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Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company, is seeking a Senior Staff YouTube Producer to own and scale its YouTube channel strategy. You will develop Shield AI's YouTube programming strategy, editorial calendar, publishing cadence, and channel-growth plan. Your responsibilities include developing and producing diverse video content—explainers, product stories, interviews, flight-test footage, event coverage, customer narratives, and short-form video—that communicates Shield AI's mission, technology, and impact to broad audiences.
You will lead projects end-to-end from creative brief through scripting, interviews, production planning, editing, review, and delivery. This includes editing high-quality long-form and short-form content with attention to story structure, pacing, sound, graphics, color, captions, and final delivery. You will also handle packaging and publishing, optimizing titles, thumbnails, descriptions, chapters, playlists, metadata, and calls to action to maximize channel performance and audience engagement.
Shield AI's products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. The company operates globally with offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and your content will support communications to diverse audiences including defense professionals, technology enthusiasts, and the general public.
Success means establishing a consistent publishing cadence that supports Shield AI's brand and business priorities, creating clear and compelling content that makes the mission and technology understandable, improving channel performance metrics (watch time, retention, engagement, returning viewers, subscribers), and building reliable, scalable production workflows that maintain quality, accuracy, and security.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience in video production, post-production, digital media, editorial, or content marketing
- Strong portfolio demonstrating video editing, visual storytelling, interview production, narrative structure, and digital-video judgment
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and working knowledge of After Effects, Photoshop, Audition, DaVinci Resolve, or equivalent tools
- Demonstrated experience producing and publishing content for YouTube or similar digital-video platforms
- Strong understanding of YouTube packaging and analytics (thumbnails, titles, audience retention, click-through rate, watch time, subscriber growth)
- Ability to independently develop concepts and manage productions from idea through published video
- Willingness to travel periodically for production, events, customer activities, or field shoots
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience managing or growing a YouTube channel for a technology, aerospace, defense, industrial, science, or mission-driven organization
- Experience with camera operation, lighting, location audio, and directing interviews or on-camera talent
- Experience managing freelance editors, motion designers, production crews, agencies, or vendors
- Familiarity with YouTube Shorts and adapting long-form content for short-form distribution
- Experience working with regulated, security-conscious, or high-growth technology organizations
