Field Producer, YouTube

This is a Freelance Job

We run the YouTube channel for a big entertainment resort in Southern California. The whole channel, not a one-off campaign. We'll tell you which one on the first call.

For context, the resort is a large destination property with a hotel, a lot of restaurants and bars, a concert venue and live entertainment. We're a small branded content agency that makes YouTube for major brands, and we keep the client's name confidential until the first call.

We shoot about every two weeks, and this runs for the next year.

I'm the director. I shoot most of it myself, usually with one camera, and I handle the creative and the client. I need someone to handle everything else on the ground.

Our agency works with a lot of major brands, so if this goes well there's a good chance it leads to other accounts.

WHAT YOU'D BE DOING

Honestly, most of it is getting strangers to help us.

A resort this size has a different person for everything... security, promotions, valet, the hotel, every restaurant and bar. Most of them have never seen a YouTube shoot. You figure out who to ask, get them on board, and get it in writing. Then you do it again with the next person.

Before each shoot you'd:

• Take the plan I agree on with the client and turn it into something the property can actually run
• Build the run of show, shot by shot (time, location, what happens, what the property has to give us, who from their side is with us)
• Lock parking, the entrance, access, the meeting point, and a phone number for every contact
• Run casting sessions with talent and send me the tapes with your notes
• Work with our creator person to book creators, and take calls with them for me
• Handle travel, rooms and arrival times for talent and creators
• Sort out gear, props and insurance certificates
• Keep an eye on the budget and who's owed what
• Check every deck and schedule before the client sees it
• Keep the tracker up to date

On shoot days you'd:

• Be there from before call to after wrap
• Meet talent when they arrive and keep them where they need to be
• Get releases signed
• Keep everyone fed
• Hold the schedule (someone will try to take a location back early... it happened to us last time)
• Track receipts, petty cash, and anything that gets broken
• Have the gear laid out so I can grab what I need and keep shooting

WHO THIS IS FOR

You've produced shoots before and you know how it's supposed to go.
You've made or produced YouTube Shorts and worked with creators. If someone asked you how a Short gets made differently from a long-form video, you could just answer.
You're good with people you've never met. That's the most important part of this job.
You use AI every day (Claude, Codex, etc.) and you use it to actually build things... decks, spreadsheets, run of shows, briefs. And the stuff you send doesn't read like a robot wrote it.
If you hate using AI, this isn't the job for you.
You'd rather sort out small stuff over text than get on a call.
You live in SoCal and can get to shoots east of LA. And you're 21+ (some of our locations require it).

WHAT A GOOD FIRST YEAR LOOKS LIKE

First shoot is late November. If it goes well, every department knows we're coming, everything's approved in writing, and I spend both days shooting instead of chasing stuff down.
By month three, people on the property know you and it gets easier every time.
By the end of the year, creator shoots run without me chasing a single detail, and the channel's growing because of it.

PAY

$3,000 flat per shoot. That's about 20 hours of prep spread across the two weeks before, plus the shoot days (usually two).
It's flat on purpose. If you can get it done right in less time, good for you.

HOW TO APPLY

If it looks like a fit, we'll send you a short timed test (paid, $30). Part of it is a quick video about the hardest yes you ever got from a stranger.
Apply here with your resume and a link to your work.