Video Producer

PlanetScale • San Francisco, CA

10d • $140,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

PlanetScale is seeking a Video Producer to own the hands-on video production for the company. This role is crucial for connecting with developers, customers, and the broader technical community through video content. The ideal candidate will have a strong creative vision and the technical skills to manage video projects from concept to completion. You will be responsible for creating a variety of video content, including customer stories, product launches, event coverage, executive content, and YouTube videos, ensuring all content aligns with PlanetScale's brand and quality standards. This is a highly hands-on, individual contributor role for someone who can lead creatively and execute independently.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio showing range across polished narrative work, quick-turn edits, social cuts, and/or short-form video.
• Demonstrated experience filming, directing, and editing projects end to end as an individual contributor.
• Strong editing skills in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, or equivalent.
• Experience shooting on location, including interviews, with the ability to handle your own lighting and audio.
• Motion graphics and animation ability, with good judgment for when those tools make the story clearer or the video stronger.
• Strong project management skills, including planning shoots, managing footage, organizing feedback, and delivering on deadlines.
• Willingness and ability to travel for shoots at events and customer sites.
• Must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the expectation to work from the San Francisco office when needed.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, databases, or another engineering-focused space.
• Experience producing content for YouTube, social, or a public creative channel where you developed a strong sense of audience and format.
• Experience filming and interviewing executives, engineers, customers, or technical subject-matter experts.
• 3D or advanced animation ability in Blender, After Effects, or similar.
• Comfort using AI tools across the creative and production workflow, and curiosity about what they make newly possible.

Responsibilities

• Own PlanetScale's video program across customer stories, product launches, in-person events, executive content, YouTube, shorts, and other formats.
• Set the creative bar for video, focusing on story, pacing, visuals, sound, and detail to ensure all content is sharp, intentional, and distinctly PlanetScale.
• Find and shape narratives within technical subject matter into engaging video content.
• Film on location at customer offices, conferences, events, and the San Francisco office, managing camera, lighting, audio, and direction.
• Edit long-form YouTube videos, launch assets, event recaps, social clips, and shorts with a strong sense of rhythm, structure, and audience.
• Own post-production, including pacing, sound design, color, motion graphics, animation, and final polish.
• Build and manage a lean production pipeline, including gear, scheduling, shot planning, footage organization, stakeholder reviews, and delivery.
• Operate as a highly hands-on individual contributor, setting creative direction and executing production.
• Move quickly while protecting quality, adapting to varying production demands week to week.

Benefits

• Base salary range: $140,000 – $200,000 USD
• Total compensation consists of base salary + benefits + equity.

What This Job Offers

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