Job Description
Who We Are
Planetizen is the most visited urban planning website in the United States, providing training, news, jobs, and continuing education across multiple products and services. Planetizen publishes 40 times a week, including news, analysis, and commentary, in addition to hosting regularly updated jobs and events boards. Planetizen Courses provides the leading online professional education website for planners and urban designers, with 350+ of the highest quality video courses available to subscribers. The Planetizen team works in a collaborative and entrepreneurial environment, where team members are encouraged to continue to learn, grow, and implement new ideas.
The Opportunity Planetizen is looking for a talented Video Producer & Editor to join our team. The Video Producer & Editor will be responsible for producing, filming, and editing high-quality video course content, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership for all new courses published on the platform. This role will also own Planetizen’s YouTube channel, with the goal to grow the channel to 100k subscribers in the first year.
This is the right role for a resourceful, tenacious, and growth-oriented team player, passionate about the potential of video to educate and contribute to the process of planning a prosperous, sustainable, and equitable built environment. Successful candidates will have experience in the urban planning industry, or a closely related field, and will recognize and value the terminology, concepts, and personalities of planning. The Video Producer & Editor is a key member of the team at Planetizen, working directly with the instructors, editorial manager, and marketing function to create educational content to inform the entire planning field—planners, designers, and citizens.
Key Deliverables - Educational Video Content Creation - Working with subject matter experts, produce best-in-class educational video content published on our website and social media channels that effectively communicates urban planning concepts, tools, and best practices. This involves planning, filming, editing, publishing, archiving, and reporting on video content.
- Audience Growth and Engagement on YouTube - Grow Planetizen's YouTube channel subscribers to 100k, focusing on creating captivating content that appeals to urban planners, students, and related professionals and leveraging YouTube analytics to inform content strategy.
- Analytics & Reporting - Understand and report video content performance and contribution to business goals. Make recommendations to process and content improvements. Regularly assess feedback from users and analytics to refine content strategies, ensuring that the video training remains relevant, current, and effectively meets educational goals.
- Team collaboration - Collaborate with content and marketing teams to plan, develop, create, and launch video content that achieves business objectives. Work closely with the editorial manager to identify trends, topics, and opportunities for new courses and content that meet the needs of the urban planning community.
Success metrics In your first 3 months - Learn about the Planetizen brand, content, products, and audience.
- Deliver a growth plan to reach 100k subscribers to our YouTube channel.
- Produce and publish your first video content.
In your first year - With support from the team, execute on the content strategy by producing and publishing video courses.
- Grow YouTube channel to 100k subscribers.
Qualifications - 2+ years of experience producing and editing high-quality educational or instructional video content, with a portfolio that demonstrates expertise in conveying complex concepts through video.
- Experience with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and other digital tools.
- Demonstrated experience in growing and managing a YouTube channel, including knowledge of YouTube SEO, content optimization, and audience engagement strategies.
- Experience with or strong interest in urban planning.
- Ability to work independently on a small team.
- Excellent time-management and organizational skills, with ability to manage multiple projects at different stages simultaneously
Location & Availability - This is a full-time role 9am-6pm PT (with 1 hour for lunch).
- Candidates must be local to Los Angeles or willing to relocate. This position is available partially remote (with about 4 days per month in our Koreatown office for shoots in the Planetizen studio) or fully in-person in our office.
About Planetizen - Planetizen is a community of planning intelligence—a one-stop source for planning news, editorials, book reviews, jobs, and education.
- Planetizen Courses is one of Planetizen's most successful products, with more than 350 courses published online and available to subscribers.
- Planetizen Courses are generally available for continuing education credits. Planetizen Courses instructors include some of the biggest names in the field, like Donald Shoup, Angie Schmitt, Lance Freeman, Jenny Schuetz, and Emily Talen.
- Planetizen is a sister company of Urban Insight and leverages the resources available to the Urban Insight team.
- The Planetizen and Urban Insight team totals more than 35 employees working all over the United States.
- Planetizen runs on the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS)
Why Work at Planetizen - Join a tenacious, collaborative, and growth-oriented team where your contributions make an impact.
- We work with you to create a career path catered to you.
- The average employee tenure is 6.5 years.
- We're stable. We've been in business for 23+ years and continue to grow each year.
- We offer a casual and flexible working environment. We believe in life/work balance.
- The right candidate will find numerous opportunities for growth.
- We allocate time for training and professional development.
Compensation We offer a highly competitive salary which depends on your qualifications, experience, education, and certifications. Our salary package includes:
- 60-70K Base (DOE)
- Paid time off (15 days increasing to 20 after four years)
- Holiday time off (~10 days per year).
- Medical, Dental & Vision insurance (Employer selected plan, paid at 95%)
- Company-sponsored 401(k) plan with employer match (after 60 days).
- Performance and compensation reviews annually.
To Apply
Please apply on this page. This position is open until filled. Thanks for your interest in working with us at Planetizen.
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