Social Video Producer at Firecrawl in San Francisco, CA

Job description

• Application
• You'll turn what we're building at Firecrawl into videos people want to watch and share. A founder with a strong take. A quick look at something new in the product. A moment with the team worth capturing. You'll find the story, come up with the concept, shoot it, edit it, and publish it. Then you'll look at how it performed and use that to make the next one better.
• Your main focus is fast, natural short-form content made for social. You'll work mostly behind the camera, directing founders and teammates and bringing your own ideas to life, and occasionally help with more polished launch videos. You'll be based with us in San Francisco and travel to capture stories where they happen.
• Salary Range: $148,000–$168,000 USD/year
• Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.
• Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). On-site, five days a week. Travel required for shoots.
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Experience: 3+ years shooting, editing, and publishing short-form video, or a body of work that makes the case
• Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor US visas right now, though that may change down the line.

Responsibilities

• Turn "we should make a video about that" into a video. Spot something worth sharing, get behind the camera, and take it through the edit to publishing. Find the hook, nail the pacing, and make the sound and captions work for the story
• Develop recurring short-form formats around our founders, product, customers, and team that people come back for
• Work with product and engineering to understand what we're building and find a clear, interesting way to show it. They'll help with technical details and complex demos; you'll bring the storytelling and production craft
• Film in the office and on the road: launches, events, customer stories, conversations, and behind-the-scenes moments. Help people feel comfortable and natural on camera
• Support larger launch videos when needed with footage, edits, or social cutdowns
• Own the publishing calendar. Coordinate with the marketing team, prepare the copy and channel-specific versions, and get videos out while the story is still relevant
• Track views, watch time, retention, shares, and audience growth. Share which hooks, topics, and formats connect, and use that to decide what to make next

Requirements

• You have strong instincts for story, hooks, and pacing. You can spot a good moment and turn it into something someone else cares about
• You can run a lean shoot yourself: camera, sound, lighting, and directing. You're comfortable using a phone when it suits the idea
• You can take footage through a finished edit, including clean audio, captions, and color grading as needed. Use whatever tools help you do your best work, AI included
• You're curious about what we're building. You ask good questions and can work with teammates to turn unfamiliar ideas into clear stories. Familiarity with Firecrawl, open source, or developer tools helps, but it isn't required
• You've done this for real. You've filmed founders, customers, or events, or grown a recurring video series, and you can show the results. Motion graphics and animated product demos are a plus
• Backgrounds that often do well: in-house video producers at startups or developer tools companies, social video leads who've grown a recurring series, documentary or news shooters who moved into short-form, one-person production teams who've done every job on a shoot.

Skills

Required

• Strong storytelling instincts
• Curiosity
• Comfortable directing people on camera
• Self-starter, ownership mentality
• Video shooting (camera, sound, lighting)
• Social media publishing and analytics
• AI tools for video production

Benefits

• Available to all employees
• Salary that makes sense: $148,000–$168,000 USD/year, based on impact, not tenure
• Own a piece: Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build
• Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to recharge
• Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents
• Wellness stipend: $100 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
• Learning & Development: Expense up to $1,000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
• Team offsites: A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
• Sabbatical: 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
• Available to US-based full-time employees
• Full coverage, no red tape: Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works
• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs
• Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you
• Mental health: Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule
• Fertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partner
• EAP: Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian
• 401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
• Pre-tax benefits: HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit
• Supplemental options: Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLife
• Available to SF-based employees
• SF HQ perks: Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
• E-Bike transportation: A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us