Leads Shield AI’s YouTube strategy, editorial calendar, video production, editing, publishing, packaging, and channel growth. Produces explainers, interviews, product stories, flight-test content, event coverage, and short-form videos. Manages projects from concept through final delivery while partnering with technical experts, executives, and communications teams. Analyzes audience performance metrics and builds scalable production workflows that support brand, business, accuracy, and security goals.
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Shield AI is seeking a YouTube Producer to lead the development, production, publishing, and growth of the company’s YouTube channel. This role combines the craft and editorial judgment of a senior video editor with channel strategy, audience development, and performance ownership.
The YouTube Producer will turn Shield AI’s work in autonomy, aviation, defense, and artificial intelligence into clear, accurate, audience-focused stories. They will manage projects from concept through final edit, packaging, publishing, and analysis while partnering with technical experts, executives, and communications teams.
What you'll do:
- Own Shield AI’s YouTube programming strategy, editorial calendar, publishing cadence, and channel-growth plan.
- Develop and produce video concepts including explainers, product stories, interviews, flight-test content, event coverage, customer narratives, and short-form video.
- Lead projects from creative brief through scripting, interviews, production planning, editing, review, and delivery.
- Edit high-quality long-form and short-form content, including story structure, pacing, sound, graphics, color, captions, and final delivery.
- Package and publish videos using effective titles, thumbnails, descriptions, chapters, playlists, metadata, and calls to action.
Required qualifications:
- 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, including thumbnails, titles, audience retention, click-through rate, watch time, and 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.
What success looks like:
- A consistent YouTube publishing cadence that supports Shield AI’s brand and business priorities.
- Clear, compelling content that makes Shield AI’s mission, people, products, and technology more understandable to broad audiences.
- Stronger channel performance across watch time, retention, engagement, returning viewers, and subscribers.
- Reliable, scalable production workflows that maintain quality, accuracy, and security.
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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