Accountabilities
As Creative Director / Producer, you will lead the creative direction and production workflow for each video, ensuring consistent storytelling, quality, and audience engagement. Your responsibilities will include:
Pre-Production
- Research and develop compelling video title and thumbnail concepts to maximize audience interest and engagement.
- Brief, coordinate, and manage thumbnail designers to ensure creative concepts are translated into effective visuals.
- Develop storylines and subplots for upcoming episodes as well as footage that has already been filmed.
- Shape narratives for coaching sessions and other unscripted content, adapting the storyline to discoveries and developments during filming.
Post-Production
- Write scripts, voiceovers, and audience-retention elements for each video.
- Oversee the complete editing and post-production pipeline, coordinating the work of:
- One to two raw footage editors.
- An editor responsible for hooks, advertising segments, outros, and visual effects.
- A colorist.
- A sound designer.
- A technical manager.
- Manage the review process across all production stages, providing clear feedback and maintaining consistently high creative standards.
- Conduct the final creative review and approve every video before publication.
- Identify opportunities to improve storytelling, production workflows, and the channel's overall creative direction.
Requirements
The ideal candidate is a resourceful creative leader with excellent storytelling instincts, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to drive a distributed production team toward ambitious creative goals. Candidates should demonstrate:
- Strong creativity, resourcefulness, and the ability to develop original content concepts.
- A clear long-term creative vision and the ability to continuously improve existing content and production standards.
- Exceptional attention to detail, particularly when reviewing edits and providing creative feedback.
- Consistently high standards and the ability to maintain quality across every stage of production.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to give clear, actionable direction to creative professionals.
- A strong sense of urgency, responsiveness, and the ability to manage fast-moving production timelines.
- The ability to coordinate multiple contributors and keep the entire editing workflow aligned.
- A genuine ambition to help build a leading golf and sports content channel.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in sports content, documentary production, or long-form YouTube video creation.
- Previous experience managing distributed creative or post-production teams.
- Familiarity with fast-paced, startup-style environments.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong storytelling, creative direction, and video production work.
Benefits
- Remote working arrangement.
- Part-time position, with the possibility of transitioning to full-time.
- High level of creative ownership and influence over the channel's direction.
- Opportunity to shape the storytelling, production standards, and long-term vision of a growing golf and sports channel.
- Direct collaboration with a distributed team of creative and production specialists.