Content Production Manager
About The Position
This is a hybrid production and engineering role at the center of Tavern’s content pipeline. On any given day, you might be sourcing candidate clips from cable news archives, organizing a growing library of footage and photography, coordinating voiceover talent, or writing a tool that automates part of that process. The manual work is real and it matters. We need someone who will do it well and with urgency. We also need someone who will look at that manual work and ask: how do I make this ten times faster? This is not a creative lead role, but strong taste and sharp instincts will make you better at it.
Requirements
- 0–2 years of experience in content production, media research, digital production, or a related field. New grads and career-switchers with strong relevant project work are welcome.
- Demonstrated ability to find things: clips, footage, assets, sources. You know how to dig and you don’t give up.
- Exceptional organizational skills. You build systems that other people can actually use, not just systems that work in your head.
- Some technical ability — enough to write a script, automate a workflow, or build a simple tool when the manual version gets repetitive. Proficiency in Python or JavaScript preferred.
- Genuinely excited about AI tools and how they're changing production work. You're already experimenting with them for sourcing, tagging, transcription, and asset management, and you bring that curiosity to everything you build.
- Scrappy, resourceful, and unflappable under deadline.
- Enough fluency in video post-production to pull selects, check files, and know what good looks like. Whether that comes from hands-on editing experience or working with AI-generated output, you can spot quality and flag what falls short.
- Comfortable with basic image editing in Photoshop or a comparable tool — enough to crop, resize, or prep a still when needed.
Nice To Haves
- Political, advocacy, or campaign experience preferred but not required. Familiarity with the cadence and pace of political work is a real advantage.
- An engineering background or early engineering career. If you think in systems and can build what you can’t yet automate, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Source and organize video clips, b-roll, photography, archival footage, and other media assets to match briefs from the delivery and production team.
- Build and maintain asset libraries — footage, photography, music, voiceover archives — that are organized well enough for the whole team to use.
- Coordinate voiceover talent end-to-end: casting, booking, session management, and delivery of clean final files.
- Source and license music — stock, custom, and original — and manage rights, clearances, and documentation.
- Identify opportunities to automate or accelerate manual production workflows, and build tools or scripts to do so.
- Track deliverables across multiple concurrent projects without losing track of anything.
- Identify and onboard new sources, libraries, and tools that expand what Tavern can produce.
- Support the broader delivery team with whatever production logistics a project requires.
Benefits
- Premium health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Office closed for all federal holidays
- 401k match
- Equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
