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Since then, the team has amassed nearly 65 million views. Now we’re building out the second phase of our social video strategy and have launched a new YouTube team dedicated to producing midlength adaptations for the platform.\nWe are looking for a video editor and motion designer who has a passion for accountability journalism and is excited by the opportunity to bring our reporting to an increasing number of viewers who treat YouTube as a platform to learn about the world around them.\nIn this role, you will work alongside video producers on the YouTube team and will own the creative and technical postproduction for several assigned videos a month. As this is a new team, you will also be a key part of building the workflows and best practices that make our YouTube video pipeline sustainable as well as creating the visual identity that helps to answer: What should ProPublica look and sound like on YouTube? \nThe videos you help create for YouTube are meant to serve as standalone editorial products, and we’re looking for your platform-native expertise to drive experimentation that helps us learn quickly, adapt and deliver the most compelling storytelling formats while adhering to our rigorous editorial standards and practices. You should be comfortable working with reporters and editors across the newsroom as well as freelancers we’ll bring on to help with projects.\nThis is a temporary two-year role that will report to our director of multiplatform audience strategy. The YouTube team sits within the larger ProPublica audience team.\nEssential responsibilities \nCollaborate with producers to create videos - and related promo cuts - that are grounded in ethical journalistic principles, standards and practices.\nUse editorial judgment to translate investigations and video scripts with the sensitivity, care and appropriate tone they require.\nOwn the creative and technical postproduction for videos - editing, motion graphic design and animation, color grading and sound design - ensuring projects are shaped and paced for a YouTube-first audience.\nOwn end-to-end motion design workflows, including creating storyboards, animatics and the polished final products for videos.\nEstablish and maintain a central motion design library of MOGRTs, templates, toolkits and other reusable visual assets for teamwide use.\nMaintain ProPublica’s brand standards and overall design system, collaborating with the design and graphics teams, among others, to ensure visual cohesiveness in videos.\nCommunicate proactively with the team regarding project status and timelines and directly collaborate with producers on scoping and delivering videos on schedule. \nManage multiple projects in various stages of production, sometimes meeting tight deadlines.\nAbout you\nWe are looking for candidates who have proven that they can use video editing and design skills for journalistic ends.\nThe ideal candidate will have these skills and attributes:\nFour or more years of professional video editing and motion design experience in a newsroom, media organization or production studio. \nHigh proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, with expert proficiency in both Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro.\nA portfolio that highlights videos you have edited specifically for YouTube, including hosted, vlog-style and/or explainer formats.\nExperience building tension in hooks, controlling pacing and navigating tonal shifts in video storytelling. \nYou are energized by the opportunity of being part of a founding team and creating something from scratch - establishing formats, defining visual languages and building efficient workflows. \nYou thrive while collaborating, seeking input from others and iterating your work based on feedback. \nAnd many of these: \nExperience being part of a founding YouTube team or launching a new project initiative. \nExperience in on-site production, including shooting on professional camera equipment and knowledge of lighting and audio setups.\nExperience with digital asset management and video archival workflows. \nProficiency in Figma and Google Workspace.\nThis job is full time and includes benefits. ProPublica is based in New York, but we’re open to remote candidates. We have offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Phoenix; and Berkeley, California. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. and have the ability to travel, as necessary, for team meetings, training and video-related duties.\nThis role is subject to an in-office work requirement of two days per week in the New York City office. That requirement may be extended to other offices with 60 days’ notice. \nThis job is covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with The NewsGuild of New York, Local 31003, CWA, AFL-CIO.\nThe expected salary range for this position is $90,000 to $115,000.\nThis is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.\nWe will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.\nQuestions? Send an email to . \nNo phone calls, please.\nWe know there are great candidates who may not fit into what we’ve described above or who have important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.\nWe are dedicated to improving our newsroom, in part by better reflecting the people we cover. (Here is a breakdown of our staff.) We are committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. And we are taking steps to meet that commitment. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities. We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. 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