Video Journalist

Job Description

OVERVIEW

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

ABOUT THE ROLE

CoStar is seeking a highly creative, detail-oriented Video Content Creator with a strong focus on video and motion graphic production and strategy, to assist in promoting CoStar and Homes.com's biggest news stories covering our markets. This is a fast-paced, hands-on production role ideal for someone who thrives in digital storytelling, stays ahead of platform trends, and knows how to translate complex real estate insights into visually compelling, scroll-stopping content. Prior editorial/newsroom experience desired.

Video content is increasingly taking a critical front door for CoStar’s news and Homes.com ecosystems, and your work will play a key role in expanding our reach, strengthening our brand presence, and translating complex real estate insights into compelling, accessible motion picture storytelling for a broad audience. As a key member of the News design team, you will develop motion assets, and short-form video tailored for Homes.com and CoStar websites, and their social media extension channels, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X, while collaborating closely with the broader CoStar Group and Homes.com teams to maintain consistency, responsiveness, and brand excellence across channels.

This role will help expand our storytelling capacity, support newsroom initiatives, and reinforce our position as the industry leader in commercial real estate news. It will be based on-site at our office in Arlington, VA.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce engaging daily video content for the company’s websites and social media platforms. Develop content that captures attention, reinforces editorial authority, elevates CoStar and Homes.com, and drives engagement

• Script, conceptualize, shoot, edit, and publish video stories entirely on your own.

• Turn breaking news and features into quick, punchy social clips

• Serve as a key member of the graphics team in efforts to enhance CoStar news and Homes.com news brand presence, by creating effective communication and relationships between the company and our subscribers (and prospects) and employ best SEO, and video practices when to increase engagement and grow number of subscribers

• Develop and curate engaging, SEO optimized video content and collaborate with newsroom, graphics and CoStar Group’s internal communications and marketing colleagues to plan social media calendar

• Help coordinate multimedia media production with the graphics team in a fast-paced news environment to ensure deadlines are met

• Produce long form interview videos; Edit and package short-form video for social platforms (Insta Stories, YouTube Shorts, TikTok)

• Demonstrate a sense of newsroom and social media best practices and sensibility for segmenting audience per site and per social media channels

• Work closely with reporters, editors, designers, and analysts to visually translate data, insights, and key editorial themes into accessible, engaging, per channel-appropriate, SEO optimized video content

• Research competitors, and commercial real estate industry news and marketing trends that encourage audience engagement

• Maintain unified brand voice across the company’s different publishing channels: adhere to brand guidelines to ensure news graphics are on style and on specs

• Collaborate with team members and editors to ensure consistent flow of videos newsroom produces

• Shadow news reporters when they attend industry events and produce videos and live social media content

• Record and produce in house interviews, and enhance the final output with graphics and animations

• Contribute to planning social campaigns around major reports, releases, and investigative pieces

• Work independently while within a team environment   

• Occasionally, contribute to the newsroom’s written content and copyediting efforts

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Video Production, Marketing, Visual Communication, Digital Media, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• Track record of commitment to prior employers

• 1–3 years of experience in digital design, preferably in social, editorial, news, or marketing environments

• A strong portfolio of self-shot and self-edited social videos. Please submit with your application

• Experience shooting video with modern cameras or mobile devices

• Strong skills in video editing and animation software,  Premiere Pro, and After Effects

• Deep knowledge of video styles,  social media trends, and algorithms

• Ability to work fast under tight daily news deadlines

• Ability to work quickly, creatively, and efficiently under tight deadlines

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Experience writing video scripts

The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

Base Compensation: $54,000-$72,000 Annually

What's In It For You?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. 

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement. 

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to): 

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug 

• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance 

• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family 

• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions 

• Employee stock purchase plan 

• Paid time off 

• Tuition reimbursement 

• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups 

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. 

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing