About the Role
This is a launch for a new format-first short-form channel. You will work alongside the creative lead and channel manager to take content from treatment to publish, producing shoots end-to-end and maintaining quality and feel while contributing creative ideas.
Responsibilities
- Run shoots end-to-end: planning, logistics, on-the-day production, through to delivery
- Produce recurring episodes of established formats, keeping quality and visual consistency across every drop
- Contribute creative ideas - new episodes, format twists, and pitches of your own as the channel grows
- Source and secure locations, kit, contributors and talent, including casting members of the public on location
- Support the creative lead on treatments, scripts and video structure
- Deliver branded episodes to client brief, managing approvals and brand requirements alongside the editorial cadence
- Keep production status clear and current throughout, and own what you deliver
- Use performance data to refine episodes as the channel finds its audience
Requirements
- A track record producing short-form social video at a regular cadence, ideally series or recurring formats
- Hands-on shoot experience across studio and location, and the ability to run a set without hand-holding
- Comfortable approaching and filming with members of the public - release forms, rapport, quick turnarounds
- Creative instinct: ideas of your own, and the judgement to know when to flex a format and when to protect it
- Experience producing branded or commercial content to client brief is a strong plus
- Strong editorial judgement and a feel for TikTok and Reels specifically
Skills
- Short-form social video production
- Studio and location shooting
- On-set production management
- Content ideation
- Location scouting
- Talent sourcing and casting
- Client brief adherence
- Brand requirement management
- Performance data analysis
- TikTok
- Reels
Location
- New Media HQ, Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5HY
Work Type
- 6-month fixed-term contract
About the Company
- DMG New Media builds social-first brands across news, sport, lifestyle, entertainment and culture, reaching hundreds of millions of people every month.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
- We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
