Jobs at Dhar Mann Studios

Lead the creative vision, writing, storytelling standards, audience performance, and financial results for a flagship YouTube channel. Generate concepts, write and revise scripts, manage a high-volume pipeline producing five scripts weekly, use analytics to improve content, partner across production and distribution, control budgets and efficiency, and recruit and develop writers and creative producers. This in-person Los Angeles role requires hands-on creative leadership, fast decision-making, and strong operational and business judgment.

Lead the creative vision and business performance of the flagship YouTube channel. Develop ideas, write and refine scripts, manage a high-volume creative pipeline, use analytics to improve audience performance, oversee writers and creative producers, and partner with production, finance, distribution, and post-production. The role also owns budgets, workflow efficiency, team development, and delivery of five production-ready scripts weekly in a fast-paced, in-person environment.

The Assistant Editor supports post-production by organizing, relinking, syncing, and consolidating media and project files. They prepare VFX and color turnovers, manage digital assets and metadata, create proxies and alternate versions, QC final masters, maintain backups and archives, and track deliveries. The role requires strong Adobe Premiere Pro skills, knowledge of post-production formats and workflows, careful asset management, and proactive communication in a high-volume episodic content environment.

Serve as the founder’s trusted operational partner across business and personal affairs. Manage priorities, communications, calendars, travel, household and property operations, vendors, staff coordination, special projects, and accountability. Provide hands-on support, including driving, event assistance, and urgent problem-solving. Build productivity systems, automations, dashboards, and AI-enabled workflows while maintaining strict confidentiality and discretion in a demanding, primarily in-person environment.

Direct, shoot, and edit short-form cinematic videos from script to final cut. Responsibilities include creative shot planning, directing actors, operating cameras, overseeing composition and movement, editing for narrative pacing and emotion, and adding basic color correction and sound design. The role owns creative execution in a fast-paced studio environment and collaborates with writers and producers to create engaging, social-first content.

Supports the Automation Lead in designing, testing, and maintaining internal automation workflows. Responsibilities include writing lightweight scripts, managing documentation and task tracking, preparing reports, monitoring automations, troubleshooting issues, configuring agentic AI pipelines, researching tools, and gathering workflow requirements. This remote junior role offers mentorship and growth toward Automation Engineering or AI Operations.

Produce scripted digital content from ideation through final upload, managing on-set and post-production workflows, budgets, timelines, vendors, quality, and delivery. Collaborate across teams on multiple formats and platforms, develop production efficiencies, monitor audience and platform trends, and maintain commercially viable content aligned with the company’s family-friendly storytelling mission.

Designs and manages AI-powered workflows, administrative automations, SOPs, reminders, reporting systems, and process controls. The role identifies inefficiencies, builds reliable systems using AI and automation platforms, documents processes, monitors recurring operations, closes follow-up loops, trains team members, and partners with the Admin Manager to improve administrative performance and accountability.

Edit raw unscripted footage into compelling 2–3 minute short-form videos for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Identify strong storylines, shape emotional arcs, create hooks and satisfying payoffs, and optimize pacing for audience retention. Use music, sound design, captions, graphics, and reaction shots while preserving authenticity. Collaborate with producers through revisions and final delivery, create alternate versions for testing, and stay current with short-form trends and platform best practices.

Films social-first short-form content throughout greater Los Angeles as an independent field production team member. Responsibilities include operating an iPhone camera, recording clean audio, interviewing strangers, identifying compelling stories, obtaining participant releases, organizing production materials, and communicating with producers. The role requires empathy, strong interviewing skills, creative judgment, adaptability, reliable transportation, and sensitivity when documenting personal or difficult experiences.

Independently film four- to six-hour sessions in busy public locations using a smartphone. Approach and interview members of the public, capture 15–30 usable clips per session, obtain consent forms, handle sensitive moments empathetically, and organize and submit raw footage. No editing is required. Contractors must provide a high-quality smartphone, follow filming procedures, and work professionally with minimal supervision.

Lead accounting operations and financial controls for a fast-moving studio: manage GL, AP/AR, payroll reconciliations, month-end close, financial statements, cash forecasting, production finance reporting, systems integrity, internal controls, audits, and develop the accounting team to ensure accurate, timely, and GAAP-compliant financial information.

Provide high-quality color correction and creative grading for short-form narrative videos using DaVinci Resolve. Match shots, ensure cinematic, brand-aligned looks, collaborate with production, organize final files, and deliver fast, consistent output under tight deadlines.

Lead and build a scalable, accurate finance organization covering accounting, FP&A, tax, production finance, controls, cash strategy, and systems. Partner with CEO/executive team on strategy, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and operational finance decisions. Hire and develop finance team, oversee audits, banking, and external relationships, and ensure financial controls and actionable reporting for a fast-growing content studio.

Lead Editor responsible for creatively editing scripted short-form drama for YouTube and streaming: building emotion and tension, adding subtitles and branding, organizing final deliverables, and collaborating with producers under fast-paced schedules.

Compose and arrange original scores for YouTube, social, and streaming content; collaborate with production to set mood and tone; sync music, make adjustments, and meet tight deadlines while adhering to brand guidelines.

Create realistic live-action VFX (smoke, fire, water), build custom setups and templates, composite effects and screen replacements into plates, remove unwanted objects, troubleshoot post workflows, and deliver high-quality output on tight deadlines while collaborating with editors and directors.