Overview
Hands-on creative who takes video from concept to final delivery as part of Zillow's Studio Z in-house creative agency, handling cinematography, lighting, audio, editing, and final delivery across educational, SEO, product, campaign and evergreen content.
What you'll do
- Serve as Studio Z's videographer and internal content creator resource, bringing a strong visual point of view across a wide range of formats and conditions.
- Design and execute lighting for interviews, narrative, and product setups, often in uncontrolled locations, adapting quickly to available resources and production limitations.
- Capture clean, reliable production audio across interviews, scripted, vodcasts, and documentary-style shoots, including multi-cam and multi-mic situations.
- Edit, mix, color, and finish your own work in Adobe Premiere Pro, versioning across channels from long-form YouTube to vertical social cutdowns.
- Build or utilize motion graphics templates and animate product UI in After Effects, working from Figma product design systems.
- Support concept development and shoot planning, contributing to creative direction, shot lists, storyboards, scouting, scheduling, talent and location logistics, and budget-conscious production decisions.
- Own and maintain Studio Z's camera, lighting, and audio kit, and drive equipment investments that expand internal capability.
- Partner with the Post Production team to build out footage management, proxy workflows, shared templates, delivery, backup, and archive in a remote, cloud-based environment.
- Direct and manage external vendors, on-set crews, or in-house support crew.
- Share knowledge, document and improve workflows, and help elevate the team's creative and production capabilities.
What you'll need
- 5+ years across video production, cinematography, editing, and motion graphics, with a reel of work you personally shot.
- Comfortable carrying a shoot on your own: scouting, lighting, miking, operating, wrapping, without dropping the quality bar.
- Deep camera and technical content creation expertise, with a real point of view about how something should look and why.
- Able to light and capture clean audio quickly in imperfect spaces, with whatever gear is on hand.
- Strong editor and storyteller, fluent in Premiere Pro (preferred) or DaVinci Resolve.
- Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and solutions-driven, and energized by building the systems and standards a growing team needs.
Nice to have
- DaVinci Resolve experience.
- Experience in After Effects and UI product animation from Figma design files.
- Experience with remote production and cloud-based post workflows such as LucidLink and Frame.io.
- Curious about AI and emerging creative tools as a way to work faster and better.
- Photography and drone experience.
- Bachelor's degree in film, communications, design, or a related field.
Details
- Remote position; work from a physical location of your choice that must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.
- Variable travel for shoots and retreats.
Read the full description and apply on the company’s own careers page.