Video post-production specialist

As a business, we help developers build successful products by giving them a suite of products to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. We currently offer product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, a CDP, SQL access, and a data warehouse… and there’s plenty more to come. We want to ship every single customer facing product that software teams need, collecting a perfect customer data record along the way, and automating everything with AI.

PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 175,000 companies have installed the platform. We've had huge success with our paid upgrades, raised many many millions from some of the world's top investors, and have been able to generate mid tens of millions of revenue from an all inbound, word-of-mouth driven approach.

We're growing quickly, but sustainably. We're also default alive, averaging 10% monthly revenue growth. We're staying focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring a exceptional team members, and seeing fantastic growth as a result.

We were wildly ambitious in our first two months doing video at PostHog. We shot a ton of footage – probably too much, tbh. We're looking for a post-production specialist to help our capacity match our ambition.

You’ll be working with our video producer on everything in our video production process after shooting wraps. This means organizing footage, editing it into a film you’re proud of, crafting a narrative, cutting the excess, adding motion graphics worthy of our brand, and coordinating publishing.

You’ll need to be particularly adept in live action editing workflows and the creation of eye-catching motion graphics. The below is a work in progress, but gives you an idea of the kind of things you could end up working on. See also: our Series D announcement video.

This job is ideal for someone who:

• Wants to help shape our visual identity and video style. We're known for being developer-first, opinionated, not like other SaaS companies, a bit weird, and in love with hedgehogs. We want carry this over to the videos we make.

• Can work on multiple projects across multiple formats. We’ve shot a live action mini-documentary, talking head explainers about getting a job at a startup, short-form announcements about our AI features, our best attempt at developer-focused TikTok brainrot, and more. We want you to have the skills to help us shape whatever we dream up (and a showreel to prove it).

• Can do this all remotely. You'll need to be a wizard of cloud data management, server organization, and production coordination. You will be working with our video producer to ensure a seamless workflow for footage and projects.

• Working closely with the video producer to lead post-production on the footage they’ve shot. Sometimes juggling editing projects between you.

• Editing and shaping a range of content from live action mini-documentaries to talking head explainers with screen captures, short form videos, announcements, and more.

• Motion design hand in hand with editing. As a company with a strong brand and identity, incorporating this into videos will be crucial. Expect to add more than a few hedgehogs, code examples, and graphs.

• Owning the post-production process from managing footage to collaborating about the scheduling to editing to getting feedback to publishing.

• Provide input on and know how to elevate developer-focused videos such as code tutorials, UI walkthroughs, and changelog updates. Developers aren't always the best on camera, but we do love and utilize feedback.

• Creating reusable editing templates and assets in software like CapCut that can help other PostHog teams create their own quick, on-brand videos.

• Pro skills with Adobe Premiere and After Effects.

• Proven track record in editing films of exceptional quality across a variety of styles: talking head, announcements, documentaries, screen recorded code tutorials, social short form, and more.

• Ability to create motion graphics that are on brand and elevate the asset being created. We'd love to see title cards, lower thirds, callouts, graphics, UI flows, animated graphs, and characters you've created.

• Experience with server/file management and cloud data storage.

• Excellent organizational skills, especially when managing multiple projects and tight editing deadlines.

• A strong opinion on what our visual and editorial style should look like, incorporating our brand, tone of voice, and creative direction as well as internet and industry trends. If you think what we're doing now is totally wrong, we'd love to hear why.

• Knowledge of available tools such as stock libraries, audio networks, plugins & more – and how to deploy them to maximum effect.

Nice-to haves

• Experience creating content for software developers, developer communities, technical audiences, or just the internet in general.

• A knack for coming up with on-brand, scroll-stopping creative pitches as well as improving others’ pitches.

• Experience creating and continually improving postproduction processes.

• Has worked and grown with a video production team, including leveraging freelancers when useful.

• Edited for short form (TikTok, Shorts, Reels) specifically. Understand short form specific trends. Can use CapCut and other short form specific tools.