Videographer/Video Editor

Job description:

We’re looking for a humble but driven videographer/video editor. If you are like us, you’ll have a passion for gaming, hardware, and esports, so much so that it’s an integral part of your personality so talking about it the newest games or getting excited over the newest hardware comes natural and you just can’t wait to share it with everyone you know.

As videographer and post-production video editor, your creative skills, unique vision, and passion for gaming are essential components to our production. You’ll be task with numerous video projects simultaneously and regularly that include original content such as maintaining our YouTube web series such as our tech tip series, product teasers/hype videos, commercial broadcast and social media spots, and vendor partner collaboration that are bold, modern and compliment the brand vision and design aesthetics. It will be a constant challenge to create new and refreshing content while maintaining an overall design language consistency across all production that adheres to the global branding and marketing direction. The most important thing is that you live, eat, and breathe gaming but have the well-rounded design experience of traditional design to pull together designs that speak to gamers while simultaneously being aware of traditional layout guidelines that make good designs.

Please provide a link to your portfolio website or a PDF portfolio with your application.

No Relocation - Local applications only

Ask yourself this and gauge your ability:

If you were given a project to create content for a new laptop, could you create a script, adjust it per management's direction and suggestions, setup the studio including product and lighting, shoot the video, edit the video in post-production, source audio, and cut it for different formats from broadcast to social media, all by yourself?

KEY ATTRIBUTES

• Left and Right Brained: you have the creative knowledge and experience to know what looks good and what doesn’t and how to turn ideas and imagination into reality but you are also analytical and you know that function is just as important as form. You design for both aesthetics and usability and find a way to always balance both.
• A graphics wizard: you know all the ins and outs of the Adobe Video Creative Suite including Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effect, Adobe Audition. Given any ad or video content, you are confident you can recreate every inch of it to a tee with no details left out.
• An idea machine: you are an unstoppable force when it comes to brainstorming and you can easily come up with one and a billion ways to solve a problem.
• Mindful of constraints: you understand that money and time don’t grow on trees so you understand how to work within tough constraints. You might have tons of ideas but you know how to separate manageable and realistic ideas from unrealistic ones. If you are given rules to work within even if they are against your sensibility, you’ll find a way to make it work.
• Commercial and Cinematic duality: you have no problems working in both worlds from creating quick and simple no-nonsense product feature videos that are all about selling a product to elaborate storytelling narrative pieces that are cinematic and emotional.
• Collaborative: you’re comfortable working alongside different teams and departments and are open to feedback, both giving and receiving. You find ways to compromise when there are conflicts in direction and always keep a cool head.
• Studio Equipment Familiarity: you’re comfortable and have experience working with studio equipment including studio lighting, Blackmagic cinema cameras, Sliders, jibs.

JOB DUTIES

• Collaborate with our social media team to create and maintain our current content series such as the Tech Tips web series or new product launch features.
• Regularly shoot product overview videos for new product launches. This includes new system configuration for both Retail and Etail.
• Work on special projects with our top vendor partners including Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD that are promotional pieces that will flex your creativity and challenge your skills.
• Be willing to travel and document with video major events that we participate including esports and gaming events across the country.
• Produce video content involving influencers which will require that you handle both the videography as well as the interviews on location.
• Optimize content for web marketing and have an understanding of web-optimized formats which including banner ads, animations, social media ads, and much more.
• Manage and maintain our 500 SQ ft video studio and equipment which includes an infinity wall, a gaming lifestyle set, and a live streaming broadcast studio.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

To apply: Please email your resume to hr@cyberpowerpc.com to schedule an appointment.

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Work Location: In person