Video Producer, Penguin Creative

Our award-winning Penguin Creative team are hiring, and we’re interested to hear from you if you’re an experienced Video Producer with an interest in creating video content that inspires impact and accessibility.

Through our Penguin Books UK YouTube channel, we offer to the world captivating and engaging content to bring together intimate conversations and ask the big questions that unite our authors and audiences everywhere.

In this newly created role, you’ll report to the Senior Video Producer and join our video team of three, collaborating across our Publishing Houses and imprints to create compelling content on both YouTube and TikTok to appeal to our YA audience.

You’ll naturally be passionate about books and video, experienced in taking an idea through to distribution across appropriate channels, and be actively involved in all elements of the creative process.

In this role you’ll be responsible for post-production video projects including grading, sound and encoding in various formats. You’ll regularly work on a mix of author led and self-initiated videos to ensure video content is consistently produced to a high standard across our Penguin channels.

You’ll regularly work with the broader Penguin Creative team to create concepts and formats that are compelling for the wide variety of authors we publish, with a keen focus on our Young Adult books.

You’ll naturally be well versed in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and comfortable working with a variety of studio lighting as you’ll regularly work within our studio environment. We often work to tight deadlines, so accuracy and efficiency are crucial skills to own in this role.

You’ll be creative, innovative and curious about current and emerging digital trends to further the success of our content across social media.

If this sounds like an opportunity that excites you and you want to join our team, we want to hear from you. Please apply with your cover letter and CV by Sunday 8th August.

In your cover letter, please include one piece of content you’d like to bring to our Penguin social channels, if successful in this role.

What you can expect from us:

Salary: Up to £36,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.

As a Disability Confidence Committed organisation, we’re part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can’t take all eligible candidates to interview.

We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/applying-for-roles-with-a-disability

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org/

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City:London

Postal Code: SW11 7BW

Job ID: 161761