Head of Video

Responsibilities

• Proactively pitch social concepts and recurring formats that serve the C&S roadmap. Build a consistent body of work with a clear audience, purpose, and point of view.
• Turn briefs into creative treatments, scripts, interview approaches, and capture plans. Establish the message, hook, narrative structure, channel versions, and timing before production.
• Make deliberate choices about pacing, length, visual style, and format. Use audience response and performance insights with C&S to improve the work over time.
• Own narrative development and write scripts, story outlines, and interview questions. Work with copywriting support, when assigned, on concepts, scripts, interview preparation, and paper edits while retaining overall narrative responsibility.
• Shape each shoot’s creative direction, including subjects, visual references, scenes, shot priorities, and coverage needed for the edit. Partner with the Video Editor & Shooter on practical capture plans.
• Direct on set and prepare executives, customers, and other non-professional talent to give natural, specific answers. Guide framing, lighting, and performances in service of the story.
• Partner with creative producers and external production companies to scale production up or down based on each project’s scope, budget, and creative needs, while maintaining a clear creative vision and Harvey’s standards.
• Partner with Product Marketing and subject-matter experts to make product features and workflows clear, accurate, and useful for our audience.
• Guide the editor from selects and assemblies through finished assets. Shape story, hooks, sequencing, pacing, sound, and finishing with clear, actionable feedback.
• Stay accountable through delivery, ensuring the final videos and channel versions meet the brief, agreed timing, and creative standards. Resolve competing feedback and flag decisions that affect scope or deadlines.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in video, filmmaking, or creative direction, with demonstrated experience consistently creating and delivering social content.
• A portfolio showing original concepts, strong writing and storytelling, and sound judgment around hooks, pacing, formats, and audience response.
• Experience developing and improving recurring series, with clear examples of how audience insights informed creative decisions.
• Proven ability to translate briefs into scripts, interview approaches, capture plans, and finished assets that meet the message, channel, and deadline.
• Experience directing professional shoots and working with executives, customers, and non-professional talent.
• Strong editorial judgment and the ability to guide editors with precise feedback on narrative, pacing, sound, and finishing.
• Experience leading creative talent and external partners, balancing planned programming with shorter production timelines and realistic team capacity.
• Clear communication and the ability to align stakeholders, explain creative decisions, and remain accountable through final delivery.

Preferred

• Experience on an in-house content or social team at a growing technology, SaaS, or B2B company.
• Experience making product demonstrations and complex professional subjects accessible through video.
• A network of freelance editors, writers, and production partners, and an interest in AI and the legal industry.