Role: Editor, Digital Media - 12 Month Contract

Team: Film and Video

Scope: Media Production

Years of Experience: 4+

Location: Ventura, CA

As Contract Digital Media Editor, you will be responsible for crafting and editing smart, useful, sometimes funny, always compelling, high production value multimedia storytelling assets on short timelines in cooperation with internal video producers, community managers, category writer-editors and the content team. You will also edit some internal-only videos and will likely be called on to save the day in occasional triage situations. All of this in the interest of inciting action on behalf of our home planet and inspiring more people to help save it.

Your projects will be consistent with the established style and brand standards of Patagonia. You should possess a keen, hard-earned storytelling sense, the ability to think critically and maintain high-level perspective from within the fray, and a nose for how Patagonia should respond to news. You should also have good taste (and the means to manifest it), flexibility, grace, understanding and the ability to calmly respond to, synthesize and execute on feedback, sometimes urgently.

Your ideal skill base would be wrought from experience on post-production in a digital news, social media, nonfiction or nonprofit media production environment with high output and tight deadlines. The ability to do some medium-duty motion graphics and a history of fanatical pursuit of one or more of our sports and/or deep engagement with grassroots environmental activism is requisite.

What You’ll Do

• Edit and craft short-form video and multimedia projects on quick timelines in collaboration with internal — and occasionally external — teams (i.e. video producers, content, category writer-editors and photo)
• Edit internal-only videos (global sales meeting assets, PR assets, HR assets)
• Follow environmental, activism and sport-related news and help determine, in collaboration with producers, category editors and the content team whether and how Patagonia should respond
• Work with reporters and writers, including ambassadors, category editors and freelancers to bring written pieces to life in other media
• Help determine what platform(s) best serve the stories we’re telling and how best to show up there, then execute on that direction
• Take a creative, flexible approach to projects 
• Work efficiently, on deadline, and within budget, in a style consistent with established standards
• Take a no-offence, solutions-based approach to synthesize and implement rounds of critical notes from a variety of stakeholders, often on short notice
• Efficiently and gracefully manage multiple projects at a time
• Understanding of footage and music licensing, releases and permits

Who You Are:

• Collaborative- As Yvon Chouinard writes in Let My People Go Surfing, “Our best efforts are collaborative, and the Patagonia culture rewards the ensemble player while it barely tolerates those who need the limelight.”
• Integrity/Credibility-Take a no-offence, solutions-based approach to synthesize and implement rounds of critical notes from a variety of stakeholders, often on short notice.
• Problem Solving- Take a creative, flexible approach to projects.
• Timeliness- Work efficiently, on deadline, and within budget, in a style consistent with established standards.
• Inclusive: deeply experienced in collaborating with others across difference and bringing in new perspectives and underrepresented narratives through film and digital mediums.
• Detail-oriented: Very astute navigating technology and incredibly organized managing many small details.

Experience You Bring

• 4+ Years of experience working in a deadline-focused production environment, namely digital media, social media, news, nonfiction television, nonprofit media and/or journalism
• Experience in editing short form video for social media platforms
• Experience editing pieces that are audio-only, working with enhanced audio slideshows
• Extensive post-production experience, including incorporating graphics onscreen, quick-turn color-grading, dialog editing, sound design and audio mixing
• Proven track record of great, public facing work
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
• Working in a highly collaborative environment
• Extreme attention to detail and organizational practices

COVID-19 VACCINATIONS

Patagonia requires all employees who enter a Patagonia owned or operated facility or who physically interact with others as part of their job duties to demonstrate proof of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of their employment, subject to exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs, or medical reasons.

Employee Conduct

It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers and vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.