Social Video Producer

ProPublica

Social Video Producer creating short-form video content for ProPublica’s social platforms, expanding audience engagement through visual storytelling. Collaborating with journalists to adapt investigative stories.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $90,000 - $105,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create video content that is grounded in ethical journalistic principles, standards and practices, and use editorial judgment to translate stories with the sensitivity, care and appropriate tone required of our investigations.
Collaborate with reporters, editors, visual editors, audience team members and other staffers to identify and produce compelling video storytelling.
Own the creative and technical production for videos from beginning to end, including writing and editing scripts, working with reporters and editors to gather visual assets, designing any as-needed still and motion graphics, and writing the social post captions.
Serve as the on-screen narrator/host for videos, maintaining a voice and approach for explainer-type and host-led video content that is appropriate for ProPublica’s brand.
Shoot and edit video in studio, remotely and in the field, ensuring high-quality production values.
Identify and edit compelling media clips for video podcasts, live events, media appearances and more and adapt them into optimized formats for social platforms.
Manage multiple projects in various stages of production, sometimes meeting tight deadlines.
Monitor the editorial calendar and pitch ideas for social video content and packages.
Define and maintain our workflow processes and systems to ensure a consistent production of video content.
Track monthly video analytics reports that can help inform future optimization, strategy and more.
Track evolving trends amid video platforms and their audiences and share insights with the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Three or more years of video journalism, content production and/or video editing experience.
Fluency telling stories for social platforms with text on screen, voice-overs, direct-to-camera or other methods.
Strong understanding of algorithmic trends and platform optimization strategies, including expertise in crafting effective video titles, thumbnails, descriptions and metadata to maximize reach and engagement across social platforms.
Experience conducting on-camera interviews and directing video subjects in person and remotely.
Proficiency in media production software (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut, Photoshop, Figma).
Strong writing and editing skills.
The ability to communicate social storytelling ideas through scripts or storyboards and advocate for projects with social potential across the newsroom.
Experience with project management software such as Trello, Airtable or Notion.
A collaborative mindset, stellar communication skills and the ability to work on several projects at once. You’ll need to stay organized and focused and meet deadlines.
Ability to travel, as needed, for assignments, training and staff meetings.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full time and includes benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

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Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationorganizational skillsproject managementcreativityattention to detailtime managementadvocacy for projectsadaptabilitystorytelling