Video Producer

Responsibilities

• Technical Capture & Floor Execution
  • Own the picture and sound of every recording, operating as DP, Technical Director, and Audio Mixer across DOAC’s multi-camera setup.
  • Cover lighting, framing, exposure, and look, and direct camera operators to the DOAC standard.
  • Operate the switcher and the live multi-camera cut, managing ISO records and multi-format delivery.
  • Run sound recording across mics, levels, and a clean, broadcast-grade audio capture for every guest, every segment.
• Crew Leadership & Quality Bar
  • Build and direct freelance technical crew across camera, technical direction, sound, and specialist roles, holding the craft standard on who works on DOAC.
  • Source and vet crew in unfamiliar markets, exercising the taste to judge an unknown operator, mixer, or TD cold and hold them to the bar.
  • Brief and run the crew on the day so the whole capture team operates as one calibrated unit, accountable to DOAC’s technical and editorial standards.
• The Room: Discretion, Intimacy & Judgment
  • Protect the recording environment. DOAC conversations are sensitive and high-trust, and the capture operation must never disturb that.
  • Enforce the “neither seen nor heard” doctrine. Crew invisibility is the baseline standard, not the aspiration.
  • Read the room and exercise judgment in real time, knowing when to move, when to hold, and when a technical need yields to the moment in front of the guest.
  • Ensure every guest’s in-studio experience is flawless and undisturbed, from arrival through wrap.
• Global Production & Travel
  • Travel with the show to LA, NYC, London, and anywhere DOAC records, running capture personally on the road, often at short notice.
  • Stand up technical capture in any market, covering equipment logistics, freight, local crew, and setup, holding the same standard wherever the show shoots.
  • Maintain consistency across geographies so that every recording, wherever it happens, looks and sounds like DOAC.
• Post-Production Craft
  • Bring proficient-to-expert post skills across video editing, sound mixing, and Photoshop, to inform capture decisions upstream and to execute when needed.
  • Capture for the edit, shooting and recording with a deep understanding of how material is cut, graded, and mixed downstream.
  • Partner with Post to close the loop between capture and delivery, eliminating problems at source rather than fixing them in the edit.
• Details, Marginal Gains & Continuous Improvement
  • Obsess over the 1%, committing to marginal gains in image, sound, setup, and workflow every single week.
  • Own the technical setup, evolving the camera, switching, and sound systems, tools, and infrastructure at the capture level.
  • Introduce and evaluate new technologies, including AI tools, to raise capture quality and speed, and contribute to DOAC’s production experimentation engine.
• Partnership & Operating Cadence
  • Partner with the Head of Production & Production Manager. They own logistics, budget, and coordination; the Video Producer owns the technical craft and the capture itself.
  • Operate inside the production plan, delivering flawless capture against the schedule, crew, and resources the production team sets, and flagging technical needs and risks early.

Competencies

• Hybrid technical mastery: Genuine craft as a DP and operator, a Technical Director who can run a live multi-camera switcher, and an audio mixer who can run sound recording, all in one person.
• Editorial and emotional intelligence: Exceptional discretion, able to read the room and operate invisibly inside sensitive, high-trust conversations.
• Detail and follow-through: Obsessive about the small things and driven by a marginal-gains mindset, never satisfied with “good enough.”
• Decision velocity under pressure: Makes the right technical call fast, in the moment, calmly and reliably in a zero-error environment.
• Craft leadership: Builds, directs, and holds a freelance crew to the standard, including in markets the team has never worked in before.