Lead Video Producer

Lead Video Producer

Salary Rage: $100k-115k

About the Role

Holt Street is an EdTech company focusing on fostering learning and development for the K12 space. We are building Riptoes, a platform of short animated educational videos ("Riplets") for elementary students and the teachers who use them. We are building our first in-house production team and are looking for a Lead Video Producer. This individual will set the quality bar for content output and help lead other producers to do the same.

You will start by running a small proof-of-concept pilot with the Director of Product Management, scaling how we make a Riplet well, and serving as the individual contributor lead for a team of junior producers and a learning designer. We use a mix of traditional editing tools and AI tools across the pipeline, so this role needs both strong craft and a sharp eye for working with AI.

What You'll Do

You split your time between producing and leading. At full speed, about half your week goes to making videos end to end.

Content Production

• Create Riplets end-to-end: storyboard handoff, image and video generation, animation, voiceover, music scoring, and editing.
• Problem-solve for areas where AI breaks down, such as mechanics-heavy or athletic motion topics.

Set the Quality Standard

• Uphold the quality of content in accordance to our review rubric in: accuracy, appeal, engagement, and avoiding "AI slop."
• Catch visual and logic errors early (glitched faces, miscounted objects, impossible motion) and flag copyright risk in characters, music, and backgrounds.
• Run the first-pass review on every video so leadership sees each one once, not repeatedly.

Orchestration and Scaling

• Partner with the Director of Product Management to write the playbook for how we make and scale the content creation process.
• Help build and develop a team of junior producers.
• Work with the learning designer to optimize the storyboard writing and handoff direction to ensure consistency in quality output.

Help Manage the Production Process

• Manage the production queue and Frame.io triage, keeping production records current and feedback consolidated and de-duplicated.
• Work with the AI engineer and external production partners on pipeline tooling and handoffs.

What You Bring

Required

• 6+ years producing animated or motion video, with a portfolio of finished work and experience leading or mentoring producers or editors.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted production (image, video, voice, or music generation) and a clear view of where it breaks.
• A strong editorial eye: you can spot a glitch, a continuity error, or a factual slip in a rough cut and explain how to fix it.
• Comfort running a review process: giving specific feedback, consolidating comments from several reviewers, and holding a quality line.
• Fluency with professional editing, animation, and audio tools, and with review tools like Frame.io.
• Clear writing: you can document a process so someone else can run it.

Preferred

• Experience producing educational, children's, or K-12 content, or a strong feel for what holds a 7–10-year-old's attention.
• Experience building a production pipeline or team from scratch at a startup or small studio.
• Familiarity with Airtable, JIRA, or similar tracking tools, and with storyboard-to-animation workflows.
• Working knowledge of copyright and licensing for music, characters, and visual assets.
• Both 3D and 2D animation exposure; our visual style may evolve.
• Willingness to travel as needed for partner meetings, kickoffs, conferences, and team events.