Video & Social Media Producer

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The Communications and External Affairs (CXA) organization helps MITRE communicate with clarity, consistency, and impact across the audiences that matter most to our mission. The organization leads mission and enterprise communications, external affairs, executive communications, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, events, digital channels, and reputation management in support of MITRE’s public-interest mission.

MITRE is seeking an experienced Video & Social Media Producer to help shape how MITRE tells its stories across today’s rapidly evolving social media landscape.

This role will lead the strategy, development, and production of engaging, platform-native short-form video that brings MITRE’s people, expertise, research, innovation, and public-interest mission to life for external audiences.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, hands-on producer and AI-enabled creator who understands what makes social video compelling and effective while possessing the editorial judgment required to communicate complex technical, scientific, and government-related subject matter accurately and responsibly. This person will help MITRE move beyond simply creating "videos for social" toward a social-first video strategy intentionally designed around audience behavior, platform consumption, storytelling, and measurable performance.

The successful candidate will understand how AI is reshaping content strategy and production and will actively identify responsible ways to incorporate it into the creative process. This includes using AI to accelerate research and ideation, develop and test creative concepts, analyze transcripts and source material, and identify content opportunities.

This role requires someone who can move seamlessly between strategy and execution
-identifying what MITRE should create, why an audience should care, how the story should be told, producing the content, and using AI-enabled tools, audience insights, and performance data to determine what’s next.

• Develop and execute a short-form video content strategy aligned with MITRE’s enterprise social media, communications, brand, thought leadership, and audience objectives.
• Leverage approved AI-enabled tools to improve production efficiency across research, ideation, transcript analysis, clip identification, captioning, versioning, and other appropriate parts of the content workflow.
• Identify compelling stories across MITRE’s experts, research, programs, events, demonstrations, facilities, and thought leadership and translate them into social-first video concepts.
• Own short-form video projects from concept through delivery, including ideation, scripting, interviewing, shooting, producing, editing, graphics, captions, sound, and platform packaging.
• Develop strong hooks, story angles, interview concepts, expert explainers, recurring series, behind-the-scenes content, event coverage,…