Video Lead, Video & Animation - Contractor
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Support Redis' Brand video function during a temporary coverage period, keeping priority projects moving from intake through final delivery. Manage day-to-day coordination across Brand, Product, and Demand Gen teams by scoping requests, building timelines, and flagging resourcing tradeoffs. Oversee end-to-end production for brand, product, and event videos, reviewing scripts, storyboards, and cuts for quality and brand consistency. Coordinate with external production partners and occasionally support in-person shoots in the SF Bay Area while organizing project files and feedback threads. Maintain organized workflows to ensure seamless operations while the internal video lead is out.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in video production, creative production, branded content, post-production, or a similar role
- Experience managing video projects from brief through final delivery in a brand, agency, in-house creative, tech, SaaS, or marketing environment
- Strong understanding of video production and post-production workflows, including pre-production, production, editing, review cycles, versioning, captions, exports, and final delivery
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple timelines, stakeholders, feedback rounds, and deliverables at once
- Good creative judgment across pacing, storytelling, visuals, music, motion, captions, and overall polish
- Ability to give clear, actionable feedback to editors, animators, vendors, and internal partners
- Comfort coordinating with external production, animation, motion, or freelance partners
- Hands-on familiarity with video tools and workflows, especially Adobe Premiere Pro, Frame.io Figma, Google Drive, Slack, and project management tools like Asana
- Light editing or post-production ability; you do not need to be a full-time editor, but should be comfortable jumping in on simple cutdowns, selects, captions, versioning, and exports when needed
- Strong communication, organization, and follow-through; this person should be able to keep projects moving with limited hand-holding
- Collaborative, flexible, low-ego working style and comfort operating in a fast-moving marketing environment
- Local to the SF Bay Area preferred, or able to be available locally for occasional in-person shoots
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with B2B tech, SaaS, developer tools, product marketing, or complex technical storytelling
- Familiarity with After Effects, Figma, motion/design handoff workflows, or AI-assisted video tools
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