Senior Manager, Post Production (Remote)

Forbes Advisor helps readers make informed decisions through trusted advice and guidance across a broad range of consumer topics. The company is seeking a Senior Manager, Post Production to build and lead teams of editors and post-production specialists, oversee the quality and delivery of paid social and native ads, and improve the media workflow and systems. The role also involves hiring and developing talent, managing high-volume production, editing priority ads, and ensuring finished work meets legal and brand guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Hire, lead, and develop your team, both the Editors who cut and deliver the ads and the small team of post specialists who prep the media for them, and build a bench of freelancers for busy periods
• Own the quality of every ad the team ships. Set a clear, high bar and hold it
• Give clear, useful feedback that makes your editors better and brings each cut to a finished, high-quality state
• Know a strong cut from a weak one, and help your team get there faster
• Oversee the editing and delivery of footage from all three of our content sources (in-person shoots, remote UGC, and AI-generated video) so the final ads feel polished and consistent
• Own and improve the media pipeline: how footage gets ingested, color-corrected, and organized, so editors can always find what they need and move fast
• Occasionally edit the highest-priority ads yourself, to set the standard for the team and stay close to the craft
• Keep the team producing at the pace performance marketing demands: a high volume of ads and variations every week, without the quality slipping
• Manage the team's workload and priorities so the right work reaches the right person and deadlines are met
• Partner with the Head of Creative Production and the Creative Directors on hiring and on raising the craft bar as the team grows
• Make sure finished ads meet the required legal and brand guidelines before they go live

Requirements:

• • A strong portfolio of short-form video editing for paid social, direct-response, or performance content. We want to see the actual work
• • 2 to 3+ years managing editors: hiring, leading, and developing a team. It does not need to have been a large one
• • A great eye. You can watch a cut and know what is working, what is not, and how to fix it, then explain it clearly to the editor who made it
• • A track record of hiring and developing good editors, and a real point of view on how to spot editing talent
• • Excellent editing craft of your own: strong instincts for story, pacing, and finish in a professional editing tool (Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or similar)
• • A solid command of post-production workflow and media systems (ingest, color, and asset/DAM organization), enough to lead the specialists who run it and keep improving how the pipeline works
• • A clear sense of what makes a paid social ad work: a strong hook, tight pacing, clean captions, and a native feel for each platform
• • Comfort with AI editing tools and a point of view on where they help and where they do not
• • Comfort working at high volume and pace, shipping many ads and variations a week without dropping the bar
• • A clear communicator who works well with creative, production, and media-buying teams
• • A self-starter who is comfortable in a fast, start-up style environment
• • Editing work with clear performance results behind it
• • Motion graphics or light design skills (After Effects or similar)
• • Experience managing freelance or contract editors, not only full-time staff
• • Experience finishing AI-generated footage to a high, real-ad standard
• • Familiarity with current AI editing tools and asset-management (DAM) systems
• • Comfort reading performance dashboards to inform editing decisions