About The Dodo:
The Dodo is the leading digital
media brand for animal people and the #1 animal brand on Facebook. We’re
committed to creating fun, entertaining, emotional animal-related
content — everything from cute viral videos to heartwarming rescue
stories and meaningful advocacy pieces. Our audience is everyone who
loves animals, from people who are obsessed with their pets all the way
to people dedicating their lives to making the world a better place for
animals. We are looking for passionate, proactive, flexible people who
are interested in helping build a brand that not only entertains but
makes people around the world feel connected to animals.
The Dodo is seeking an experienced
digital media storyteller with production and editing experience to help
lead our growing team of video editors and execute our expansion into
midform social video. The Senior Editor/Manager will
produce their own brand-defining video content while also managing
several video editors (a pod) and working closely with them through each
stage of the production and editing process. This person will be
responsible for their pod’s output, performance (social metrics),
creative vision and editorial voice, and constantly be working to expand
our range of storytelling techniques to new formats and platforms.
To thrive in this role, you’ll need
to excel at selecting and sourcing emotionally compelling stories and
crafting engaging, memorable narratives that hook viewers immediately
and keep them watching until the very end. You will be expected to take
your production experience and apply components of it as needed into
your team’s workflow: You’ll be responsible for determining which
stories require supplemental footage, and helping your video editors
produce that content. You love to motivate and inspire a team, deliver
timely, direct and rigorous feedback, hold other video editors
accountable for their work and use data to figure out strategies for
growth. You can also work independently and are ready to spend up to
half your time creating exceptional midform social videos from start to
finish — sourcing content online, conducting interviews, crafting shot
lists (for the videos requiring produced content), scripting and editing
a sharable, emotional story.
You and your pod will be responsible
for creating highly engaging video content that combines found and
original footage for our social platforms, including: Facebook, Facebook
Watch, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. The ideal candidate will have an
obsession with digital media, and be nimble and eager to stay two steps
ahead of rapidly evolving best practices. A passion for finding the
heart of the story, a collaborative management style and a data-driven
urgency for reaching a wide audience on social media are key.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of several video editors, working closely with them on each video they create and mentoring them through 1:1 check-ins, pod brainstorms and best practices meetings
- Develop processes to ensure that story selection, scripting, editing and packaging of each of your pod’s videos are on-brand and optimized for our social audience
- Serve as a leader on the video team and set an example by producing high-performing and brand-defining videos and implementing what’s needed to help everyone reach that level
- Source compelling stories about animals by mining social media and working with animal organizations
- Help with production elements as needed
- Find the Dodo angle that makes stories shareable through conducting interviews, requesting or shooting more content and crafting an original narrative
- Use video editing techniques and rigorous storytelling to create your own videos that exemplify the Dodo voice and brand
- Use feedback to iterate on content selection and editing techniques, working closely with other editors on the team
- Fill in for other senior members of the team when needed
- Create new best practices, and design and lead training sessions around them
- Be prepared to produce and edit supplementary footage if needed — from storyboarding to final cut
- 5+ years relevant experience editing on Adobe Premiere
- 3+ years of producing digital video content at a media publisher
- 3+ years editorial leadership experience
- Production experience: storyboarding, providing shot lists and communicating with freelance crews
- Extremely creative, organized and dedicated to creating best-in-class videos
- Excellent editorial judgment and social search skills
- Able to work independently and also provide leadership and strategic thinking within a close-knit team
- Able to juggle a fast-paced workload alongside management and quality control responsibilities
- Comfortable crafting interview questions to achieve desired creative and conducting interviews to acquire desired soundbites
- Able to conceptualize and then acquire necessary assets to execute on that vision
- Experience creating emotionally compelling narrative midform video (please provide clips)
- Basic After Effects
- Desire to work for a mission-driven company and a love of animals
- Deep
understanding of the Dodo brand and a drive to excel at the kind of
storytelling that resonates emotionally with animal lovers
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