Responsibilities

• - Serve as Studio Z's videographer and internal content creator resource, bringing a strong visual point of view across a wide range of formats and conditions.
• - Design and execute lighting for interviews, narrative, and product setups. Often in uncontrolled locations adapting quickly to available resources and production limitations.
• - Capture clean, reliable production audio across interviews, scripted, vodcasts, and documentary-style shoots, including multi-cam and multi-mic situations.
• - Edit, mix, color, and finish your own work in Adobe Premiere Pro, versioning across channels from long-form YouTube to vertical social cutdowns. DaVinci Resolve experience is a plus.
• - Build or utilize motion graphics templates and animate product UI in After Effects, working from Figma product design systems.
• - Support concept development and shoot planning, contributing to creative direction, shot lists, storyboards, scouting, scheduling, talent and location logistics, and budget-conscious production decisions.
• - Own and maintain Studio Z's camera, lighting, and audio kit, and drive the equipment investments that expand and build out our internal capability.
• - Partner with the Post Production team to build out the systems and workflow connecting production to post — footage management, proxy workflows, shared templates and toolkits, delivery, backup, and archive — in a remote, cloud-based environment.
• - Direct and manage external vendors, on set crews, or in-house support crew
• - Share knowledge, document and improve workflows, and help elevate the team's creative and production capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years across video production, cinematography, editing, and motion graphics, with a reel of work you personally shot.
• Comfortable carrying a shoot on your own — scouting, lighting, miking, operating, wrapping — without dropping the quality bar.
• Deep camera and technical content creation expertise, with a real point of view about how something should look and why.
• Able to light and capture clean audio quickly in imperfect spaces, with whatever gear is on hand.
• Strong editor and storyteller, fluent in Premiere Pro (preferred) or DaVinci Resolve. Experience in After Effects and UI product animation from Figma design files is a plus.
• Experience with remote production and cloud-based post workflows such as LucidLink and Frame.io.
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and solutions-driven, and energized by building the systems and standards a growing team needs.
• Curious about AI and emerging creative tools as a way to work faster and better.
• Zillow description of role includes: 5+ years etc. (as above)

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in film, communications, design, or a related field preferred but not required.
• Photography and drone experience is a plus.
• DaVinci Resolve experience is a plus.
• Experience in After Effects and UI product animation from Figma design files is a plus.
• Experience with remote production and cloud-based post workflows such as LucidLink and Frame.io.