Shield AI is seeking a YouTube Producer to lead the development, production, publishing, and growth of the company’s YouTube channel. This role combines the craft and editorial judgment of a senior video editor with channel strategy, audience development, and performance ownership.
The YouTube Producer will turn Shield AI’s work in autonomy, aviation, defense, and artificial intelligence into clear, accurate, audience-focused stories. They will manage projects from concept through final edit, packaging, publishing, and analysis while partnering with technical experts, executives, and communications teams.
What you'll do:
- Own Shield AI’s YouTube programming strategy, editorial calendar, publishing cadence, and channel-growth plan.
- Develop and produce video concepts including explainers, product stories, interviews, flight-test content, event coverage, customer narratives, and short-form video.
- Lead projects from creative brief through scripting, interviews, production planning, editing, review, and delivery.
- Edit high-quality long-form and short-form content, including story structure, pacing, sound, graphics, color, captions, and final delivery.
- Package and publish videos using effective titles, thumbnails, descriptions, chapters, playlists, metadata, and calls to action.
Required qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in video production, post-production, digital media, editorial, or content marketing.
- Strong 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.
- Demonstrated 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.
- Ability to independently develop concepts and manage productions from idea through published video.
- Willingness to travel periodically for production, events, customer activities, or field shoots.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing or growing a YouTube channel for a technology, aerospace, defense, industrial, science, or mission-driven organization.
- Experience with camera operation, lighting, location audio, and directing interviews or on-camera talent.
- 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 working with regulated, security-conscious, or high-growth technology organizations.
What success looks like:
- A consistent YouTube publishing cadence that supports Shield AI’s brand and business priorities.
- Clear, compelling content that makes Shield AI’s mission, people, products, and technology more understandable to broad audiences.
- Stronger channel performance across watch time, retention, engagement, returning viewers, and subscribers.
- Reliable, scalable production workflows that maintain quality, accuracy, and security.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in video production, post-production, digital media, editorial, or content marketing
- Strong portfolio demonstrating video editing, visual storytelling, interview production, narrative structure, and digital-video judgment
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
- 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
- Ability to independently develop concepts and manage productions from idea through published video
- Willingness to travel periodically for production, events, customer activities, or field shoots
- Experience managing or growing a YouTube channel for a technology, aerospace, defense, industrial, science, or mission-driven organization
- Experience with camera operation, lighting, location audio, and directing interviews or on-camera talent
- 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 working with regulated, security-conscious, or high-growth technology organizations
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as excellent, with dental/vision and mental‑health support, and ancillary protections like life and disability appearing in benefit summaries. The breadth and perceived affordability of coverage are highlighted as a standout component of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is featured alongside enhanced maternity benefits, fertility and childcare support, and onsite resources such as a Mother’s Room. These elements are positioned as competitive and above the minimal baseline for the company’s stage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full‑time hires, with RSUs, double‑trigger tax timing, and tools to model scenarios (e.g., through Carta Tax). Communications also reference a transition from options to RSUs, reinforcing access and maturity of ownership programs.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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