Visuals Producer, Social Video

KQED • San Francisco, CA

1d • $94,860 - $112,469 • Hybrid

About The Position

KQED is seeking a visuals producer to create videos and graphics for its news social channels, including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. This role involves working closely with the social video producer and the news department’s audience engagement team, as well as collaborating with award-winning photographers and reporters. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of visual journalism, graphic design, and social media experience to translate journalism into compelling visual stories for platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. The producer will be responsible for making news informative and engaging, and for bringing journalism and essential resources to new audiences on social media. The Social Video-Visuals Producer is a visual journalist skilled in creating videos for social platforms, transforming news stories into memorable vertical videos through a collaborative process with journalists. This producer handles video creation from ideation, scripting, shooting, editing, to publishing, working closely with newsroom colleagues. A love for the Bay Area and a passion for telling its unique stories, both in the field and in editing, are essential. Adherence to journalism ethics, including fair and accurate storytelling on social platforms, is a must. KQED is committed to a culture of human dignity, equity, and belonging, aiming to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling. The organization values the contributions of marginalized communities and encourages members of these communities to apply.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and writing skills; ability to write quickly and accurately, with an understanding of tone and style across platforms
• Familiarity with graphic design, Canva, Photoshop, Premiere, Adobe, Google Drive, Slack
• Experience editing photos for news publications.
• Experience taking a story and writing succinct scripts for social media
• Experience writing text and captions for social media posts
• Some video editing experience
• Advanced knowledge of YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok
• Knowledge and interest in current events
• Writes text with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Ability to meet deadlines and goals while working under pressure
• Ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks when working on multiple projects at once
• Interest and knowledge in Bay Area news with a focus on local communities
• Checks work before publication and maintains adherence to facts
• Adherence to copyright laws; understanding of media licensing agreements
• Clear communication with colleagues
• Ability to stay focused, organized, communicative and proactive — you’ll be working with a number of journalists or staffers across the organization, potentially dealing with several different editors
• Minimum of five years’ experience as Producer or Field Producer in media, preferably public media or through other informal institutions.
• Published examples of digital video production and/or other forms of digital storytelling
• Ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively with the KQED News team—strong interpersonal and communications skills preferred
• Proven ability to edit, with limited supervision, short format engagement videos or longer-form documentary style segments. Attention to detail and experience in fact checking preferred.
• Proficient at utilizing the entire Adobe Creative Suite with an emphasis on Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Ability to independently problem-solve and adapt quickly to news cycles, formats and styles.
• Experience troubleshooting edit issues, transcoding media, performing minor color correcting and media archiving.
• Proven ability to engage in high-level writing, research, or production on original and creative topics for story development. Ability to write or co-write short format texts with factual integrity that move, surprise, dazzle and engage.
• Proven ability to set up, light, record audio and shoot video for short format style segments in quick turnaround situations.
• Experience with a wide range of cameras, lenses and related equipment.
• Experience with social media and web distribution.
• Knowledge of basic journalistic editorial principles, ethics and standards.
• A passion for producing digital media and demonstrable experience covering the Bay Area.
• Demonstrable collaboration skills and experience cultivating sources and partnerships.
• Ability to represent KQED to the broader Bay Area community, other institutions, and the general public.

Nice To Haves

• A compelling visual style and personal voice.
• Expertise in making digital videos.
• Expertise in social media.
• Expertise as a still photographer.
• Experienced with web publishing and CMS systems (WordPress preferred).
• B.A./B.S. degree.
• Familiarity with After Effects
• Experience creating infographics or data visualizations
• Comfortable being on camera

Responsibilities

• Planning and shooting video coverage of events in the Bay Area
• Creating short form social videos on news and feature stories in the Bay Area
• Strategizing new forms of visual content that will bring KQED reporting to a wider audience
• Designing graphics for social platforms (such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube) that provide valuable information and resources to communities in the Bay Area
• Keeping aware of news photo shoots, posting photo carousels, and writing captions for Instagram
• Work with reporters to create and execute a visual social strategy for their stories

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree