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About the Role
The Commercial Video Producer will create branded content for partners across DMG New Media's brands, focusing on social-first, platform-native productions. This role involves working closely with commercial creative and project management teams, taking ownership of projects from concept to delivery, ensuring high standards, safety, timeliness, budget adherence, and legal compliance.
Responsibilities
- Produce commercial projects from handover through shoot, edit and final delivery.
- Run shoots, including single-camera creator shoots to multi-camera promos.
- Manage shoots, including call sheets, risk assessments, crewing, and contributor releases.
- Cast contributors and work with in-house creators, presenters, and external talent.
- Secure locations and manage supplier relationships.
- Capture brand integrations naturally, balancing polish and authenticity.
- Specify deliverables, including versions, cutdowns, and usage rights.
- Review edits before client submission.
- Archive rushes, project files, and releases.
- Provide costings and production feasibility at the brief stage.
- Manage live production budgets and reconcile jobs.
- Apply branded content compliance standards.
- Adhere to production workflows and sign-off points.
- Contribute production insight and creative ideas to brainstorms and brief responses.
- Collaborate with channel leads, editorial producers, show producers, and in-house creators for editorial alignment.
- Work with commercial project management and production management on client deliverables.
- Liaise with the Production Lead, Lead Editor, and Lead Videographer on editing and videography resources.
- Coordinate with the design team for brand assets and graphics.
- Act as a client-facing representative on shoots.
- Cover for fellow producers during busy periods and holidays.
Requirements
- Proven experience producing branded content specifically for social media platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts).
- Strong practical production skills in planning, scheduling, crewing, shoot management, and post-production.
- Confident in running own shoots with a working knowledge of camera, sound, and lighting.
- Ability to cost productions quickly and realistically, and manage budgets.
- Experience casting contributors and working with creators and talent.
- Understanding of short-form social video content.
- An instinct for integrating brands naturally and knowing when content needs polish versus authenticity.
- Working understanding of branded content compliance, health and safety, releases, and licensing.
- Personable and professional demeanor with clients and colleagues.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure.
- A network of crew and freelancers is a bonus.
- Editing and camera skills are a bonus.
- Long-form video experience is a bonus.
Skills
- Branded content production
- Social media video production
- Video shooting
- Video editing
- Budget management
- Production planning
- Scheduling
- Crewing
- Shoot management
- Post-production management
- Talent casting
- Location scouting
- Brand integration
- Compliance
- Health and safety
- Licensing
- Client communication
- Collaboration
- Camera operation
- Sound recording
- Lighting
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Final Cut Pro
- After Effects
Location
- Daily Mail Headquarters, Derry Street, HSK, London, W8 5HY
Work Type
- Full Time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Proven experience producing branded content specifically for social
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
- Pension plan and life cover
- Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Onsite gym
- Subsidised canteen
- Onsite nurse and GP clinics
About the Company
- DMG New Media is building the next generation of social-first publishing, creating platform-native brands across news, sport, lifestyle, entertainment and culture for global audiences.
- Our network includes Daily Mail, Mail Sport, Metro, Eliza, The Respawn, This Is Money, Nosey and many more, reaching hundreds of millions of people across social platforms each month.
- We have a growing roster of in-house creators and talent, and we’re continuing to scale rapidly across both short-form and long-form video.
- Our Production team makes the video behind it all: original editorial shows and formats for our brands, and branded content for our commercial partners, published across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and emerging platforms.
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.