• Create and maintain strong relationships with contributors - this includes regularly following their platforms for updates and establishing a regular pipeline of communication for future pitches
• Will be a Dodo series lead, reviewing pitches and leaving notes on other editors' projects, or have another ongoing project that benefits the entire video team
• Will mentor new hires and lead onboarding sessions
• Will lead select presentations in team meetings
• Ability to brainstorm new ideas and forms for short form content
• Will consistently exceeds team benchmarks
• Will consistently produce story beats needed to create a complete arc and deliver on the social copy for midforms, and consistently finds clever ways to produce short-form video
• Will take full accountability for deliverables and performance, whether as an individual or as a leader of a group
• Will understand business needs and individual role in meeting company goals

WHO YOU ARE
• 3+ years experience producing and editing
• Has a proactive, can-do attitude and collaborates with others across the team
• Calm under pressure and proactively pivots when needed
• Proficient in Premiere and can efficiently use our template and follow guidelines so videos are consistently free of technical mistakes
• Familiar with midform and short-form video and familiarity with all social media platforms
• Proactively takes on projects and initiatives that contribute to the success of the team
• Eager to embrace new challenges and smartly experiment with new formats while remaining true to the brand and best practices

If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We've hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

This job is remote with potential to come into one of our offices. We're dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all of our employees, and when we reopen, will require everyone who works from one of our offices to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees with approved religious or medical exemptions may be subject to additional safety requirements, such as submitting to regular COVID-19 testing and/or wearing a face covering in our offices.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjn85w-3-133-12-172-42 in your application.