Video Production Lead

Ethos; United States; On-site; USD 105,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos is hiring a Video Production Lead to drive our video output across linear, OTT and UGC, overseeing end-to-end production from concept to delivery. This hands-on role requires building production frameworks, managing timelines and budgets, coordinating talent, locations, and logistics, and delivering assets across high-volume campaigns.

The role works with creative directors and growth marketers, balancing speed with quality in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in video production, from concept through delivery.
• Experience negotiating contracts, SOWs, and talent usage agreements with vendors.
• Existing network of production partners, agencies, and freelancers you can activate quickly.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving fast without sacrificing quality.
• Knowledge of production and post-production processes: casting, locations, crew, editing and motion tools.
• Excellent communication skills; able to brief a director, calm stakeholders, and give editors clear notes.

Responsibilities

• Own video production projects end to end, managing scope, budget, and schedule from brief through final delivery.
• Lead pre-production: casting, locations, crew, permits, and logistics.
• Oversee high-volume asset versioning and resizing across formats and channels.
• Run compliance reviews on assets before delivery and flag content needing legal sign-off.
• Partner with editors, motion designers, and post-production vendors to ensure timely delivery.
• Act as the primary contact for stakeholders, representing creative priorities from kickoff to wrap.
• Manage relationships with outside production vendors, freelancers, and agencies; decide when to bring work in-house.
• Draft, negotiate, and manage contracts and statements of work with vendors and agencies.
• Source and vet new production partners and freelancers; expand roster of talent.
• Track usage rights and licensing terms for talent across paid social, TV, and radio; manage renewals.

Skills

Video Production

Vendor Contracts

Partner Network

Ambiguity Management

Post-Production Tools

Communication Skills

AI in Production

Operations Mindset

Tools

Editing Software

Job description

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

About The Role

We're hiring a Video Production Lead to run the machine behind our video output on linear, OTT and UGC. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role for someone who has built production frameworks from the ground up: someone who can scope a project, build the timeline and budget, coordinate talent and locations and all the invisible logistics needed to execute it, and manage it through to a finished asset. You'll oversee production operations across our performance marketing, focussing primarily on our UGC shoots, and direct response tv campaigns, bringing structure and speed to a fast, high-volume environment. You'll partner closely with creative directors, growth marketers, and partner agencies, production companies, and freelancers, turning briefs into production plans the whole team can execute against. You'll flag risks before they become problems and give the team a clear system to plan around.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Own video production projects end to end, managing scope, budget, and schedule from brief through final delivery
• Lead pre-production: casting, locations, crew, permits, and logistics, so every shoot day starts ready
• Oversee high-volume asset versioning and resizing across formats and channels, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks at scale
• Run compliance reviews on creative assets before delivery, flagging claims or content that need legal sign-off
• Partner with editors, motion designers, and post-production vendors to make sure final assets are delivered on time
• Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders throughout a project, representing creative priorities and standards from kickoff to wrap
• Manage relationships with outside production vendors, freelancers, and agencies, and know when to bring work in-house versus outsource
• Draft, negotiate, and manage contracts and statements of work for production vendors, freelancers, and agencies, partnering with legal as needed
• Source and vet new production partners, agencies, and freelancers, bringing your own network and relationships to expand our roster of trusted talent and vendors
• Track usage rights and licensing terms for talent appearing in paid social, TV, and radio, and manage renewals to keep all usage in compliance ahead of expiration
• Juggle multiple concurrent projects, from quick-turn social content to larger brand and product videos, while being able to identify and flag additional resourcing needs
• Spot opportunities to make the production process faster and more efficient as volume grows
• Support creative operations in daily tasks, such as maintaining project boards, stakeholder correspondence, managing compliance review workflows and removing blockers for creative team

Qualifications And Skills

• 8+ years of experience in video production, with a track record of owning shoots and productions from concept through delivery
• Experience negotiating and managing vendor/production contracts, SOWs, and talent usage agreements
• An existing network of production partners, agencies, and freelancers you can activate quickly
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving fast without sacrificing quality
• Working knowledge of the production and post-production process, including casting, locations, crew, and standard editing and motion tools
• Excellent communication skills. You can brief a director, calm a nervous stakeholder, and give an editor clear notes, sometimes all in the same day
• A collaborative mindset and genuine curiosity about what makes video perform, not just what makes it look good
• Experience utilizing AI tools and building AI workflows to bring quantifiable efficiencies to production processes
• You are an operations and process minded person who is able to shift between creative operations and video production seamlessly

The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $105,000 - $185,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits. You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/

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