Culture Trip is a global hyper-growth startup operating in travel, media and entertainment. They create stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture. In-house creative teams work with a global network of more than 300 freelance creators to produce articles, videos, photography, illustration and animation.

From just a dozen people in late 2016, the team has expanded to more than 250. This diverse group of software engineers, product designers, data scientists, editorial experts and content creators are spread across offices in London, New York City and Tel Aviv. Alumni of companies
including Google, Facebook, Expedia, Lonely Planet, Viacom and the BBC have joined recently.

Series B funding of $80 million, led by the PPF Group, has further propelled rapid growth. Monthly unique visitors to the site have gone from four million to over 15 million, cross-platform social followers have increased from one million to seven million and app downloads have leapt
from 50,000 to over two million. Culture Trip videos have been viewed more than two billion times.

Everyone working at Culture Trip is driven by a shared vision: to inspire people to go beyond their cultural boundaries and connect with the world around them.

The Role

We're looking for a Video Team Coordinator to take ownership of the various parts of our video team operations, across post production, production and general ops.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Post production:
* Create weekly post-production schedule for all editors
* Maintain the edit queue, managing a balance between new projects with existing, high and low priority (non commercial) commissions
* Monitoring deadlines for all post jobs - ensuring they are on track to be met and troubleshooting when they haven't
* Ongoing work monitoring time it takes to edit films and helping the team find efficiencies in workflow
* Supporting the Senior Video Editor and Producers to ensure best practice is maintained in all organisational aspects of post production workflow
* Scheduling time for urgent requests and, where possible, gathering assets and rushes prior to handing over to editor
* Be the contact point and facilitator for our translation / transcription partner as our films are in multiple languages
* First point of contact for all ingest / download links from filmmakers
* Managing rushes process, via hard drives or DAM
* Checking rushes for errors, glitches etc. and ensuring all files are received

Production:
* Supporting the crewing process in pre and post production, and helping maintain our book of freelancers and suppliers
* Supporting the commercial ideas and production process where needed
* Working with other teams, including brand design studio, to have all elements of production ready for edit
* Working with other teams to ensure all assets are QC'd and ready for delivery, often to tight deadlines
* Provide a link between the on-site and social video teams, before, during and after production

General operations
* Helping team implement the move from hard drives to a DAM system and maintaining our log of content and capacity
* Being a super user of Monday.com to help monitor team's output
* Helping select our ongoing video of the week
* Working with other teams to launch video-led projects across media, on-site, micro-site or social channels
* Working knowledge of JW Player to support delivery and distribution of our video
* Troubleshooting people, team and process

Post production:
* Create weekly post-production schedule for all editors
* Maintain the edit queue, managing a balance between new projects with existing, high and low priority (non commercial) commissions
* Monitoring deadlines for all post jobs - ensuring they are on track to be met and troubleshooting when they haven't
* Ongoing work monitoring time it takes to edit films and helping the team find efficiencies in workflow
* Supporting the Senior Video Editor and Producers to ensure best practice is maintained in all organisational aspects of post production workflow
* Scheduling time for urgent requests and, where possible, gathering assets and rushes prior to handing over to editor
* Be the contact point and facilitator for our translation / transcription partner as our films are in multiple languages
* First point of contact for all ingest / download links from filmmakers
* Managing rushes process, via hard drives or DAM
* Checking rushes for errors, glitches etc. and ensuring all files are received

Culture Trip is committed to equality of opportunity for all. We strongly believe that diversity of backgrounds, ethnicities, experience, circumstances, abilities and perspectives leads to a better workplace for our employees and a better product for our users.