About the role
The Dodo is the #1 media brand for reach on mobile in the U.S., and the most engaged media brand globally across all content genres. We tell fun, entertaining, emotional stories about animals that make people laugh, cry happy tears, feel ALL the feels, and fall in love with animals.
The Dodo is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
The Dodo is seeking a creative and social-media savvy visual storyteller with experience creating content on Instagram and Tiktok to join our video team. To thrive in this role, you'll need to excel at sourcing and crafting an emotionally compelling narrative that hooks viewers immediately and keeps them watching. You'll produce social videos from start to finish — from sourcing content online from creators and other accounts, conducting interviews with talent and requesting extra footage, to scripting and structuring memorable, funny and emotional stories.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Create an allotted social videos, from start to finish: sourcing, producing and editing
Consistently pitch and bank strong projects with viral potential and meet monthly or quarterly deliverables
Produce videos from scratch with guidance from managers — conducting a pre-pro call with the talent, constructing a narrative, establishing a shot list that delivers on that vision, conducting interviews, and editing the produced footage into a cohesive story
Create and maintain strong relationships with talents — this includes regularly following their platforms for updates and establishing a regular pipeline of communication for future pitches
Brainstorm new ideas for both midform and shortform content
About the company
The Dodo is the #1 media brand for reach on mobile in the U.S., and the most engaged media brand globally across all content genres. We tell fun, entertaining, emotional stories about animals that make people laugh, cry happy tears, feel ALL the feels, and fall in love with animals. The Dodo is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.
