Video Post Production Lead

Video Post Production Lead – Remote

Location: US National

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Video Post Production Lead on the Brand Creative team.

Why join Sprout’s Brand Creative team?

When you join Sprout’s Brand Creative team, you’ll play an integral role in driving positive business outcomes through empathetic storytelling and strategic, creative problem solving. As a team composed of multidisciplinary designers, illustrators, animators, copywriters, video producers, researchers and developers, we craft and build resources and materials that bring Sprout’s brand identity and messaging to life—always ensuring every customer experience is up to our high standards of quality, usability, authenticity and inclusivity. We’re continually looking for opportunities to push our capabilities, innovate on our approaches and deepen our impact on the company’s overall success. Not only will you grow in your respective creative discipline, but also in your skills and ability to speak the different languages of your peers from other departments—making you a more versatile and effective creative.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with revenue and marketing partners to understand, support and ideate creative post solutions backed by business strategy and need.
• Perform and lead others through duties within the full range of post production process, editing, color grading, sound mixing, application of motion graphics and basic animation.
• Develop and maintain Sprout video post-production and delivery standards across all production styles including but not limited to animation, motion graphics, stock+motion, narrative/live action and demos.
• Stay abreast of changing industry standards, trends, techniques and technology while implementing developments into brand post production and animation standards.
• Work closely with broader creative team and project Art Directors throughout the creation and articulation of visual design, graphic and animatic needs for any given production
• Partner with Creative Operations and Sr. Manager, Video Production on post-production timelines and addressing contractor support for productions as needed
• Internal point of contact for external editors, animators, motion graphics artists and sound designers fielding any technical questions and managing footage and project file sharing.
• Lead post-production on Sprout’s tentpole video production initiatives, owning projects and overseeing freelance contributors as required.
• Partner with Sr. Manager, Video Production to create learning opportunities for associate and mid level video team members to develop and grow editing/motion/animation skills.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for a Post Production lead with a deep understanding of the technical skill sets required for post production. Including but not limited to editing, animation, motion graphics, color, sound design, voice over and music supervision/composition. A successful Post Production Lead will act as a creative partner to Creative Leads, Video Producers, Directors, Writers and Art Directors offering creative solutions, ideation and discussion across a variety of video deliverables. You will collaborate with strategic marketing partners to find the best creative solutions for our business needs while pushing the capabilities of our brand through video.

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• 7+ years experience in video post production
• 5+ years executional expertise in a minimum of one area of post production (video editing, motion design, 2d/3d animation)
• Post-Production video portfolio required
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience developing brand post production standards and deliverables

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• Understanding of various media formats including resolution, size, and video frame rates
• Experience working on/providing direction on sound design and mixing
• Experience working on/providing direction on color correction, Lumetri and Davinci Resolve
• Experience working with Figma, Motion Array, Asana
• Experience working within and maintaining internal video/photo archival and digital asset management system

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:

• Attend Sprout social training to learn the ins and outs of the product and better understand the value that Sprout delivers to our customers
• Get to know everyone across the Brand Creative team and critical leaders/stakeholders in Marketing
• Start to familiarize yourself with Sprout’s brand story and family of products
• Attend stand-ups, project kick-offs, concept brainstorms with the Brand Creative team and our partners

Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Work closely with creative leads and stakeholders to kick off creative projects, begin contributing to brainstorms/motion concepting
• Work closely with Creative Leads, Sr. Manager Video Production, Producers and Directors on a broad spectrum of video projects
• Gain a good understanding of the Sprout customer and their needs and how compelling storytelling can help solve their problems
• Work in partnership with Video Producers and Directors to edit and lead post production deliverables
• Partner with Sr. Manager, Video Production and Creative Operations to manage and forecast post production timelines

Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:

• Lead post-production on projects from inception to completion with limited supervision
• Successfully run meetings and presentations with our partners by discussing a project’s key objectives, creative direction and video post-production process.
• Be comfortable and proactive about working with the rest of the Brand Creative team to push the creativity of our storytelling and overall brand
• Elevate our motion graphics and animation strategies towards becoming a leader in the SaaS industry
• Host workshops and tutorials to share any tips and techniques that may help the collective team grow or improve processes and skill sets

Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:

• Maintain brand integrity while advancing creativity within the context of project execution and development
• Be entirely at home as a critical member of the Brand Creative team and company with a deep understanding of the stakeholders needs
• Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change Sprout in beneficial ways we haven’t even considered yet

Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

The base pay range for this role is $99,500.00 to $149,300.00 USD annually. Individual base pay is based on various factors, including relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In addition to base pay, some Sales and Success roles can earn sales incentives.

Sprout’s compensation ranges are intentionally broad to allow for our team members’ growth within their role. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employee’s total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit). Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.