Help Us Build What Comes Next
Bathing Brands is growing a portfolio of leading sauna, steam, and wellness brands, including SaunaLife, FINSAUNA, Prosaunas, Finnmark Designs, World Sauna Group, and Bathing Brands.
We are looking for a filming-first Video Producer & Videographer who can turn complex product builds, demonstrations, and lifestyle concepts into clear, visually compelling footage.
This role is primarily focused on filming and production. While editing knowledge is required, the successful candidate will spend most of their time planning shoots, capturing footage, directing talent, and producing content in the field rather than sitting behind a computer editing video.
This is not a desk-bound editing role. You will work behind the camera, direct talent, collaborate with builders and product experts, and solve production challenges in real time. You will lead filming while partnering with an experienced internal editor who will own most post-production and final delivery.
Strong editing knowledge is essential, but your primary responsibility will be filming, directing talent, and delivering complete, organized, edit-ready footage.
You'll spend time in active construction environments, showrooms, production spaces, and lifestyle settings, capturing content that helps customers understand and experience our products.
Please Note Important Requirements:
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A portfolio or demo reel is required and must be submitted with your application.
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You must be able to report to our Wheeling, IL office on a weekly basis, hybrid schedule available.
What You’ll Do
Lead Video Production
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Film monthly SaunaLife and FINSAUNA sauna builds from initial construction through the finished product
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Capture critical installation steps, product details, transitions, supporting B-roll, and final reveal footage
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Film product demonstrations, walk-arounds, interviews, lifestyle scenes, and other brand content
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Make confident, creative, and technical decisions when schedules, build sequences, and filming conditions change
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Maintain visual continuity across stops, starts, corrections, and occasional rebuilds
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Deliver technically strong, visually consistent footage that supports an efficient editing process
Direct Talent and Bring Concepts to Life
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Direct professional talent, employees, customers, influencers, and other on-camera participants
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Help nonprofessional talent feel comfortable, natural, and credible on camera
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Translate storyboards, shot lists, and creative concepts into engaging visual content
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Provide direction on movement, delivery, product interaction, and positioning
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Collaborate with the creative team to develop relatable lifestyle scenes in controlled and real-world environments
Plan and Manage Shoots
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Partner with marketing, creative, project management, builders, and product experts to prepare for production
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Develop practical shot lists and filming plans based on the product and intended deliverables
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Anticipate critical construction and installation milestones to ensure important footage is never missed.
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Organize, label, back up, and transfer footage for the internal editor
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Maintain video, lighting, and audio equipment
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Help establish repeatable filming standards and more efficient production workflows
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Contribute to future recommendations for studio, equipment, and production needs
Support an Integrated Production Team
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Work closely with the internal editor to ensure strong coverage, continuity, and supporting footage
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Capture each project with pacing, transitions, and final assembly in mind
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Complete selects, rough assemblies, simple edits, or quick social cutdowns when needed
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Coordinate with the company photographer to maximize shared production days and produce complementary photo and video assets
What You Bring
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4–6 years of professional video production experience
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A strong portfolio featuring commercial, product, lifestyle, process-driven, or branded content
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Advanced camera operation, composition, lighting, and audio-capture skills
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Experience directing talent, including people who are not professional performers
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The ability to document complex, step-by-step processes clearly
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Strong working knowledge of editing and post-production workflows
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Experience organizing and handing off footage to another editor
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The confidence to work independently and solve production challenges onsite
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Strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills
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Availability to work primarily onsite in Wheeling, Illinois, with occasional offsite production and travel (5 – 10%)
Experience That Would Set You Apart
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Agency, commercial-production, or in-house consumer-brand experience
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Experience filming construction, installation, manufacturing, home improvement, or other process-heavy content
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Background in lifestyle, wellness, fitness, home, or premium consumer products
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Familiarity with vertical video, Reels, Shorts, and other social-first formats
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Experience with motion graphics, color correction, audio cleanup, and captioning
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Experience working within a shared model where filming and editing are owned by different team members
What Success Looks Like
In your first six months, you will help us:
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Establish a reliable monthly filming workflow for sauna build content
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Improve the completeness, consistency, and visual quality of footage
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Increase our ability to create lifestyle and talent-led brand content
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Build a more controlled and repeatable internal production system
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Expand video output across product education, reseller training, websites, social media, and brand campaigns
About Bathing Brands
Bathing Brands is a portfolio of companies and consumer brands serving the growing sauna, steam, and wellness market across North America. Our work spans product distribution, dealer and e-tailer support, consumer education, and the development of proprietary brands designed to help more people experience the benefits of sauna and thermal wellness.
To apply, please submit your résumé and a portfolio or reel that demonstrates your filming, visual storytelling, and talent-direction capabilities.
