Do you have experience leading multimedia production across digital, live event and exhibition environments?
Are you a creative storyteller with a passion for technology and education?
We are currently in search of a Director of Video and Media Production for the Computer History Museum. This position is hybrid in Mountain View, CA.
ORGANIZATION: Computer History Museum
LOCATION: Mountain View, CA
POSITION TITLE: Director of Video and Media Production
SCHEDULE: Full-Time
DURATION: Permanent
SALARY RANGE: $130k - $140k
Is This Your Dream Job? At the Computer History Museum, the mission is to decode technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity. Through research, events, artifacts, and oral histories, CHM convenes, informs, and empowers people to shape a better future.
Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, the Director of Video and Media Production is responsible for shaping and executing interpretive and storytelling solutions for visitor and audience experiences across multiple platforms. This role leads the creative and technical direction of all video production, including live event capture, narrative storytelling, exhibition media, digital platforms, multimedia installations, and potential broadcast television.
Our Ideal Candidate:
- 5–7+ years of direct multimedia production experience, ideally within educational, museum, nonprofit, or mission-driven environments
- Experience producing educational, museum, or nonprofit multimedia projects
- Strong experience with studio and remote video production, live audio recording, still photography, and multimedia editing
- Experience creating content for social media platforms, including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, and similar channels
- Understanding of short-form storytelling, vertical video production, captioning strategies, audience engagement, and content optimization
- Ability to manage multi-camera productions, live event recordings, and on-location shoots
- Experience managing project scopes, schedules, budgets, vendors, and freelance production teams
- Ability to translate complex subject matter into engaging, accessible media experiences for diverse audiences
- Experience collaborating with curatorial, exhibitions, education, marketing, communications, and development teams
- Strong technical proficiency operating and maintaining video production equipment, editing systems, and production workflows
- Experience mentoring junior production staff and supporting team development
How You Will Spend Your Day:
- Develop interpretive and storytelling strategies across onsite, digital, and broadcast platforms
- Direct the conceptualization, production, and presentation of video content, including exhibition media, educational programming, marketing content, and storytelling features
- Lead and oversee the capture and presentation of live events, including lectures, panels, performances, and public programs
- Produce content for digital platforms, in-museum displays, multimedia exhibits, and social media channels
- Adapt long-form and event-based content into short-form, social-first video assets
- Collaborate across departments to create engaging, accessible, audience-centered content
- Manage production schedules, scopes, budgets, contractors, and deliverables
- Record and edit video and audio content for digital, onsite, and broadcast-quality experiences
- Oversee media asset management, production standards, workflows, and long-term preservation practices
- Mentor the Associate Media Producer and support professional development
- Research and implement new production tools, technologies, and workflows
We’d love to hear from you.
If this sounds like the job for you, we would love to help make that happen. Please apply using the link below.
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Careers In Nonprofits is an equal opportunity employer. Empowered by the #ILoveMyJob mission, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment within the nonprofit sector.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regretfully can only respond to those candidates who best meet the requirements of a specific position or whose backgrounds are generally applicable to our client base. Please rest assured that we retain all candidate information for possible future matches, even if you do not hear from us in regard to your application in response to this ad.
