Senior Staff YouTube Producer (AI/Defense)

Location: Dallas, Texas, United States; on-site

Salary: $140,000–$200,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular full-time employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including autonomy software, aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Own the YouTube programming strategy, editorial calendar, publishing cadence, and channel-growth plan.
• Develop and produce explainers, product stories, interviews, flight-test content, event coverage, customer narratives, and short-form videos.
• Lead projects from creative brief and scripting through interviews, production planning, editing, review, and delivery.
• Edit long-form and short-form content, including story structure, pacing, sound, graphics, color, captions, and final delivery.
• Package and publish videos using titles, thumbnails, descriptions, chapters, playlists, metadata, and calls to action.
• Analyze channel performance and build scalable production workflows that maintain quality, accuracy, and security.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in video production, post-production, digital media, editorial, or content marketing.
• Portfolio demonstrating video editing, visual storytelling, interview production, narrative structure, and digital-video judgment.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and working knowledge of After Effects, Photoshop, Audition, DaVinci Resolve, or equivalent tools.
• Experience producing and publishing content for YouTube or similar digital-video platforms.
• Strong understanding of YouTube packaging and analytics, including thumbnails, titles, audience retention, click-through rate, watch time, and subscriber growth.
• Willingness to travel periodically for production, events, customer activities, or field shoots.

Nice to have

• Experience growing a YouTube channel for a technology, aerospace, defense, industrial, science, or mission-driven organization.
• Camera operation, lighting, location audio, and interview or on-camera talent direction experience.
• Experience managing freelance editors, motion designers, production crews, agencies, or vendors.
• Familiarity with YouTube Shorts and adapting long-form content for short-form distribution.
• Experience with regulated, security-conscious, or high-growth technology organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Employment is contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Work supports defense, autonomy, aviation, and artificial intelligence missions.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.