Senior Director of Content Production
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The Senior Director of Content Production will lead JoVE’s content production department of 100+ content creators, animators, and media producers, delivering high-quality science research and education videos for K–12, higher education, and corporate learning worldwide.
This role will set and execute the content roadmap, scale operations, and drive efficiency across the end-to-end content lifecycle with AI-driven workflows, automation, and continuous adoption of emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead the content production team of 100+ delivering 5,000 videos annually for Higher Education, K–12, and Corporate Learning.
- Own the end-to-end content production roadmap and ensure teams deliver against agreed timelines, quality standards, and targets.
- Scale AI-driven workflows and automation to improve productivity, quality, and cost efficiency.
- Set clear goals and KPIs for teams and individuals, and regularly review performance and productivity.
- Continuously optimize the production process, eliminating bottlenecks and improving workflows to meet the growing volume and complexity of content.
- Own vendor strategy, balancing internal capabilities and external partners to scale efficiently.
- Work closely with Product, and other leadership teams to align production plans with business priorities.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience managing large-scale video content production; EdTech experience a strong plus!
- 5+ years of management experience leading large, multi-tiered teams of 40+.
- Strong experience in setting goals, KPIs and managing team performance is required.
- Proven track record scaling production throughput and capacity while maintaining high-quality standards.
- Demonstrated success implementing AI and automation in content or video production.
- Strong operational and analytical capabilities, with experience using KPIs to identify bottlenecks and improve performance.
- Experience managing vendors and outsourced production preferred.
- Experience with production and workflow management platforms such as Asana, Jira, or Frame.io preferred.
Benefits
- A competitive compensation package.
- You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and education.
- Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration.
- Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us.
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JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is the premier, peer-reviewed scientific video journal, STEM education platform, and digital laboratory infrastructure powerhouse engineered to operate as the definitive visualization and reproducibility layer for global academic and biopharmaceutical research. The company completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional scientific publishing—where researchers and students struggle to replicate complex experimental methodologies, laboratory protocols, and physical hand movements from static, text-only journal scripts—by deploying high-definition, step-by-step video publication pipelines. Moving far beyond traditional, text-based academic archives or unvetted media libraries, JoVE natively unifies its indexed video journal (abstracted in PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus) with its specialized JoVE Science Education, JoVE Core, and JoVE Lab Manual frameworks into a single high-availability learning ecosystem. The platform empowers millions of scientists, professors, and students across thousands of prestigious universities and life-science centers globally—including Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford—to optimize training velocities, reduce laboratory resource waste, and maximize experimental success rates with elite precision. Under the hood, its sophisticated technical core natively orchestrates global, multi-region video production networks, custom interactive STEM quizzes, and AI-driven classroom curriculum mapping integrations. What sets JoVE apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing scientific ambiguity with absolute visual proof; by bridging the gap between intricate low-level physical manipulations and high-concurrency cloud-scale educational delivery, the firm enables global scientific networks to eliminate replication bottlenecks, supercharge academic literacy, and accelerate commercial and medical research innovations.
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