Senior Video Content Producer
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About the Role
SOCIALEYEZ is seeking a Senior Video Content Producer with strong documentary experience and a cinematic eye to lead video projects creatively and strategically. The role involves directing shoots, mentoring a team, and producing high-quality content for digital platforms.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, development, production, and delivery of high quality video content for digital platforms, campaigns, events, websites, and social media
- Provide creative direction for video projects, ensuring each piece has a strong concept, clear story, emotional value, and cinematic quality
- Lead and mentor a team of video content creators, videographers, editors, and production support staff
- Develop original ideas, treatments, initial scripts, visual approaches, and storytelling structures for different types of content
- Bring documentary style thinking to projects by identifying real stories, human emotions, cultural details, and authentic moments
- Supervise and direct shoots for campaigns, testimonials, interviews, events, branded content, live produced shows, and social media formats
- Ensure strong cinematic quality in framing, lighting, camera movement, composition, sound, pacing, and editing rhythm
- Translate brand objectives into compelling visual narratives that work across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, websites, and campaign platforms
- Understand and apply modern social media strategies, including hooks, short form pacing, platform behavior, audience retention, vertical video formats, and trend based storytelling
- Work closely with marketing, creative, communication, and business teams to align video content with brand strategy and campaign goals
- Manage multiple video projects at different stages, from concept development to shoot planning, post production, review, and final delivery
- Review edits, guide visual style, improve storytelling flow, and ensure final outputs meet professional standards
Requirements
- Proven senior level experience in video production, documentary filmmaking, branded content, social media content, or creative video direction
- Previous experience leading or managing a video team, content team, production crew, or creative department
- Strong portfolio or showreel demonstrating cinematic work, documentary style storytelling, campaign videos, interviews, social content, and high quality visual direction
- Excellent understanding of documentary grammar, real life storytelling, human centered narratives, and observational filmmaking
- Strong command of camera direction, lighting, composition, sound, interviews, visual mood, pacing, and edit structure
- Solid understanding of modern social media content strategies, including reels, short form video, vertical storytelling, platform trends, audience engagement, and retention techniques
- Strong knowledge of editing workflows using Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or similar professional software
- Ability to manage multiple projects, teams, timelines, and creative expectations under pressure
- Strong communication, leadership, and presentation skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Film, Documentary Filmmaking, Cinematography, Media Studies, Visual Communication, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, or a related field is preferred
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Job Overview
- We are looking for a Senior Creative Video Lead/ Senior Video Content Producer with strong documentary experience, a refined cinematic eye, and a deep understanding of modern social media storytelling.
- This is a senior role for someone who can lead video projects creatively and strategically, guide a team, and shape content that is visually powerful, emotionally engaging, and relevant for today’s digital platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, development, production, and delivery of high quality video content for digital platforms, campaigns, events, websites, and social media.
- Provide creative direction for video projects, ensuring each piece has a strong concept, clear story, emotional value, and cinematic quality.
- Lead and mentor a team of video content creators, videographers, editors, and production support staff.
- Develop original ideas, treatments, initial scripts, visual approaches, and storytelling structures for different types of content.
- Bring documentary style thinking to projects by identifying real stories, human emotions, cultural details, and authentic moments.
- Supervise and direct shoots for campaigns, testimonials, interviews, events, branded content, live produced shows, and social media formats.
- Ensure strong cinematic quality in framing, lighting, camera movement, composition, sound, pacing, and editing rhythm.
- Translate brand objectives into compelling visual narratives that work across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, websites, and campaign platforms.
- Understand and apply modern social media strategies, including hooks, short form pacing, platform behavior, audience retention, vertical video formats, and trend based storytelling.
- Work closely with marketing, creative, communication, and business teams to align video content with brand strategy and campaign goals.
- Manage multiple video projects at different stages, from concept development to shoot planning, post production, review, and final delivery.
- Review edits, guide visual style, improve storytelling flow, and ensure final outputs meet professional standards.
Requirements
- Proven senior level experience in video production, documentary filmmaking, branded content, social media content, or creative video direction.
- Previous experience leading or managing a video team, content team, production crew, or creative department.
- Strong portfolio or showreel demonstrating cinematic work, documentary style storytelling, campaign videos, interviews, social content, and high quality visual direction.
- Excellent understanding of documentary grammar, real life storytelling, human centered narratives, and observational filmmaking.
- Strong command of camera direction, lighting, composition, sound, interviews, visual mood, pacing, and edit structure.
- Solid understanding of modern social media content strategies, including reels, short form video, vertical storytelling, platform trends, audience engagement, and retention techniques.
- Ability to lead both small solo productions and larger team based shoots.
- Strong knowledge of editing workflows using Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or similar professional software.
- Colour grading knowledge and visual finishing sense will be an advantage.
- Experience with gimbals such as DJI Ronin or similar stabilizers is preferred.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, teams, timelines, and creative expectations under pressure.
- Strong communication, leadership, and presentation skills.
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