Senior Director, Short Form Content

This is a Full Time Job

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Job Title: Senior Director, Short Form Content

Your role: Warner Records is in search of a Senior Director of Short Form Content to spearhead the development of high-performing short-form content that builds the narratives of our artists on socials, drives cultural impact and converts to music consumption. The position sits within our Digital team and will work cross-functionally with all departments to develop short-form content for our artists, the Warner Records social accounts, social partners, and DSPs.

Here you'll get to:
• Work cross-functionally to develop a short-form content strategy for each artist that builds their social narrative and drives music consumption.
• Conceptualize, develop and execute ideas for social content to support major releases.
• Partner with the Creative and PR teams to develop social content plans to be captured at music video shoots and press events.
• Shoot social-first native content, Interviews, viral videos, acoustic performances, etc.
• Edit content delivered by videographers and artists into high-performing social content.
• Work directly with artists, managers, and other creative partners to develop content plans.
• Maintain expert level knowledge of high-performing and trending content formats across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, etc.
• Hire and create a roster of production crews, producers, videographers, and editors for out-of-house content production.
• Develop a roster of social content producers/editors we can pair with each artist to shoot and edit content for their social accounts.
• Maintain production schedules and route content for approvals to internal stakeholders and management.

About you:
• At least 5-7 years of experience in content creation - photo and video.
• Full knowledge of Final Cut Pro Studio and Adobe Production Bundle on the mac operating system including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
• Experience shooting high-performing vertical content on an iPhone
• Broad knowledge of film and production process, including operating a professional digital video camera, with knowledge of lighting systems and audio recording
• Knowledge of audio recording for interviews and live/acoustic videos
• Knowledge of livestream software and hardware
• Excellent organizational ability and strong initiative
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and balance multiple priorities

We'd love it if you also had:
• Minimu