Manager, Video Production

📋 Description

• • Bilt is revolutionizing the way people interact with their living expenses, transforming rent and mortgage payments into a powerful engine for earning valuable rewards and unlocking exclusive neighborhood benefits. At its core, Bilt empowers members to turn everyday financial actions into tangible assets, with Bilt Points serving as a highly flexible and valuable currency. These points can be seamlessly transferred to leading airline and hotel partners, applied towards future rent or mortgage payments, redeemed for a wide array of goods and services, or even saved as a significant step towards homeownership. The "Rent Day" initiative further enhances member value with exclusive, monthly rewards, fostering a sense of community and continuous engagement. Beyond financial rewards, Bilt cultivates local connections through its Neighborhood Benefits program, offering members exclusive perks at over 45,000 merchants nationwide, including restaurants, fitness studios, and pharmacies, all while earning additional Bilt Points. Complementing this ecosystem, Bilt offers a suite of three unique cards designed to maximize rewards on rent payments and everyday spending, notably eliminating transaction fees for rent payments – a market first.
• • As the Manager, Video Production at Bilt, you will be instrumental in shaping and scaling our video content strategy, focusing on both product education and growth marketing initiatives. This role is pivotal in establishing and maintaining the operational framework for our video production, ensuring a consistent, high-quality output that effectively communicates our evolving product and brand narrative. You will act as the central hub for video production, bringing structure, clarity, and efficiency to a high-volume workflow. Your primary responsibility will be to translate creative visions into tangible, executable production plans, working in close collaboration with our Product Marketing, Growth, and Brand teams. This position is ideally suited for a proactive individual who thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments, possesses a passion for process optimization, and excels at making complex production processes appear seamless from inception to completion.
• • **Own Pre-Production & Planning:** You will spearhead the entire pre-production lifecycle. This includes meticulously developing and managing production schedules, crafting detailed shot lists, preparing comprehensive call sheets, establishing and adhering to project budgets, and defining clear timelines for each video project. A key aspect of this role involves managing the intake and prioritization of video requests from various internal teams, ensuring clear communication regarding expectations and realistic delivery timelines. You will translate creative briefs into actionable production plans, proactively identifying potential risks, resource needs, and logistical challenges before they arise. Your foresight will be crucial in ensuring smooth project progression.
• • **Lead Production Logistics:** You will be responsible for coordinating all on-site and off-site shoot logistics. This encompasses securing appropriate locations, assembling skilled freelance crews, arranging necessary equipment rentals, casting and managing talent, obtaining required permits, and liaising with various production vendors. As the primary point of contact during shoots, you will ensure productions remain on schedule, manage on-the-ground operations, and adeptly troubleshoot any issues that emerge in real-time. Cultivating and maintaining strong, reliable relationships with freelance crews, studios, and production vendors across New York City and other key markets will be a continuous effort, ensuring access to top talent and resources.
• • **Drive Process & Operational Excellence:** A significant part of your role will involve developing, refining, and documenting robust production workflows, templates, and best practices to support the scalable growth of our video output. You will diligently track project budgets, manage expenditures across multiple projects, and proactively flag any potential financial discrepancies or overruns. Anticipating potential production hurdles, such as unpredictable weather, talent availability conflicts, or scope changes, and developing effective contingency plans will be essential to maintaining project momentum and quality. Your commitment to operational excellence will ensure efficiency and consistency across all video production efforts.
• • **Content Focus:** While managing the overall production, you will also contribute to the strategic direction of content, ensuring alignment with product marketing goals, growth marketing objectives, and overall brand messaging. This involves understanding the nuances of producing product marketing content that clearly articulates features and benefits, performance-driven growth advertising that resonates with target audiences, and potentially educational or documentary-style content that builds brand authority and trust. Your ability to guide production towards achieving specific marketing outcomes will be highly valued.
• • **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** You will work closely with internal creative teams, product managers, marketing specialists, and other stakeholders to ensure video content aligns with broader company objectives. This collaborative approach ensures that video production is not an isolated function but an integrated component of Bilt's overall marketing and product strategy. Your ability to communicate effectively and build consensus across diverse teams will be critical to success.
• • **Quality Assurance:** You will oversee the quality of all video productions, from initial concept through final delivery, ensuring adherence to brand guidelines, technical specifications, and creative objectives. This includes managing post-production workflows and ensuring timely delivery of polished, impactful video assets.