Founding Filmmaker & Video Lead

Responsibilities

• Build and run Kaizen Studio, setting the creative direction and visual identity across customer, candidate, and investor audiences.
• Produce cinematic customer films documenting Kaizen deployments in the field.
• Shoot documentary-style behind-the-scenes footage of the team, agency work, offsites, and on-site collaboration.
• Run a recurring recruiting film series covering team events, culture, and employee stories.
• Produce founder pieces and launch content tied to federal contracts and deployments.
• Own lean-shoot production end to end, including filming, editing, and delivery.
• Direct and brief contractors on larger productions and maintain creative quality standards.
• Scope shoots appropriately, determining when to work solo and when to hire a crew.
• Travel periodically to agency visits, offsites, federal sites, and other team locations.
• Eventually lead and grow an in-house production and editing team.

Requirements

• Experience producing and directing video solo or with a small crew from concept through final edit.
• A distinctive point of view on visual storytelling, beyond technical execution.
• Portfolio demonstrating cinematic storytelling, documentary-style capture, and content for customer-facing, recruiting, and executive audiences.
• Experience working directly with founders to shape company storytelling.
• Experience briefing and directing contractors on larger shoots.
• Good judgment in scoping productions and selecting solo or crew-based approaches.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site, including at federal sites.
• Experience using AI tools for pre-visualization, assembly, and cleanup, with a clear perspective on their appropriate use.
• Interest in embedding with a team long term rather than pursuing one-off freelance work.

Nice-to-haves

• Comfortable appearing on camera for lighter, scrappier content.
• Experience building an in-house creative studio or content function from scratch.
• Motion design and graphic design experience in video contexts.
• Experience filming in sensitive, access-limited, or bureaucratic environments such as government, healthcare, or defense.
• Experience with B2B creative studios or in-house brand and content teams at technology companies.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $140,000–$180,000.
• Real equity and a production budget.
• Fully covered employee and dependent medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• $100,000 fully paid life insurance; FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
• One Medical membership and fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
• 401(k) with a 2% company match.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum, federal holidays, and a company winter break.
• Company offsites throughout the year.
• Home office or desk setup stipend, commuter benefit, expensed office lunches, and company-provided laptop.
• Covered gym membership or fitness reimbursement for remote employees.
• Utility, professional development, recreation, and pet-care stipends.