Video Production Lead

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

About the role

We're hiring a Video Production Lead to run the machine behind our video output on linear, OTT and UGC. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role for someone who has built production frameworks from the ground up: someone who can scope a project, build the timeline and budget, coordinate talent and locations and all the invisible logistics needed to execute it, and manage it through to a finished asset. You'll oversee production operations across our performance marketing, focussing primarily on our UGC shoots, and direct response tv campaigns, bringing structure and speed to a fast, high-volume environment.

You'll partner closely with creative directors, growth marketers, and partner agencies, production companies, and freelancers, turning briefs into production plans the whole team can execute against. You'll flag risks before they become problems and give the team a clear system to plan around.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Own video production projects end to end, managing scope, budget, and schedule from brief through final delivery

Lead pre-production: casting, locations, crew, permits, and logistics, so every shoot day starts ready

Oversee high-volume asset versioning and resizing across formats and channels, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks at scale

Run compliance reviews on creative assets before delivery, flagging claims or content that need legal sign-off

Partner with editors, motion designers, and post-production vendors to make sure final assets are delivered on time

Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders throughout a project, representing creative priorities and standards from kickoff to wrap

Manage relationships with outside production vendors, freelancers, and agencies, and know when to bring work in-house versus outsource

Draft, negotiate, and manage contracts and statements of work for production vendors, freelancers, and agencies, partnering with legal as needed

Source and vet new production partners, agencies, and freelancers, bringing your own network and relationships to expand our roster of trusted talent and vendors

Track usage rights and licensing terms for talent appearing in paid social, TV, and radio, and manage renewals to keep all usage in compliance ahead of expiration

Juggle multiple concurrent projects, from quick-turn social content to larger brand and product videos, while being able to identify and flag additional resourcing needs

Spot opportunities to make the production process faster and more efficient as volume grows

Support creative operations in daily tasks, such as maintaining project boards, stakeholder correspondence, managing compliance review workflows and removing blockers for creative team

Qualifications and Skills:

8+ years of experience in video production, with a track record of owning shoots and productions from concept through delivery

Experience negotiating and managing vendor/production contracts, SOWs, and talent usage agreements

An existing network of production partners, agencies, and freelancers you can activate quickly

Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving fast without sacrificing quality