YouTube Video Producer

This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

About the Company

This company engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It operates through the following segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Corporate. The Upstream segment includes crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids exploration, field development, and production. The Downstream segment focuses on refining, logistics, power generation, and the marketing of crude oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and related services to international and domestic customers. The Corporate segment offers supporting services including human resources, finance, and information technology. The company was founded on May 29, 1933 and is headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Job Summary

This Company is seeking a well-organized, self-motivated, and creative digital communications professional to manage our growing YouTube account. The successful candidate is a YouTube first video producer who would take an ownership role on YouTube, with the potential to manage other channels longer-term as our team grows and evolves. This individual would be working closely with the creative team and would need to know all the steps of production including ideation, script writing, shooting, editing, uploading, etc. The candidate will plan and guide engaging, informative, innovative and entertaining campaigns and content for the platform to strengthen our corporate reputation and support communication with internal and external audiences. They will work closely with our corporate communication and business partners across the company – on topics as diverse as leadership, workplace, performance, technology, sustainability, citizenship and many more – to grow our audience and optimize the channel through targeted analytics and benchmarks. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of overseeing top-notch social campaigns and strategies with measurable results in both reputational and commercial metrics. They should have a strong understanding of the current digital/social media landscape, be a strategic thinker, goal-oriented, and enjoy working in a fast-paced, start-up culture. This role is on the social team, working as part of the corporate communication team.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee development of high-quality content for audience-first, channel-sensitive, socially-native campaigns
• Develop and execute content strategy for YouTube aligned with reputational, brand, and business goals
• Lead and guide YouTube campaigns across multiple teams
• Gather and analyze platform analytics, provide insights to drive audience growth and content improvement
• Stay up to date with latest social media trends and developments, tailoring content to specific audiences and channels
• Share knowledge of social content best practices to help other teams and partners develop creative ideas
• Continually improve social content quality and performance through measurement and evaluation backed by analytics on social listening, monitoring, measurement of ROI and evaluation
• Identify, assess, and review potential investment opportunities to improve overall system viability

Requirements:

• Willing to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• 5+ years of digital communications, social media, or video production experience, ideally a mix of agency and corporate
• Proficient with legacy, current, and emerging features within YouTube, with a strong understanding of the feature-set on other platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and LinkedIn
• Experience using design and video editing software such as the Adobe Creative Suite, Premiere Pro. Knowledge of After Effects, etc.
• Proficient with social media content management and scheduling software such as Hootsuite or Sprinklr
• Experience supporting leaders and supervising/mentoring more junior staff
• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualification:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proven track record of working on and delivering major social media/digital comms campaigns with reputational, brand, and business goals
• Experience using data/insights to inform content development and campaign strategy, using the latest social media monitoring and analysis tools
• Experience working in a complex environment with multiple teams and business lines
• Thinks strategically and big, ensuring that content delivers against core business objectives and articulates key messages
• Takes pride in storytelling and creating engaging, fresh content that is relevant, interesting and entertaining to audiences
• Ability to pitch story/video ideas, write scripts for video and work on in-house and on-field shoots
• Understands how to adapt stories and write for video
• Ability to manage time wisely and prioritize tasks
• Ability to work in an ongoing collaborative team environment and willingness to work on multiple projects with various producers at a single moment
• Is highly analytical and structured; pays extreme attention to details
• Has good judgment, particularly in narrow timeframes and under pressure
• Has a track record of successfully managing complex, fast-moving, and unexpected communications challenges in a team environment and is able to deal with ambiguity
• Innovates and comes up with new, peculiar, and effective ideas
• Is self-driven and proactive – enjoys taking responsibility and ownership while making things happen – often to a tight deadline
• Is tactically aware – knowledgeable about what’s going on in social media and digital communications, as well as the wider retail/tech industry and digital ecosystem, to deliver maximum benefit for the brand.

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