Video and Content Production Manager (Part Time)

Note: This is a part-time role (20 hours per week), but can grow to full-time.

Role Overview

Exponent is seeking a Video Production Manager to oversee our entire video production workflow, focusing on creating and editing mock technical interviews and managing our YouTube channel. This is approximately two or three 45-minute videos per week.

This role involves end-to-end management of video content, from scheduling to editing and publishing, while tracking key performance indicators and collaborating with content teams to align with Exponent's broader marketing and educational goals.

Having a background in creating or editing tech education videos is a plus.

About Exponent

Exponent helps people land their dream tech jobs. We've built an all-in-one interview preparation platform with written and video courses, peer-to-peer practice tools, and insider knowledge of tech’s most challenging interview questions.

We’ve helped 1M+ product managers, software engineers, technical program managers, product designers, solutions architects, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and more in their interviews at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and hundreds of other popular tech companies. We also partner with top universities, including Stanford, Yale, Duke, MIT, and more, to help students get great jobs after graduation.

Learn more about us on our website, YouTube channel, and blog.

📈 2025 Growth Timeline

• Q1 - Assume responsibility for overseeing the entire video production workflow and process at Exponent and begin managing the core KPIs.
• Q2 - Expand the video pipeline. Take the lead on production efficiencies:
  • Budgeting
  • Sourcing of SMEs
  • Managing writers, scripts, and hosts

🔑 Responsibilities

In short, we need someone to help us create and edit mock technical interviews with hosts and guests. We film 2-3 per week.

The role involves sourcing subject matter experts, scheduling sessions, managing a publishing schedule, and helping us to make our video production pipelines more efficient.

Video production management

Manage the entire process of producing and publishing mock interviews and scripted videos on YouTube.

• End-to-end management: This includes recording, editing, creating thumbnails, crafting engaging titles, and managing the production process by moving videos through our project management tracker, Notion, and communicating with stakeholders.
• Project Management: Coordinate with video hosts and guests to collect essential information such as code submissions, payment details, and headshots.
• Alignment: Align our video publishing schedule with our larger marketing and curriculum priorities. This involves planning and tracking the release of new content, such as machine-learning lessons and related mock videos as we publish new blog posts or lessons on these same topics.
• Info Sharing: Discuss upcoming video content in content sprint meetings, ensuring all projects are on track. Proactively identify bottlenecks that are preventing us from meeting goals or deadlines.
• Production Database: Maintain up-to-date records of upcoming and existing videos in our Notion databases.

Marketing channel management: YouTube

• KPI tracking: Be responsible for reporting on the key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure the success of the video content on YouTube.
  • This includes measuring against historical performance and general expectations for our channel, as well as reporting on trends and opportunity areas. e.g. What happened and what could we do next?
  • Provide regular reports on YouTube performance. Analyze successful content, identify trends, and make recommendations for future strategies based on what you know performs well or what’s trending in the marketplace. e.g. Shorter intros on mock interviews drive higher video retention.
• Comment Moderation: Moderate YouTube comments and mentions, ensuring a safe and professional environment by removing and reporting inappropriate comments and facilitating responses to new comments.
  • This involves checking the “Held for Review” column on YouTube Comments and approving relevant, constructive comments. Work with our team to reply to technical requirements.

📊 KPIs

Your primary responsibilities will be maintaining an efficient video production pipeline and ensuring the success of YouTube content. You will monitor and report on metrics such as these on a quarterly basis.

• Production rate / output: How many videos did we produce this quarter? Is that below or above expectations and how could we improve this process?
• Production budget + ROI: How much did we spend on video? What is our measurable outcome from that effort / investment?
• YouTube performance: Overall, you will own our channel’s “health.”
  • Video Views: This is a rough measure of a video's popularity, determined by the total number of views. Factors that influence view counts include the overall popularity of the role and the effectiveness of the video's thumbnail and title.
  • Engagement: This is calculated based on the total number of minutes watched. Elements that can affect engagement include viewer boredom, video length, and the effectiveness of content delivery by hosts.
  • Click-through Rate (CTR): This is a rough measure of how effective the thumbnail and title were. With substantial historical data across multiple roles on our Exponent channel, we can set a standard CTR for mock and scripted videos. You'll monitor the performance of videos and make recommendations for improvements in future content.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The Team

1. Curriculum
   • Role: Curriculum is tasked with creating world-class educational content for tech candidates, with mock interviews being our primary focus area. Additional video content can include gathering real interview experiences, collaborating with subject matter experts to prioritize key concepts and lessons, and suggesting improvements for both written and video materials to aid candidates.
   • Your Responsibility: Work with the Curriculum team to understand upcoming mock needs and to gauge what learners are interested in viewing in video format. Ensure alignment on the development of upcoming courses and lessons to meet educational objectives.
2. Marketing:
   • Role: Marketing determines the content and products that Exponent should produce or expand upon. This includes identifying the most popular careers, companies, and jobs.
   • Your Responsibility: Work with the Marketing team to understand Exponent's marketing goals each quarter. Align the video production strategy with these goals to ensure a cohesive approach.
3. Operations:
   • Role: Operations oversees Exponent's business strategy, manages the budget, and aligns team members behind common goals.
   • Your Responsibility: Work with the Operations team to understand Exponent's broader vision. Factor in budget constraints and bandwidth limitations given the team members' involvement in multiple products and initiatives.

The Interview

• Screening Call (15 miniutes): Get to know each other and discuss your content production experience.
• Take-Home: If the call goes well, we'll share a paid take-home project where you'll edit some raw video in our style and voice.
• Operations (30 minutes): Meet with our Operations team to discuss your project management skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders, manage production budgets, and move projects along.
• Marketing (30 minutes): Finally, meet with our Marketing team to discuss your editing and production style. And how you think about growing and scaling great content.

Compensation and Availability

This role is remote. It pays $40 to $50 per hour for 20 hours per week to start.

It involves two weekly check-in calls with our content and marketing teams over Zoom. Typically on Mondays and Tuesdays.

If you can help us grow our video production outputs with high-quality videos with experts, this role could expand to a full-time offer.