Video Lead, Video & Animation - Contractor

Accountabilities

• • Support the video function during a five-month temporary coverage period, ensuring priority projects continue progressing from intake through final delivery.
  • Manage day-to-day video project coordination across Brand Marketing, Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Events, Enablement, and other internal teams.
  • Scope incoming video requests by clarifying objectives, audiences, deliverables, timelines, priorities, and resource requirements.
  • Build and manage production schedules, track milestones, coordinate stakeholders, and identify potential delays, risks, or resourcing tradeoffs.
  • Oversee end-to-end production for a wide range of projects, including brand videos, product marketing content, paid and social cutdowns, internal communications, event content, demonstrations, and customer stories.
  • Partner with creative and brand stakeholders to ensure video content is polished, consistent, accurate, and aligned with established creative direction.
  • Coordinate external video, motion, animation, and production partners by providing briefs, assets, feedback, timelines, specifications, and other production requirements.
  • Review scripts, storyboards, rough cuts, motion graphics, captions, and final exports for storytelling quality, clarity, accuracy, pacing, and visual consistency.
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback to editors, animators, vendors, and internal collaborators throughout production and review cycles.
  • Support light post-production activities, including pulling selects, creating simple cutdowns, captioning, versioning, export preparation, and final asset organization.
  • Adapt existing video assets for different formats, audiences, platforms, and marketing channels.
  • Support occasional in-person production activities in the San Francisco Bay Area, including shoot preparation, shot lists, vendor coordination, stakeholder communication, and on-site production.
  • Maintain organized project files, asset folders, feedback threads, production documentation, and handoff notes to ensure visibility and continuity across the team.
  • Contribute to a collaborative, flexible, and solutions-oriented creative culture while maintaining high standards for quality and execution.

  Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience in video production, creative production, branded content, post-production, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated experience managing video projects from initial brief through final delivery in a brand, agency, in-house creative, technology, SaaS, or marketing environment.
  • Strong understanding of complete video production and post-production workflows, including pre-production, production, editing, review cycles, versioning, captioning, exports, and final delivery.
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple timelines, stakeholders, feedback rounds, and deliverables simultaneously.
  • Strong creative judgment across storytelling, pacing, visuals, music, motion, captions, and overall production quality.
  • Ability to provide precise, constructive, and actionable feedback to creative partners, editors, animators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
  • Experience coordinating external production, animation, motion design, or freelance creative partners.
  • Hands-on familiarity with video and creative tools, particularly Adobe Premiere Pro, Frame.io, Figma, Google Drive, Slack, and project management platforms such as Asana.
  • Basic editing and post-production capabilities, with the ability to handle simple cutdowns, selects, captions, versioning, and exports when required.
  • Excellent communication, organization, prioritization, and follow-through skills, with the ability to keep projects moving independently.
  • Collaborative, flexible, low-ego approach and comfort working in a fast-paced, creatively driven marketing environment.
  • Local presence in the San Francisco Bay Area is preferred, or the ability to participate in occasional local production activities.
  • Experience with B2B technology, SaaS, developer tools, product marketing, or complex technical storytelling is a plus.
  • Familiarity with After Effects, Figma-based motion or design handoffs, and AI-assisted video tools is a plus.
  • Strong adaptability and willingness to work through changing priorities while maintaining a positive, solutions-focused mindset.

  Benefits

  • Five-month full-time contract opportunity within a collaborative Brand Marketing and Creative & Design environment.
  • Remote work opportunity for candidates based in the United States.
  • Opportunity to lead a diverse portfolio of high-visibility video and animation projects.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams spanning marketing, product, demand generation, events, enablement, and brand.
  • Opportunity to work with external production, motion, animation, and creative partners.
  • Exposure to B2B technology, SaaS, product marketing, and technical storytelling.
  • Opportunity to contribute to a creative environment that values curiosity, diverse perspectives, innovation, and authentic collaboration.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process for qualified candidates with disabilities.
  • Candidates may be subject to a background check as part of the hiring process, where permitted by applicable law.