About the position
Vox candidly shepherds audiences through politics and policy, business and pop culture, food, science, and everything else that matters. Vox is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible. As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships. Vox is looking for a producer to join our award-winning video team to focus on creating vertical videos, which will live on social platforms and our website. This person will play a key role in creating innovative shortform, vertical videos for Vox that help us engage with audiences in new ways off-platform, while still staying true to Vox's explanatory mission. The right candidate is a creative thinker who wants to experiment with new storytelling formats. They should be deeply immersed in shortform video culture and trends and be able to identify new ways for Vox to engage on video platforms like Tiktok, Instagram, and Youtube Shorts. They will monitor news happenings and platform trends, as well as what's in the works across the newsroom, and proactively identify opportunities to partner with different Vox journalists to make quick-turn vertical videos in a variety of formats. This person will not just execute on assignments, but pitch ideas and help shape what vertical shortform video can look like at Vox. And most importantly, they'll have fun! We want someone who's not afraid to try new things and learn from them. There are many ways to do an explainer, and this is a role that will require innovation and fresh ideas. This is a hybrid role that will require some in-office work, based in either New York or Washington, DC, where Vox has offices.
Responsibilities
- Create and edit a steady stream of short-form vertical videos for TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, and beyond, creating several quick-turn videos a week
- Own the full video process: pitch ideas, record, edit, add captions, occasionally add graphics if needed, optimize for each platform, and hit publish.
- Work with journalists from across our newsroom to turn our journalism into smart, timely videos
- Turn around videos quickly when news breaks, and help shape stories that are made for vertical video platforms
- Occasionally jump on camera when it makes sense, bringing your own voice and personality to videos.
- Monitor analytics, using performance data to learn what's working (and what's not) so we're learning as we experiment with different formats and approaches
- Handle multiple projects without dropping the ball; this role will require strong organizational skills
- Maintain a loose calendar / pipeline of shortform vertical videos in the pipeline, working with editorial leaders to identify opportunities for videos with our journalists during major news moments
Requirements
- Experience producing and editing shortform vertical videos for platforms such as Tiktok, Instagram Reels, and Youtube Shorts, preferably on newsy topics
- Strong skills in Adobe creative suite (Premiere, AfterEffects, Illustrator)
- Familiarity with vertical video editing tools such as Capcut, Descript
- Awareness of trends on Instagram, Tiktok, and Youtube Shorts
- Deep familiarity with creator video landscape
- Passion for news and Vox's mission
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees
- Permanent, full-time position
- Benefits-eligible
- Part of the Vox Media Union, represented by the Writers Guild of America, East
