FiveThirtyEight is hiring a full-time temporary video producer

FiveThirtyEight is looking for a temporary video producer to join our full-time team from mid-July to mid-November. This person will propose, storyboard, and edit videos on US politics, playing an important role in our coverage of the 2022 midterm elections.

The video producer will report and work with the senior video producer to direct and edit a short-format video series that offers our audiences a deeper and more informed understanding of American political data. They will also be responsible for editing the video version of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, which comes out twice a week. During the primary, the second weekly episode is often filmed on the Tuesday night after the election results arrive, so the video producer must be available to work with shifted schedules, sometimes, which will include a few late nights.

The video producer will work closely with the rest of the FiveThirtyEight video team; FiveThirtyEight journalists, visual journalists and copy editors; and the graphics team of ABC News Digital. This is a U.S.-based position and the work can be done remotely or outside our New York City office. Applicants should be able to work 40 hours per week on an Eastern Time Zone schedule. To apply, send a resume and two clips by Sunday 19 June to anna.rothschild@abc.com with the subject “Temporary Video Producer”.

Basic qualifications:

  • Expertise in Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Script and storyboard skills
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
  • Experience with multi-cam editing
  • Ability to communicate on visual style and to provide constructive and thoughtful feedback to animators and other collaborators
  • Solid news judgment
  • General knowledge and interest in US electoral politics
  • Interest in data journalism

Preferred qualifications:

  • Work experience in an editorial office
  • Expertise in Adobe After Effects and Illustrator
  • Ability to light up a studio shot
  • Experiment with shooting with a Canon C300
  • Experience in directing a film crew from a distance
  • Experiment with editing a multi-guest video podcast