The Dotdash Food & Drink Group is seeking a can-do Video Producer with a passion for food and cooking videos. In this role you will develop, produce, and direct short TikTok tutorials, longer form YouTube hack videos, onsite hosted master classes, hand spans recipe videos, and much more. The Food & Drink Group Video Producer should be a creative force experienced with both high-volume production and food video for a digital publisher. You’ll have experience taking a series from concept to pilot and you can juggle all the logistics required to produce a volume of videos at once. It’s essential that you be immersed in food video and an obsessed watcher across all platforms. You also have the practical knowledge and experience to guide videos through the entire production lifecycle. You’ll be responsible for creative development of video ideas, overseeing production and post production, final asset delivery – and everything in between. The ideal producer has a contemporary sense of style, pacing, and aesthetics, can lead a crew on set, and has experience directing cooking talent and hosts. The Food & Drink Group Video Producer will work across all of our food and drink brands: The Spruce Eats, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, and Liquor.com; on location, and in our newly opened kitchen studios in the Financial District. This is an exciting role with the chance for meaningful creative input and a chance to have ownership over a wide variety of formats and topics in the food and recipe space. The video team at Dotdash is fast-growing and our top candidate will be a strategic thinker with a can-do attitude who always finds a way to make it work. 

About Your Contributions: 

• From brainstorming to on-schedule asset delivery, deliver videos that drive views and engagement 
• Deliver on-brand ways to illustrate video concepts. Take editorial goals and turn them into clever video concepts. Develop format ideas and directing, shooting, and editing styles for video franchises.
• Own pre-production, research, casting/talent sourcing, scripting, crew, and location booking. Organize and coordinate shoots.
• Research and write scripts; develop treatments and shot lists, and create breakdowns
• Ensure that all video content delivers best-in-class cooking tips and food imagery; adjust culinary approach, as needed, for each of our Food Group brands and their specific audiences  
• Direct shoots (remotely and/or in person, as Covid safety requirements allow) and work closely with on-camera talent of varying levels of experience; help to develop on-camera talent.
• Lead camera and lighting crew on set to produce beautiful food and cooking visuals
• Oversee and deliver edits that illustrate a keen understanding of what works across all social platforms
• Manage personal production queue, asset delivery, and upload across content management tools including Google Sheets, Airtable, and JIRA

About Your Role:

• Extensive knowledge of producing and proven experience owning food video projects from concept through delivery
• 4-6 years experience producing editorial video professionally for a digital publisher in the food media space, including social media platforms
• Adept at translating goals into inventive video concepts and formats; ability to capture and address stakeholder concerns while maintaining focus and creative vision
• Working knowledge of DSLRs, digital cinema cameras, and lighting techniques; a sharp eye for what makes food look beautiful on camera 
• Proven experience directing on-camera hosts of varying levels of experience
• Proficient in both editing and overseeing edits with a keen sense of pacing and style; Adobe Creative Suite proficiency required 
• Superb organizational skills; thorough and detail oriented while managing multiple projects
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced deadline-driven production environment. Resourceful in every respect from digging up the perfect on-camera talent to swapping out a prop in a pinch
• Stellar written and verbal communicator; impressive visual storytelling skills
• Extensive knowledge of the food video space across key platforms: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube

About Us:

Dotdash's vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.

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