Acquisition.com

Director of Post-Production

Acquisition.com

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Las Vegas • Nevada • United States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $175,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead the post-production department across all brands, including long-form series, podcasts, DTCs, and social cutdowns
  • Manage and develop a team of editors, sound designers, and packaging specialists
  • Set expectations, performance standards, and quality benchmarks across the entire post pipeline
  • Build a culture of speed, precision, accountability, and continuous improvement
  • Build and enforce standardized post workflows that reduce errors, missed deadlines, and revision cycles
  • Own all post-production scheduling, throughput planning, and delivery timelines across all brands
  • Create clear intake systems so production teams can hand off footage cleanly and consistently
  • Maintain visibility into production calendars and ensure post resourcing is planned weeks in advance
  • Coordinate directly with Creative Producers, Director of Content, and production teams to ensure post execution matches creative intent
  • Identify, test, and implement AI tools that materially increase editing speed and output quality
  • Partner with Tech team to build AI-driven systems for captioning, transcription, rough cuts, sound cleanup, b-roll search, versioning, and repurposing
  • Establish clear AI usage expectations for editors and post team members
  • Ensure AI is integrated without compromising quality, taste, or brand consistency
  • Own the final output quality across all long-form and short-form content
  • Ensure editing style, pacing, sound design, and storytelling standards match the creative direction of each brand
  • Reduce creative drift by building clear post playbooks and review standards
  • Maintain a consistent high quality bar even as the team scales
  • Build systems that shorten turnaround time and increase weekly publishing volume
  • Reduce dependency on external post vendors by building internal capacity and quality
  • Track editing velocity, revision cycles, delivery reliability, and post bottlenecks
  • Ensure post-production is scalable enough to support multiple episodic series simultaneously

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in post-production leadership within digital media, entertainment, or high-volume content environments
  • Proven experience managing a multi-editor team producing high-volume content on deadlines
  • Deep understanding of long-form editing, short-form editing, audio finishing, and modern post workflows
  • Strong operational instincts - you understand how to build systems, not just manage creative output
  • High taste level and strong judgment for pacing, storytelling, and audience retention
  • Experience working with YouTube-first content is a major plus
  • Strong familiarity with AI tools in post-production (or demonstrated obsession with learning and implementing them)
  • Comfortable with project management systems (Monday.com preferred) and pipeline tracking
  • Ability to lead under pressure, maintain quality at scale, and eliminate chaos through structure
  • Must be willing to aggressively experiment, test workflows, and build an AI-native post culture
Benefits
  • Flexible Unlimited Paid Time Off and Company-wide Holidays
  • Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, & Vision plans
  • $1,950 annual Employer HSA contribution
  • FSA options including dependent care
  • Employee assistance program and mental health resources
  • Employer match program for 401(k), eligible for both Traditional and Roth accounts
  • $1,200 annual wellness reimbursement through JOON that supports health, family care, pet care, fitness, and more!
  • For local or visiting team members, enjoy access to a state of the art gym at our HQ in Las Vegas
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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