The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring a Video Production Generalist to produce a range of video projects for our brand channels. The ideal candidate will oversee video projects from conception to completion: generating content ideas, producing storyboards and scripts, coordinating with external videographers and editors, and ensuring a regular output of high-quality short to medium-length videos, including some with custom 2D animations.

We expect this role to begin at 20 hours per week. That will potentially increase or even turn into a full-time role depending on your performance and our organizational needs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Produce videos end-to-end, from storyboarding through to filming and editing, aligned with FLI’s mission and cause areas.
  • Generate innovative content ideas based on our messaging goals.
  • Create detailed storyboards and scripts for video projects.
  • Perform filming and audio recording to generate content for our videos.
  • Compile, edit, and animate videos to a high degree of polish.
  • Prepare and format videos for publication on various platforms.
  • Collaborate with external videographers, editors, and animators.
  • Produce a consistent stream of short to medium-length videos.

Requirements:

  • Proven experience in video production, including planning, scripting, filming, and editing, preferably in topics related to technology, science, or global risk.
  • Proficiency in videography and audio capture, video editing, and 2D animation.
  • Ability to create compelling storyboards and scripts.
  • Strong project management skills and the ability to coordinate with external partners.
  • Creative mindset with a keen eye for detail and visual storytelling.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Passion for FLI’s mission and cause areas.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Background in film, media production, or a related field.
  • Familiarity with FLI’s areas of work, such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nuclear weapons.
  • Experience publishing on YouTube.
  • Knowledge of social media platforms and digital content strategies.

What We Offer:

  • Opportunity to leverage the technical expertise of our talented and experienced staff.
  • A publishing platform with a reputable brand (over 100K monthly searches for FLI brand terms) and multiple high-ranking web domains (org, artificialintelligenceact.eu, autonomousweapons.org) with a large volume of search impressions (4M per month) and regular visitors (20K per month).
  • YouTube channel with 150-300K average monthly views and 70K subscribers.
  • Flexible, remote working environment.
  • Collaborative and supportive team culture.
  • Potential to transition to a full-time role based on performance and organizational needs.

$30 – $65 an hour

Compensation will vary depending on experience and geography.

Application Process

Application Deadline: August 4, 2024. Rolling applications may be considered after the application deadline if the position has not been filled.

Application Process: Apply by uploading your resume, your portfolio / samples of your video work, and responses to the following questions:

– What do you think about existential risks? [200 words maximum]

– Write three ‘proposals’ for video content to be published on the FLI YouTube channel, with each proposal consisting of a title and a 1-2 sentence blurb. These videos should be focused on our cause areas and projects, and aim to attract new viewers to our channel.

FLI aims to be an inclusive organization. We proactively seek job applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you are passionate about FLI’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even though you may not check all the boxes, please still apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

Questions may be directed to [email protected].

About the Future of Life Institute

Founded in 2014, FLI is an independent non-profit working to steer transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Our work includes grantmaking, educational outreach, and policy engagement.

Our work has been featured in The Washington Post, Politico, Vox, Forbes, The Guardian, the BBC, and Wired.

Some of our achievements include:

– Pause Giant AI Experiments, an open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter has been signed by more than 30,000 people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.

– The Asilomar AI Principles, one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles.

– Slaughterbots, a viral video campaign raising awareness about the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons.

– The Future of Life Award, which retrospectively awards unsung heroes who made the world a better place. Past winners include individuals who prevented nuclear wars, helped to eradicate smallpox, and solved the ozone crisis.

– Worldbuild.ai, which imagines flourishing futures with strong AI and works out how to get there.

FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of 20 distributed across Europe and the US. We have offices in Campbell, California and in Brussels, Belgium, and meet in person as a full team twice a year.