Group Manager, Video Production

StackAdapt is a technology company that helps marketers reach, engage, and convert audiences through its AI-powered marketing platform. The Group Manager, Video Production will define the company’s video creative standard, produce brand-defining commercials and customer stories, and build a scalable video production system across channels.

Responsibilities:

• Concept, produce, and deliver Super Bowl-quality commercials and brand campaigns that can compete with the best advertising in the world
• Partner with our Creative and Brand teams to develop breakthrough ideas that build awareness and make StackAdapt memorable
• Translate our brand positioning into stories that are emotional, entertaining, human, and highly shareable
• Push StackAdapt beyond traditional B2B and technology marketing conventions
• Transform the traditional B2B case study into something people actually want to watch
• Create customer films that are so beautifully produced and creatively compelling that they can be stronger than the customer's own brand commercials
• Find the human stories behind the results—great people, bold ideas, breakthrough campaigns, and meaningful business impact
• Make our customers the heroes while demonstrating the role StackAdapt played
  in their success
• Establish a new standard for cinematography, storytelling, editing, sound, motion, and overall production quality across StackAdapt
• Develop everything from flagship commercials and cinematic customer stories to product films, executive storytelling, social video, event content, and brand documentaries
• Know when something requires a major production—and when a small team with a great idea can create something remarkable
• Continually challenge the organization to ask: “Is this good enough to represent the brand we're becoming?”
• Increase both the quality and quantity of video produced across StackAdapt
• Develop repeatable formats, production systems, templates, and workflows that allow us to move faster without lowering the creative standard
• Build and manage a world-class network of directors, production companies, cinematographers, editors, animators, sound designers, and other creative partners
• Find ways to turn every major production into an ecosystem of content across CTV, digital, social, events, sales, product marketing, and owned channels

Requirements:

• A portfolio of exceptional commercial, brand, documentary, or customer storytelling work
• Experience taking productions from initial idea through concepting, pre-production, filming, post-production, and final delivery
• The creative ambition and production expertise to deliver national TV/CTV-caliber advertising
• Strong instincts for storytelling, casting, directing, cinematography, editing, music, sound, and pacing
• The ability to uncover compelling human stories from customers, employees, and executives
• Experience managing agencies, directors, production companies, freelancers, budgets, schedules, and complex shoots
• The ability to move comfortably between big-budget hero productions and fast, scrappy experimentation
• A strong understanding of how video performs across TV/CTV, YouTube, social, digital, events, and emerging channels
• A willingness to challenge conventional B2B marketing and push for work that is more ambitious, entertaining, and culturally relevant
• Experience managing full-time direct reports