Associate Producer (contract)

Associate Video Producer – Audio/ Video (contract), Editorial Productions Team

New York/ Hybrid

Company Description

LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and everyday millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can.

The thriving and global professional community on LinkedIn means we can transform lives through innovative products and technology. LinkedIn’s mission is to help our members be more productive and successful. Part of this mission is providing them with the right tools to give and get help from each other, to share what they know, and to discover/build/share new skills that will help others. And in the spirit of this, we are focusing on helping our members with original digital content via videos, podcasts and audio that will make this knowledge sharing not only meaningful to the community but entertaining, too.

Job Description

LinkedIn is seeking an associate producer to join our Editorial Productions team assisting on all stages of production for our podcasts and the video extensions of those podcasts. The associate producer will be pitching and booking, doing research, assisting with social cuts, sourcing archive audio and video, maintaining schedules, organizing materials and keeping information up to date, maintaining flows of communication across departments. The Associate Producer must also be able to work independently on stand-alone assignments. This role requires sound editorial judgment, creativity, and the ability to juggle multiple aspects of production at once.

A successful candidate has a passion for podcasts, digital and live video, creating content, and building community, strong project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with coworkers and work in a fast-paced environment.

The associate producer should have experience working in a video or audio producing environment in a media or news outlet and/or social media; a strong editorial sense; excellent (and fast) writing skills; a great ear for stories; and, most importantly, an entrepreneurial spirit.

Primary responsibilities:

• Work in a deadline-driven environment to assist in the production of LinkedIn Editorial video series.
• Collaborate with the team’s Executive Producer and Senior Producer, audio and video producers, and the host’s of each podcast on episode rundowns, live shows, and social cuts.
• Pitch and book compelling and valuable guests for episodes.
• Provide thorough editorial research.
• Create video clips from existing archive material and originally sourced and produced soundbytes.
• Coordinate and schedule logistical tasks for production with internal teams and external talent.
• Assist in the editing of podcast episodes in ProTools.
• Support the production team as they develop content strategies
• Perform other duties that may develop

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3-years of professional work experience producing audio or video content within a traditional media or social media organization

Preferred Qualification:

• Strong editorial and production skills.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Superior project and time management capabilities within a fast-paced, high-productivity environment to deliver on tight deadlines
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision to meet daily and weekly deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate and solve practical problems or issues.
• Ability to prioritize assignments, and execute tasks with total accuracy.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills
• Possess a growing and strategic mindset
• Proficiency in ProTools and knowledge of in-studio audio recording.
• Familiarity with After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, Zencastr, Descript are pluses.

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