Post Producer

early media • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Early Media is a media company building both scripted and unscripted video content for kids, teen and young adult audiences. On the scripted side, we produce vertical drama series with real viral potential and mass appeal, distributed through our own mobile-first streaming app. We strive to preserve the craft and heart of indie production while making content young audiences actually care about. On the unscripted side, we create weekly content that supports Level, our parent learning platform, blending entertainment with real educational value to help students build academic and life skills with confidence and joy.
We're hiring a Post Producer to run the day-to-day post-production management across our scripted and unscripted slates, working directly with the Director of Post. You will manage all of our projects from ingest to delivery, and support the editors and finishing artists.

Requirements

• Proven project management skills: Comfortable keeping many moving parts (schedules, people, vendors, budgets) working together without dropping the ball
• Multi-project experience: You've tracked simultaneous projects across different phases of post at once with different timelines and resources.
• Deep understanding of the post-production process: You’re able to spot issues or bottlenecks ahead of time and solve problems before they happen
• Hands-on vendor coordination: You've booked sessions, negotiated rates, confirmed deliverables, and held vendors accountable to deadlines.
• Comfort owning a project-level budget: Experience tracking actuals, flagging cost issues, reconciling at wrap.
• Strong communicator: You manage people well and know how to get the best out of people across production, editorial, and external vendors.

Nice To Haves

• Experience producing post across both scripted and unscripted formats
• Familiarity with social-first content (TikTok, YouTube, IG) as well as traditional broadcast/streaming
• Experience negotiating with vendors, evaluating and hiring post-production talent, and managing creatives
• Comfortable building and refining processes, not just following them
• A hands-on post-production background, with the ability to jump in and fill resource gaps when needed

Responsibilities

• Scheduling & status: Owning the schedule and status of every active project in post: scripted drama, unscripted series, and pilots.
• Resource management: Knowing who's working on what, ensuring editors are available when jobs need them, and reallocating capacity when projects run behind or timelines compress. Includes coordinating and managing external vendors.
• Frontline creative feedback: You are the first person to see the editors work and you are comfortable giving notes to ensure when the videos get shared to stakeholders they are aligned with the vision for the content.
• Feedback loop: Owning the loop between post and internal stakeholders: making sure notes arrive on time, are understood and correctly implemented, and that the downstream implications of changes are flagged before they cause problems.
• Budget: Owning the post budget at the project level: actuals, purchase orders, and flagging overages before they happen.
• Operational foundation: Alongside the Director of Post, building and maintaining the department's operational backbone: workflow standards, naming conventions, documentation, and the project management system, keeping it accurate as the slate grows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed