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Editor / Shoot Director

New Posted 21 September 2023 | New York, NY | Jellyfish

You’ll be our go-to in-house content creator/photographer and DP across a variety of Jellyfish clients, primarily focused on social delivery. You’re a skilled shooter adept at working with creative teams and production to develop best in class photo and video assets for our clients.

Partnering with your account producer and creative teams, you’ll be responsible for helping develop shoot plans to execute the creative vision, including having a clear vision of casting, equipment, locations and crew.

You’re used to being on set, making clients, talent and real people feel at ease in a shoot environment to deliver the highest level of content. Ideally, you are an idealist who can help stretch a shoot day to get as much content possible for our teams while retaining creative integrity.

When not on set, you will be responsible for creating video content from raw footage or supplied masters suitable for organic and paid social media to reach the vision and ambition of our clients and internal creative team. This will include creating and adapting motion graphics.

You will provide post-production experience and, knowledge and technical proficiency in our growing creative & experience production team. You will have a key eye for detail, and by collaborating with our producers, you’ll ensure the seamless delivery of projects that meet our clients’ creative ambition, production values, and commercial targets.

Additional Requirements:

- Can independently complete tasks

- Demonstrate a solution-focused approach to your work

- Capable of multitasking across projects and teams

- Understands the breadth of Jellyfish’s capabilities and what they do

- Adept at working with other teams, skillsets and clients alike.

- Manage your workload efficiently, proactively suggesting solutions to challenging project demands

- Understand and are able to discuss the strategy of the team

- Proactively seek to improve team morale and motivation and inspire the best in others

- Understand the breadth of skills and competencies across the team and your skill gaps so you can plan your personal development and growth within the capability

Qualifications

Knowledge and skills:

3 - 5 years of professional experience in an agency or related industry with beauty experience
Still and model photography and video direction
Technical proficiency across a range of photo and tech equipment
Ability to plan equipment lists based on shoot needs
Skilled at directing stills and video to creative brief
Exceptional at working with talent and clients
Has a network of freelance crew they love to work with
Technical proficiency with video editing/motion graphics systems
Expertise in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator
Excellent understanding of video compression and optimization for web video
Be up to date with the latest trends in organic social and paid social
Strong attention to detail
Perform quality assurance on all video footage
Ability to work well under pressure with a flexible, creative attitude
Can work to tight deadlines and extremely well organized
A passion for outputting high-quality work
Ability to work as part of a team
Good communication and a passion for collaboration
Understanding the demands that come with working with Global brands
Reflect the agency’s values and culture at all times
Share your experience/knowledge to develop the skills of the wider team
Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Methodical, proactive self-starter with an eye for detail


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