Content Production Lead

Department: Marketing

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Reports to: Editor-in-Chief

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: (Depending on experience)

Role Overview

You'll lead Cambridge Spark's video and audio production — hands-on with the edit, and owning the oversight and quality of everything that goes out: thought leadership content, client and learner impact stories, event highlights, long-form interview content and the short, fast-turnaround cuts that drive our social channels every week. We'll work with agencies and freelance crews for filming, specialist production and our biggest projects. You'll do some of the filming yourself, and lead the edit on what follows, turning one shoot into a client story, a set of social cuts, a long-form interview edit and an event highlight — all built with best-in-class visual and motion storytelling.

You'll also manage the agencies and freelancers we use for bigger productions, own the production process end to end — brief, schedule, edit, sign-off — and work closely with editorial, marketing, sales and senior stakeholders to turn their ideas into finished content on time. And you'll set the studio up: the kit, the workflows and the templates that let the wider team record and edit simple content themselves with AI tools. It's a hands-on making role with room to shape a new function.

Key responsibilities:

• Edit and finish our thought leadership films, client and learner case studies, and long-form interview content, including cuts for social
• Capture and edit our flagship events, and turn them into content that brings the experience to people who weren't in the room
• Cut long-form footage into many short, fast-turnaround pieces for LinkedIn, the website, newsletters and sales
• Film smaller pieces yourself, from studio interviews to vox pops at events
• Manage our production agencies and freelance crews end to end — briefing, scheduling, quality control and budgets on bigger shoots
• Own the production process from brief to delivery, working closely with stakeholders across editorial, marketing and sales
• Set up and look after the in-house kit and a well-organised footage library
• Build templates and simple workflows so the team can make their own content with AI tools
• Track how video and audio perform, and use it to shape the next round

Candidate Specification:

Essential

• Five or more years editing video and audio professionally, in-house, at an agency or production company
• A showreel that shows strong visual and motion storytelling across long-form and fast-turnaround social content
• AI-native and fluent in professional video and audio editing tools — the specific suite matters less than speed and judgement (think Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Audition or Descript) — and able to turn that fluency into templates and workflows the wider team can use themselves
• Experience managing production agencies or freelance crews, and running a production process from brief through to delivery
• Regular, hands-on use of AI video and audio tools, and good judgement about when they help
• Agility and a great eye — able to move fast across several projects and deadlines, and spot the shot or cut that will actually land
• Strong collaboration skills, comfortable briefing stakeholders across editorial, marketing and sales and pushing back when a brief isn't clear

Desirable

• Camera and sound skills for small shoots
• Motion graphics and captioning
• Experience producing for a B2B audience, on LinkedIn or at live events
• An interest in AI and how it's changing work

Company Benefits:

• Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor

Background to our Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.

Our Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.