We are seeking an organized, creative, and client-focused Video Project Coordinator to lead and manage our marketing video product line. This role will oversee video projects from initial concept through final delivery, working closely with clients, internal partners, and external production vendors.
The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and project coordinator who can develop compelling video concepts, write effective scripts, coordinate production resources, manage vendor costs, and oversee a high volume of projects while maintaining quality, timelines, and budgets.
Key Responsibilities- Manage the day-to-day operations and continued growth of the company’s marketing video product line.
- Collaborate with clients and business partners to understand their goals, target audiences, messaging, and creative vision.
- Develop video concepts, creative briefs, treatments, and storyboards.
- Write clear, engaging video scripts that align with client objectives and brand guidelines.
- Coordinate with external video production vendors, including videographers, editors, voiceover artists, and other creative professionals.
- Manage video vendor costs, negotiate pricing, and ensure projects remain within approved budgets.
- Manage the production process from pre-production and filming through editing, revisions, and final delivery.
- Review video footage and edits to ensure quality, accuracy, brand consistency, and alignment with the approved creative direction.
- Track and project manage a high volume of video projects simultaneously.
- Establish project timelines, communicate deadlines, and provide regular updates to clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Manage client feedback and revision requests while keeping projects on schedule and within scope.
- Develop project quotes and cost estimates based on production requirements, timelines, locations, talent, equipment, and editing needs.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, budgets, schedules, vendor costs, and production records.
- Identify opportunities to improve production workflows, vendor relationships, turnaround times, and overall product quality.
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, film, media production, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience managing video production, creative services, marketing, or multimedia projects.
- Strong scriptwriting, storytelling, and creative-development skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, budgets, and stakeholders at the same time.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality work.
- Experience working directly with clients and translating business objectives into creative concepts.
- Ability to develop accurate project scopes, quotes, and production estimates.
- Experience managing vendor relationships, pricing, and production costs.
- Familiarity with video production processes, including pre-production, filming, post-production, editing, and final delivery.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration platforms.
- Experience working in an agency, digital marketing, media, or client-services environment.
- Experience managing external video production vendors and freelancers.
- Familiarity with video editing software and production equipment.
- Knowledge of video marketing strategies for websites, social media, paid advertising, and other digital platforms.
- Experience developing scalable video products or production workflows.
The Video Project Coordinator will consistently deliver high-quality video projects that meet client objectives, remain within scope and budget, and are completed on time. This individual will also help strengthen our video product offering by improving processes, controlling vendor costs, expanding production capabilities, and creating an excellent experience for clients and partners.
Salary:
$50-$75K
About Hearst Newspapers:
With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP represents a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate.
At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories – growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms – to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, film, media production, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience managing video production, creative services, marketing, or multimedia projects
- Strong scriptwriting, storytelling, and creative development skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, budgets, and stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality work
- Experience working directly with clients and translating business objectives into creative concepts
- Ability to develop accurate project scopes, quotes, and production estimates
- Experience managing vendor relationships, pricing, and production costs
- Familiarity with video production processes including pre-production, filming, post-production, editing, and final delivery
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration platforms
- Experience working in an agency, digital marketing, media, or client-services environment
- Familiarity with video editing software and production equipment
- Knowledge of video marketing strategies for websites, social media, paid advertising, and other digital platforms
- Experience developing scalable video products or production workflows
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
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What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
