Associate Video Producer

Forbes Research & Insights; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 62,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Forbes is seeking an Associate Video Producer in Jersey City to join the fast-paced video team. You’ll work with the Senior Editor to produce vodcasts, lists and live events, and help manage Forbes’ video library for organic, sponsored and custom campaigns.

You will drive end-to-end production, write and edit scripts, publish content across YouTube and Forbes.com, monitor analytics, and collaborate with newsroom and social teams. Hybrid/onsite in Jersey City, with travel to shoots as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience reporting and writing is required.
• Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro) experience.
• Hybrid work environment willingness and ability to put in extra hours during major news cycles.

Responsibilities

• Assist Senior Editor in booking guests for vodcasts and live events and prep.
• Stay updated on news and trends shaping business and society.
• Help produce Forbes lists with reporting, factchecking and writing.

Skills

Experience reporting and writing

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro)

Job description

Jersey City, NJ

Forbes is an iconic global media brand that has symbolized success for over a century. Fueled by journalism that informs and inspires, Forbes spotlights the doers and doings shaping industries, achieving success and making an impact on the world. Forbes connects and convenes the most influential communities ranging from billionaires, business leaders and rising entrepreneurs to creators and innovators. The Forbes brand reaches more than 140 million people monthly worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature ForbesLive events and 49 licensed local editions in 81 countries.

Forbes Media is seeking a detail-oriented and highly motivated Associate Video Producer to join our fast-paced video team. In this dynamic role, you will be working with Senior Anchor & Editor to produce vodcasts, lists and live events. You will also be a driving operational force behind short form video strategy, managing the Forbes video library to execute organic, sponsored and custom distribution campaigns. As a proactive "preditor" (producer/editor), you will also play a key role in the end-to-end production of our original programming, ensuring our content is optimized for a global audience.

Required to work in the Forbes office (Jersey City), at offsite Forbes events, or in studio five days per week, with travel to events and shoots as needed.

Candidates will be required to complete an editorial exercise as part of the interview process.

Responsibilities

• Assist Senior Editor in booking guests for vodcasts and live events, working directly with guest PR teams on logistics interview prep
• Stay up-to-date on the news cycle and be relentlessly curious about the trends, founders and executives shaping business, politics and society
• Help produce Forbes lists as directed by Senior Editor; tasks include reporting, factchecking and writing stories
• Assist in writing and producing newsletters as directed by Senior Editor
• As directed by Managing Producer and/or Director of Video, create video clips that narratively stand on their own, optimized for platform-specific distribution, using strong editorial judgment and deep knowledge of Forbes' content to ensure brand alignment
• Collaborate closely with all project stakeholders (including but not limited to video producers, sales leads, social strategists) to deliver on sponsored campaigns within a 24-hour turnaround
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive video archive that allows for fast repurposing of content for editorial, social, and sponsored use
• Publish all assigned content across Forbes YouTube channels, Forbes.com and additional third-party distribution platforms. Responsibilities include writing performance-optimized titles, descriptions, tags and creating thumbnails and playlists
• Regularly monitor analytics across platforms to provide actionable insights on audience retention and growth
• Support the podcast team by posting audio files to relevant distribution channels
• Assist production for Forbes summits and conferences. Lead post-production workflows to turn live event footage, backstage interviews and social content into polished digital assets
• Collaborate with the social strategy team to deliver assets for social-first projects
• Collaborate with video producers to source, research, outline and draft scripts for daily news hits and long-form features
• Collaborate with Forbes staff across departments including social, design, photo, SEO, the newsroom and more to facilitate and optimize video reporting opportunities
• Collaborate with the engineering team on video platform improvements by identifying technical issues, managing ticket workflows and collaborating with developers on feature enhancements
• Demonstrate total command of Forbes’ editorial standards and the 'Forbesian' voice, ensuring brand consistency across all video metadata, scripts and promotional copy

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience reporting and writing required
• Exceptional interpersonal skills for working with high-level executives, PR teams and external talent
• Exceptional time-management and prioritization abilities
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro)
• Comfortable in a hybrid work environment and willing to put in extra hours during major news cycles or flagship summits

This position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.

Salary

The annual base salary range for this role is $68,500.00

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith. The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate. In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so. Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions. We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes. Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

This role may evolve over time. While this job description outlines the primary responsibilities, additional duties may be assigned as business needs change. Forbes aims to offer employees the flexibility they need in order to be successful. Some positions may require candidates to be based in a specific location for consideration while some roles may be fully remote (within the U.S.) if it aligns with the needs of the position. This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Washington. Due to business operations and compliance requirements, we are unable to consider applicants based outside these states at this time.

Forbes is an equal opportunity employer.