Media & Storytelling • Full-Time
Digital Media & Transformation Content Producer
Captures and edits cinematic, high-retention before-and-after property restorations for YouTube, TikTok, and corporate sponsor campaigns. $52,000 - $62,400 annualized.
- $25-$30/hour
- Austin, TX Metro
- Full-Time
Your mission impact
Storytelling that generates digital ad revenue and brand sponsorships, funding more free yard rescues for seniors and veterans.
The split week
Full-Time or Part-Time. Field shoots on Friday community transformation days plus in-studio editing.
About the role
Yard Reboot Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity in Austin that funds free yard restoration for seniors, disabled veterans, and homebound neighbors by running a paid commercial landscape business. The transformations are extraordinary and almost nobody sees them. That is the problem you are here to solve.
As Digital Media & Transformation Content Producer you own the camera, the edit, and the publishing calendar. You film the Friday community relief builds and the commercial installations, cut them into episodes and short-form verticals, and publish across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and our site. Your work does two jobs at once: it recruits donors and paying clients, and it documents the housing insecurity that puts these homeowners at risk in the first place.
You will have unusual creative latitude and unusually high standards to meet. Every homeowner is filmed with explicit written consent and treated with dignity - we tell restoration stories, never poverty spectacle. If you can hold a story together and you want your reel to mean something, this is a rare seat.
Why take this job
Full creative ownership of a real, ongoing documentary series with a built-in emotional engine - and a direct line from your audience growth to how many neighbors we can rescue next quarter.
A day in this role
- Tuesday - Pre-production: storyboard the week's build, confirm homeowner consent, prep batteries, cards, audio, and drone.
- Wednesday - Commercial shoot day: capture install b-roll, client testimonial, and process detail for a paid-services piece.
- Friday - Full-day relief build coverage: before walk-through, crew work, homeowner interview, and the reveal.
- Monday - Edit block: assemble the long-form episode, cut three to five verticals, color, sound mix, captions.
- Ongoing - Publish, write titles and descriptions with search intent in mind, respond to comments, and report on what performed.
- Monthly - Deliver a photo and clip library to the development team for grant applications and donor updates.
What you will do
- Capture 4K field footage, high-fidelity location audio, and emotional homeowner interviews.
- Edit weekly long-form YouTube episodes and short-form reels optimized for retention.
- Produce seamless sponsor integrations and equipment featurettes.
- Optimize video titles, thumbnails, and descriptions for maximum organic click-through.
What we are looking for
- Demonstrated portfolio in YouTube content creation and outdoor field videography.
- Advanced expertise in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve and audio post-production.
- Comfortable working in active outdoor Central Texas field conditions, including gimbal and drone work.
Nice to have
- A portfolio or reel showing documentary, nonprofit, or brand storytelling work.
- Fluency in Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, plus basic color and audio finishing.
- YouTube channel growth experience: titling, thumbnails, retention editing, and analytics.
- Part 107 drone certification, or willingness to earn it on paid time.
- Comfort interviewing older adults and veterans with warmth and patience.
Tools & equipment we provide
- Company camera body, lenses, gimbal, wireless lav audio, and drone.
- Adobe Creative Cloud license and cloud media storage.
- Field kit for hot-weather shooting, plus scheduling and publishing tools.
Physical requirements
- Carry a 25-35 lb camera kit around active job sites for most of a shoot day.
- Work outdoors in Central Texas heat alongside working crews, with paid breaks.
- Valid Texas driver's license for travel to sites across the Austin metro.
Pay & benefits
- Dedicated camera and high-fidelity audio equipment suite.
- Creative ownership over brand voice and mission-driven storytelling.
- Flexible editing hours and performance incentives tied to digital ad revenue.
Where this role leads
- Months 1-3: establish the episode format, publishing cadence, and consent workflow.
- Months 4-12: grow the channel and build a repeatable short-form engine tied to donation conversion.
- Year 2+: Media Program Lead - direct a small production team and own the storytelling budget.
Our hiring process
- 1Apply here with a link to your reel or portfolio in the link field.
- 230-minute conversation about the work and the stories you want to tell.
- 3Paid short assignment: shoot and cut a 60-second vertical from one of our build days.
- 4Reference check and offer.
Equal opportunity, ADA & veteran statement
Yard Reboot Project, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
In line with the Americans with Disabilities Act, we provide reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities during hiring and on the job, just ask. As a charity founded to serve veterans, we actively encourage protected veterans and military spouses to apply.