Production Manager (Studio)

Speak • Los Angeles, CA

2d

About The Position

We're seeking a Production Manager to lead Speak's LA video production studio. You'll establish a distinct visual standard across all video lessons while managing studio operations and team.
You'll implement a cohesive style through operational oversight, attend shoots to provide strategic direction, and document creative standards enabling team sustainability. You'll also pilot AI tools to improve post-production efficiency — understanding when AI enhances versus compromises quality. If you're energized by elevating production standards, building systems, and exploring AI workflows in media production, we'd love to meet you.

Requirements

• Production Management: Working knowledge of the full production pipeline — pre-production planning, shoot-day logistics, and post-production oversight. Comfortable managing the operations of production, our team of editors or post-production work, and drive the production team to execute goals/ meet deadlines
• Ownership Without Bureaucracy: Takes full accountability for creative output quality. Operates with urgency and independence — doesn't wait for permission to fix what's broken. Designs efficient systems and workflows that enable faster collaboration between studio and learning designers
• On-Set Authority & Execution: Comfortable commanding a set, redirecting talent mid-take, and making fast creative decisions under time pressure. Has worked closely with directors, producers, and DP’s on set and can step in when needed.
• Creative Vision & Directing: Proven ability to define and execute a visual style across a body of video content. Deep understanding of what makes educational or digital-first video feel premium, can articulate "what good looks like" for overall tone and direction of the end product, and consistently delivers at that standard.
• AI & Emerging Tools Knowledge: Genuine enthusiasm for integrating AI into video production workflows. Familiarity with AI video generation, editing tools, or automated post-production techniques is strongly preferred.

Nice To Haves

• EdTech or language-learning content experience
• Familiarity with multi-language production (managing script supervisors, cultural nuance across language pairs

Responsibilities

• Oversee Execution of Creative Style — Implement and maintain a cohesive creative style through operational oversight, collaborating on studio, editing, and hiring changes that ensure quality control while documenting standards in a comprehensive style guide.
• Oversee Shoots with Production Management Expertise — Attend shoots to provide strategic oversight and creative direction, empowering the studio team on day-to-day tasks while intervening on critical decisions related to vision and on-screen quality.
• Build a Repeatable Creative Playbook and Foster Team Growth — Document creative standards, workflows, and quality checklists to enable independent execution, building systems that increase output velocity and streamline collaboration while partnering with post-production to ensure edits, pacing, graphics, and sound align with creative vision.
• Introduce AI-Enhanced Production Workflows — Identify and pilot AI tools that improve efficiency or creative output, focusing on post-production tools, video generation platforms, and AI-assisted editing while understanding when AI enhances versus compromises quality and documenting recommendations with tested tools and workflows.

Benefits

• Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
• Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
• Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, and Tokyo, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
• Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.

What This Job Offers

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