Educational Video Director | Senior

Right now, we’re building a new content direction: long-form educational videos for our YouTube channel. Think science-pop meets hands-on tech — in the spirit of channels like Veritasium or MythBusters, but for the world of hardware hacking, radio protocols, and everyday tech experiments.
We already have a team of videographers, editors, designers, and technical writers. Now we’re looking for a Video Director — someone who can take a complex technical idea and turn it into a clear, engaging, and visually captivating 15–25 minute story from start to finish.
You’ll be the mind connecting storytelling, filmmaking, and technology — developing narrative structures, creating storyboards and animatics, writing visual references, and directing the entire production process. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of visual communication. Someone who can tell the videographer, “This exact caption should go here to make this narrative work.”
Responsibilities

• Own the full creative lifecycle of educational videos — from initial idea through scripting, storyboarding, filming, and post-production to final delivery

• Take a technical concept or experiment and develop it into a clear, compelling ~20-minute narrative that a non-expert can follow and enjoy

• Create detailed storyboards and, when useful, animatics (rough video mockups assembled from sketches) to communicate your vision to the team before filming

• Define how every element — footage, graphics, captions, music, and pacing — works together to tell the story

• Direct videographers on set: what to shoot, how to frame it, what visual approach best serves each part of the narrative

• Guide editors on timing, structure, and tone to maintain clarity and engagement throughout the video

• Collaborate closely with technical writers and engineers to ensure accuracy while keeping the story accessible

• Work with designers on graphics, animations, and visual assets that illustrate abstract concepts

• Maintain a consistent visual and narrative style across all educational content

• Participate in creative ideation sessions and help refine ideas for maximum viewer impact
  

Your Team
You’ll work alongside a dedicated production team. You won’t need to shoot or edit yourself — your job is to direct the process and make the story work.

• 2 videographers (who also handle editing)

• 2 designers

• 1 on-camera host / speaker (who is also a technical writer)

• 2 technical writers who can explain the underlying technology

• Head of Video (your primary reporting line)

Requirements

• Portfolio or examples of educational, documentary, or storytelling-driven video work

• 3+ years of experience in video direction, creative direction, or narrative-driven video production

• Strong understanding of visual communication and story structure — you can break down a complex topic into a sequence of clear, visual beats

• Experience creating storyboards and/or animatics as part of pre-production

• Proven ability to direct and coordinate a video team (videographers, editors, designers)

• Familiarity with the full video production pipeline: scripting, pre-production, filming, post-production

• Genuine curiosity about technology — you’re willing to dive into how things work (radio frequencies, firmware, protocols) even if it’s not your background

• Excellent communication skills in English

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience producing science-pop, explainer, or educational video content

• Background in design, motion graphics, or visual communication

• Hands-on experience with gadgets, hardware hacking, or engineering

• Ability to create animatics or rough video prototypes to communicate ideas

What We Offer

• Workplace in our stand-alone office in Design District, near North Greenwich Station (Jubilee Line), with all the amenities for a comfortable and creative workday

• Access to professional filming gear, computers, and software

• Benefits: VHI, corporate sports, foreign language courses, and therapy sessions

• Five-day workweek with a flexible start of the working day

• A chance to build the visual language of a new educational content direction from the ground up — inside one of the most creative tech communities in the world