Videographer

The Characteristics

• Agile: You’re nimble. You’re adaptable. You thrive in an environment where priorities can change in an instant.
• Analytical: Your decisions are driven by only one thing: data. You continue to master all the tools necessary to surface insights.
• Collaborative: You enjoy purposeful meetings. You value the contributions and perspectives of your colleagues as much as you do your CEO.  
• Curious: You’re eager to learn new concepts and master new skills. There’s no useless tool in your arsenal.
• Disciplined: You never allow the details to slip, understanding that every bit of minutiae forms the bigger picture. 
• Enthusiastic: You exhibit a contagious passion for visual storytelling, creating cinematic moments that will never be forgotten. 
• Innovative: You develop new approaches to complex problems. 
• Perfectionist: You persist until the smallest detail has been optimized. Knows nothing less than 100%. 
• Persistent: You’ve never failed. You’ve only experienced speed bumps on your path to success.
• Reliable: You live up to both verbal and written agreements. You can be trusted to work effectively, without oversight. 

The Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Shoot and edit video projects to specified briefs with minimal supervision.
  • In some cases, our primary editor will handle 100% editorial, but not all cases.
• Maintain and organize video gear in conjunction with the photo team in our shared studio space.
• Work across teams to accomplish content production as needed — in some cases, we will collaborate with members of other teams on specific projects.
• Work primarily on location at our Creative studio with some WFH days each week, depending on production needs.
  
  

• Turn briefs and scripts into storyboards, shotlists, and shooting schedules.
• Source and purchase props.
• Scout and secure shooting locations.
• Facilitate the rental or purchase of production equipment — lights, lenses, stands, anything else the shoot demands.
• Coordinate shooting schedules when the Creative Strategist needs hands.

• Lighting scenes — properly, not "the room has windows."
• Audio capture, with levels actually monitored.
• Video capture across whatever camera system the project calls for.
• Art direction on your own shoots.
• Organize and back up footage before you leave the building. 
• Store, and maintain gear during and after each shoot. The studio is shared with the Photo team — leave it better than you found it.

• Edit from the selects stage through to fine cut.
• Perform basic grading and mastering.
• Perform basic sound editing and mixing.
• Hand off advanced work — 2D and 3D animation, compositing, sweetened post audio — to the team members who specialize in it. Those competencies are evaluated and assigned per project. Stay in your lane and your lane will be excellent.

• Shoot and edit video projects to specified briefs with minimal supervision. Some projects, our primary editor will own 100% of the cut and you'll deliver selects. Some projects, the entire pipeline is yours. The split changes by project — the bar doesn't.
• Maintain and organize video gear in conjunction with the photo team in the shared studio space.
• Collaborate across teams on content production as needed. Other departments will pull you in. Be useful.

• Five years of experience minimum — freelance and film-school work counts; your cousin’s wedding does not.
• A driver’s license, the ability to actually drive, and reliable access to a car. Gear doesn’t load itself onto the TTC.
• Working fluency with prosumer and professional camera systems: Blackmagic, Canon, Sony, RED, et al. We don’t care which body you swear by; we care that you can pick up any of them and not embarrass yourself.
• Comfort with a real lens and support kit: probe lenses, motion control sliders, remote follow focus, the works.
• Modern lighting systems: Kino flo, Aputure, Astera - anything you can name and rig before lunch.
• An actual understanding of film, video, and photography lighting and grip gear — plus an appreciation for film as an art form, not just a job site.
• Audio capture chops: Rode, Sennheiser, Zoom, sync workflows, and the discipline to actually monitor your levels.
• Adobe Suite core competency: Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator. Not “I watched a Youtube tutorial.” Like actual working competency.
• Working knowledge of colour correction and post-filtration: Lumetri, Colorista, DaVinci Resolve.
• Familiarity with cinematic, commercial, and social-media cutting techniques. The pacing of a 30-second pre-roll is not the pacing of a 15-second TikTok, and you know why.
• Comfort with codecs, compression schemes, aspect ratios, and the unglamorous logistics of footage capture, organization, and archive.
• Basic motion graphics, titling, captioning, and transitions. Nothing fancy — just enough to ship without flagging the animation team.
• The ability to act as Art Director or Stylist on your own projects.
• An impeccable communication style — your grasp on the English language is flawless.
• Bonus: working hands in 3D software (Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D). We don’t need you to be a 3D Artist. We do appreciate when our shooters can speak the language. 

The Moment of Truth