Senior Video Producer

About Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering (platformengineering.org) is home to the world's largest community of platform engineers. Through PlatformCon, one of the world's largest conferences dedicated to platform engineering, we bring together more than 50,000 engineers, technology leaders, and decision-makers every year to share ideas, showcase innovation, and shape the future of internal developer platforms.

Alongside our events, we publish research, run a university, and produce content that reaches hundreds of thousands of engineers worldwide. In practice, we're a media house for a technical audience.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Video Producer to own video across the organization, end to end.

This is a build-it role. We don't have a video function yet. What we have is freelancers, ambition, and an audience that already trusts us. You'll come in and create the system: how we shoot, how we edit, how we publish, and how our YouTube channel grows.

You'll own the craft and the pipeline. That means editing the bulk of our output yourself, but also deciding what camera our founders point at themselves, how their rooms are lit, how their audio is captured, and what "good" looks like before anyone hits record. It means owning our YouTube channel as a channel, with packaging, Shorts, retention, and growth all in scope, rather than treating it as a place to upload finished files.

We're a distributed team, so most of what we make is produced remotely. A few times a year we come together at offsites across Europe and beyond, and you'll turn those into concentrated production windows where we capture a quarter's worth of higher-production content in a few days.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end video production: concept, shoot setup, edit, post, publish, and performance review.

• Define and maintain our remote production standards for cameras, lenses, microphones, lighting, and backgrounds, and set up the team so a home office consistently produces broadcast-credible video.

• Coach on-camera talent, including our founders, on framing, audio, pacing, and delivery, and hold the standard once it's set.

• Edit the majority of our weekly output across long-form, interview, explainer, event, and short-form content.

• Own our YouTube channel: packaging, thumbnails, titles, descriptions, chapters, SEO, and publishing cadence.

• Build and run our Shorts strategy as a deliberate format, not as offcuts from long-form.

• Analyze channel performance across retention, CTR, watch time, and subscriber growth, and use it to decide what we make next.

• Plan and run quarterly production sprints at our in-person offsites, including shot lists, scheduling, and directing local crew where needed.

• Capture and repurpose content from PlatformCon and our other events.

• Build the systems behind all of this: intake and brief formats, turnaround expectations, asset libraries, templates, and brand kit.

• Manage a bench of external animators, editors, and specialists for advanced motion work and high-volume weeks.
  

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of professional experience, including substantial hands-on responsibility for video production and post-production

• Demonstrable ownership of video end to end. You've been the person responsible for the output, not one step in someone else's pipeline.

• Expert-level editing skills in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut, with strong color and audio finishing.

• Real command of production fundamentals: camera selection and settings, lens choice, lighting design, and audio capture, including how to get all of it right in a spare bedroom rather than a studio.

• Genuine YouTube expertise. You understand how the algorithm actually rewards content, you've packaged videos that outperformed their baseline, and you can explain why a video underperformed beyond "the thumbnail was weak."

• A track record with short-form: you know what makes a Short retain, and you've made them work as a format in their own right.

• Systems thinking. You document what you build, and you'd rather fix a workflow once than fight it weekly.

• Comfort directing people who aren't natural on-camera performers, tactfully and without losing the standard.

• Experience briefing and managing freelancers or external production partners.

• Native-level English proficiency.

• Willingness to travel a few times per year for offsites and events.
  

Nice to have

• Experience producing video for technical or developer audiences, and comfort with the subject matter.

• Motion graphics and animation skills (After Effects or similar).

• Experience growing a YouTube channel with numbers you can point to.

• Podcast production and audio post experience.

• Experience running multi-day batch shoots or studio days.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted editing and production tooling, and a practical view on where it helps.

• Experience working in a startup or scale-up, and with remote, globally distributed teams.
  

Why join us?

You'd be the first video hire at an organization that already has the audience, the access, and the credibility, and no one shaping how any of it looks on screen. There's no existing system to inherit or work around. You define it.

You'll have direct access to the people building and running the world's most interesting internal developer platforms, and the freedom to decide how their stories get told. If you want a role where your judgment sets the standard rather than executes someone else's, this is that role.

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