Senior Manager of Post Production

Wedding Weekender | Senior Manager of Post-Production

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Company Description

Wedding Weekender is redefining wedding videography by helping couples capture their wedding weekends in an authentic, affordable way. We rent camcorders for family and friends to film the weekend, then our team organizes the footage and edits it into a wedding video that feels true and unique to each couple's celebrations.

We're a fast-growing, creative start-up building a scalable post-production team to deliver high-quality, on-brand wedding films at volume. Since our launch this year, we've been featured in the New York Times, Vogue Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, and more. We're looking for an experienced Senior Manager to lead our editing team and build the standards, systems, and people that make every Wedding Weekender film feel personal and polished.

Role Description

This is a full-time role (remote-friendly) for a Senior Manager of Post-Production at Wedding Weekender. You'll own the quality, performance, and development of our post-production department, leading both our internal team and our distributed network of freelance editors.

A major focus of this role is quality: defining what great looks like, making sure those standards are applied consistently across hundreds of projects, and training the Post-Production Specialists and Quality Reviewers who evaluate the work. You'll stay close to the films being produced through regular audits, quality data, customer feedback, and revision trends. When quality starts to drift, you'll spot it quickly and turn it into better coaching, clearer standards, stronger training, or improved processes.

You'll also make sure projects move through post-production on time, strong editors are retained and developed, new editors come in through a structured onboarding program, and we have enough editing capacity ahead of demand. As the department grows, success in this role means raising the quality bar and building the systems that maintain it, rather than personally touching every film.

Core Responsibilities

Post-Production Team Leadership

• Lead, manage, and develop Wedding Weekender's internal post-production team and freelance editor network.
• Set clear responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations across the department.
• Hold regular 1:1s with direct reports and provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and development.
• Develop team members and delegate ownership as the department grows.
• Identify and address performance issues proactively.
• Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and exceptional creative standards.
• Own overall department performance, including quality, turnaround time, editor performance, capacity, and successful project delivery.

Creative Direction & Quality Control

• Own the overall quality of Wedding Weekender's finished wedding films.
• Define and continuously evolve Wedding Weekender's standards for storytelling, pacing, music, color, audio, graphics, technical execution, and overall polish.
• Build and oversee a consistent, scalable quality-control system across post-production, with clear review stages, ownership, standards, and escalation paths.
• Ensure reviewers have the training, tools, examples, and guidance necessary to make consistent creative decisions and provide effective feedback to editors.
• Regularly audit finished work and review decisions to ensure Wedding Weekender's standards are being applied consistently across editors, reviewers, and projects.
• Step into individual projects when significant creative issues, unusual circumstances, or difficult judgment calls require senior-level guidance.
• Monitor customer revisions, internal quality reviews, editor performance, and other quality signals to identify recurring issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Identify inconsistencies between reviewers or editors and address them through clearer standards, calibration, training, or process changes.
• Maintain and evolve creative resources including LUTs, presets, style references, pacing frameworks, storytelling guidelines, project templates, and delivery specifications.

Editor Team Management & Development

• Establish clear expectations for editor quality, reliability, communication, turnaround time, and overall performance.
• Develop and maintain editor performance standards, feedback systems, and quality benchmarks.
• Regularly evaluate editor performance and identify opportunities for coaching and continued development.
• Determine when editors need additional training, adjusted project volume, or other performance intervention.
• Identify high-performing editors and create opportunities for increased responsibility and project volume.

Editor Onboarding & Training Program

• Build and continuously improve Wedding Weekender's editor onboarding and training program.
• Create a structured path that takes a new editor from initial trial through becoming a reliable, fully integrated member of the editor team.
• Develop training materials, examples, assessments, quality checkpoints, and documentation editors need to succeed.
• Establish clear criteria for when editors have successfully completed onboarding and are ready to receive regular project volume.
• Use quality results, revision data, and editor performance to identify gaps and improve the program.
• Initially play an active role in onboarding and training while the program is being built.

Editor Recruiting & Talent Pipeline

• Partner with the broader team to identify strong editing talent as capacity needs grow.
• Participate in candidate evaluation, skills assessments, and decisions about whether editors meet Wedding Weekender's creative and performance standards.
• Define and continuously refine the profile of a successful Wedding Weekender editor based on performance and quality data.
• Maintain visibility into current and projected editor capacity and proactively identify when additional talent is needed.
• Partner with Operations and recruiting resources to ensure the editor pipeline keeps pace with forecasted demand.

Post-Production Systems & Scalability

• Own and continuously improve the overall post-production workflow.
• Partner closely with Operations to improve how projects move through footage preparation, assignment, editing, review, revisions, quality control, and final delivery.
• Identify bottlenecks, recurring manual work, and processes that will not scale as volume increases.
• Determine what should be standardized, automated, delegated, or redesigned.
• Build systems that reduce dependence on individual knowledge and allow the department to operate consistently as the team grows.
• Partner on internal tools, portal functionality, automation, and AI-assisted workflows that improve efficiency and output quality.
• Create and maintain clear post-production SOPs, standards, and documentation.

Performance, Capacity & Workforce Planning

• Maintain visibility into editor performance and capacity across the team.
• Monitor key indicators such as turnaround time, revision volume, quality issues, reliability, and available editing capacity.
• Monitor department-level quality trends and identify where standards, reviewers, editors, training, or processes need improvement.
• Identify trends and intervene before individual issues become broader operational or quality problems.
• Partner with Operations to forecast editing capacity against expected project volume.
• Proactively identify future staffing and freelance editor needs.
• Develop the editor team structure needed to support future volume, including editor tiers, specialization, project allocation criteria, bench depth, and development paths.
• Use performance and quality data to inform recruiting, onboarding, coaching, project allocation, and editor development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional video editing or post-production experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing a post-production, video editing, production, or similar creative team.
• Demonstrated experience training, developing, and providing ongoing performance feedback to professional video editors.
• Exceptional creative judgment and the ability to clearly articulate why an edit is or is not working.
• Strong ability to evaluate creative work across a team and maintain consistent quality standards across multiple editors or reviewers.
• Experience managing both internal team members and freelance or contract creative talent strongly preferred.
• Experience building or significantly improving post-production workflows, quality-control processes, training programs, or creative systems.
• Strong understanding of Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and workflows.
• Strong understanding of color grading, pacing, narrative structure, audio, and music-driven editing.
• Comfortable using performance and quality data to make decisions about people, capacity, training, and workflow.
• Strong communicator who can give clear, constructive feedback and hold team members accountable.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally in a fast-moving, growing company.
• Experience in wedding videography, documentary-style storytelling, or another story-driven editing environment strongly preferred.

Bonus

• Experience scaling a distributed post-production or creative team.
• Experience building or overseeing a multi-stage creative review or quality-control process.
• Experience developing structured editor training or onboarding programs.
• Experience creating LUTs, presets, templates, or other standardized post-production resources.
• Experience with workflow automation or AI-assisted post-production tools.
• Background in a production company, creative studio, agency, or high-volume post-production environment.

Compensation

• Competitive salary based on experience (estimated range: $90,000-115,000).
• Competitive paid time off and company holidays in accordance with company policy.
• Opportunity to shape post-production operations at a fast-growing, nationally recognized wedding brand. xhyhwjd
• Opportunity for role expansion as the company grows.