About the Role
Our client is a fast-growing digital media company producing high-volume video content across multiple platforms. They are seeking an experienced Post Production Supervisor to lead their post production team, manage edit workflows end-to-end, and ensure every piece of content is delivered on time, on brand, and at the highest quality.
This is a key operational and creative leadership role. The successful candidate will work closely with the Operations, Creative, and Leadership teams: building systems, managing people, and keeping a complex content pipeline moving.
Team & Workflow Management
- Manage the full post production team: staff editors, freelance editors, assistant editors, a post production coordinator, and GFX designers as well as color, finishing, and sound mix vendors
- Assign edits to editors based on capacity and fit: coordinate freelance and vendor bookings when needed by submitting booking requests to the COO
- Create and maintain edit timelines and milestones for each project. Ensure deadlines are met across the board
- Ensure each editor has a video treatment before starting and facilitate kick-off calls with creative leads when needed
- Monitor each edit through the entire lifecycle flagging when notes are delayed, timelines slip, or creative direction shifts require a schedule revision
- Hold regular team meetings to track workload, address challenges, and surface department concerns to leadership
- Attend weekly cross-departmental meetings to provide post production perspective on upcoming shoots and releases
Content Delivery & Quality
- Ensure all videos are properly sound-mixed, color finished, QC'd, and uploaded to the correct platform ahead of release
- Oversee and co-manage the company's Airtable system to track edits, brand sponsorships, merchandise/promotional throws, and series trailers
- Ensure all sponsorship integrations, promo throws, and series trailers are edited in and uploaded by their required deadlines
- Publish video content to all company platforms alongside the coordinator and assistant editors. Ensure coverage is scheduled during any team absences
Infrastructure & Operations
- Manage all in-house post production equipment including editing bays and the server. Alert Operations when equipment needs replacement and research/recommend upgrades
- Manage all data and video storage on the company server. Proactively advise on storage and archive solutions.
- Onboard post production team members to all relevant platforms: music library, stock footage library, email/Slack groups, and Airtable
- Give initial approval on post team PTO and appointment requests before final COO sign-off
- Troubleshoot technical issues for the post team; escalate to IT vendor via COO when needed
What Our Client Is Looking For
- Prior experience in a post production supervisor, coordinator, or senior editorial role at a TV, film, digital media, or production company. Digital media experience or in-depth knowledge of the field will be highly prioritized.
- Track record of managing a post production team
- Editorial experience across digital, film, commercial, or TV content
- Excellent communicator. Comfortable training others, running meetings, and working cross-functionally
- Highly organized with a strong handle on scheduling, prioritization, and deadline management
- Proficient in Premiere Pro, Adobe Suite, and standard post production editorial workflows
- Familiarity with Airtable or similar project tracking tools
- Ability to incorporate on-screen GFX and stock imagery in a fast-paced content environment
- If remote: access to a full edit bay with Premiere Pro
Location & Schedule
Our client offers a hybrid office/work-from-home model. Schedule and in-office expectations are set by the department head.
Requirements
How to Apply: One Required Step
We manage a high volume of applications on behalf of our client. To help identify candidates who are the right fit, we ask all applicants to complete the following short task as part of their application. Applications without a response to this task will not be reviewed.
The Task:
A video was originally scheduled to publish next Tuesday at noon. It's currently Thursday afternoon. Here's the situation:
- The editor just flagged that the assigned creative lead hasn't returned notes on the rough cut. The cut has been sitting for 3 days
- The video includes a brand integration that the sponsor requires be reviewed and approved by them before upload. That approval process takes 48 hours once submitted
- Sound mix and color finishing are each a half-day turn once picture is locked
In 150 words or fewer: What do you do right now? Walk us through the specific actions you'd take and in what order.
Paste your response directly into the application's cover letter field. There is no right or wrong format. We're evaluating how you think through a real post production crunch scenario.
