Video Producer and Editor

Who We Are
Planetizen is the most visited urban planning website in the United States, providing training, news, jobs, and continuing education across multiple products and services. Planetizen publishes 40 times a week, including news, analysis, and commentary, in addition to hosting regularly updated jobs and events boards. Planetizen Courses provides the leading online professional education website for planners and urban designers, with 350+ of the highest quality video courses available to subscribers. The Planetizen team works in a collaborative and entrepreneurial environment, where team members are encouraged to continue to learn, grow, and implement new ideas. 

The Opportunity
Planetizen is looking for a talented Video Producer & Editor to join our team. The Video Producer & Editor will be responsible for producing, filming, and editing high-quality video course content, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership for all new courses published on the platform. This role will also own Planetizen’s YouTube channel, with the goal to grow the channel to 100k subscribers in the first year. 

This is the right role for a resourceful, tenacious, and growth-oriented team player, passionate about the potential of video to educate and contribute to the process of planning a prosperous, sustainable, and equitable built environment. Successful candidates will have experience in the urban planning industry, or a closely related field, and will recognize and value the terminology, concepts, and personalities of planning. The Video Producer & Editor is a key member of the team at Planetizen, working directly with the instructors, editorial manager, and marketing function to create educational content to inform the entire planning field—planners, designers, and citizens.

Key Deliverables

• Educational Video Content Creation - Working with subject matter experts, produce best-in-class educational video content published on our website and social media channels that effectively communicates urban planning concepts, tools, and best practices. This involves planning, filming, editing, publishing, archiving, and reporting on video content.
• Audience Growth and Engagement on YouTube - Grow Planetizen's YouTube channel subscribers to 100k, focusing on creating captivating content that appeals to urban planners, students, and related professionals and leveraging YouTube analytics to inform content strategy.
• Analytics & Reporting - Understand and report video content performance and contribution to business goals. Make recommendations to process and content improvements. Regularly assess feedback from users and analytics to refine content strategies, ensuring that the video training remains relevant, current, and effectively meets educational goals.
• Team collaboration - Collaborate with content and marketing teams to plan, develop, create, and launch video content that achieves business objectives. Work closely with the editorial manager to identify trends, topics, and opportunities for new courses and content that meet the needs of the urban planning community. 

• Learn about the Planetizen brand, content, products, and audience.  
• Deliver a growth plan to reach 100k subscribers to our YouTube channel. 
• Produce and publish your first video content.

• With support from the team, execute on the content strategy by producing and publish