Senior Video Storyteller

Socure Socure · Vertical AI · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Marketing

Senior Video Storyteller to own the vision, quality, and development of Socure's video content, focusing on social video and managing a decentralized capture model. This role requires strong storytelling, production depth, and the ability to set standards for distributed teams and freelance crews.

What you'd actually do

  1. The creative vision and narrative integrity of Socure's video work, from concept through final cut.
  2. Scriptwriting and storytelling that ladders directly to Socure's brand and business goals.
  3. Best-in-class social video, tuned to the platform, the audience, and the moment.
  4. A decentralized capture model—equipping and directing distributed teammates and freelance crews to shoot remotely.
  5. The pre- and post-production standards (shot lists, capture specs, file handling, brand guidelines) that keep decentralized footage edit-ready and coherent.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience owning video end to end—from blank page and blinking cursor to final export.
  • A portfolio that shows storytelling range and results, with real depth in social video.
  • Strong hands-on craft across cameras, lighting, audio, and editing (Premiere, Resolve, or equivalent)—enough to set the standard, even when others hold the camera.
  • Experience building or operating distributed/remote capture models, and managing vendors, partners, and freelance talent.
  • Producer-grade instincts for budgeting, scheduling, and on-set direction—used to protect the work, not bury it in process.
  • A relentless, self-directed approach to hard creative problems.

Nice to have

  • creative producer or director level
  • track record of standout, original work
  • fluent across social, digital, and broadcast
  • owning the full arc—strategy, ideation, production, and distribution
  • negotiate and manage the relationships

What the JD emphasized

  • storyteller first
  • production depth
  • decentralized capture approach
  • pre-production and post-production standards
  • creative capability
  • scaling teams or distributed creative networks
  • managing external partners, vendors, and freelance talent
  • ambitious video possible
  • relentless, self-directed bias
  • go deeper, iterate faster
  • don't quit on hard problems
  • own how the entire company captures and tells its story at scale
  • build the system, not just the next clip