Production Executive

Pearldrop is looking for a talented, energetic and highly capable Production Executive to join our growing production team.

Established in 2003, Pearldrop is a full-service creative film agency based in Stevenage, covering the whole of the UK and beyond. Our services include production, editing, animation, aerial photography and videography and stills. We work with a wide range of businesses, large corporations, schools and universities, national and local charities and government agencies.

Location: Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre, Lytton Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 1LZ

Start Date: September/October 2026

This is a true 50/50 production and post-production role, with the opportunity to travel all over the UK, and occasionally into Europe, for shoots.

You will spend around half your time out on location: operating cameras, setting up lighting and sound, filming interviews and B-roll, setting up and operating gimbals, and working as part of a small professional crew. Our productions take us to clients and locations across the country, so this is a role with plenty of variety, travel and hands-on filmmaking.

The other half of your time will be spent in post-production at our Stevenage base, editing complete client films in Adobe Premiere Pro, creating graphics and animation in After Effects, shaping stories from interviews and rushes, selecting music, working with sound and colour, and taking projects through revisions to final delivery.

We are looking for someone who is genuinely strong on both sides of filmmaking: someone equally comfortable building a camera rig and building an edit; who understands how to create great material on location and then knows what to do with that material in the edit suite.

You might spend one day filming interviews in London, another editing a live event film at our Stevenage studio, and later that week be travelling across the country — or occasionally overseas — for another production.

If you see yourself as “just an editor” or “just a camera operator”, this probably isn’t the role for you. We are looking for an all-round filmmaker who wants to become excellent at the entire production process.

• Filming professionally on location across the UK and occasionally Europe
• Setting up and operating cameras, lighting and sound
• Setting up, balancing and confidently operating camera gimbals
• Shooting interviews, B-roll, events and other live-action content
• Creating smooth, purposeful moving-camera shots
• Working as part of a small production crew
• Editing complete client films in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Turning interviews, B-roll and other material into engaging, well-structured films
• Making strong editorial decisions around story, pacing, music and shot selection
• Creating and adapting graphics, titles and animation in Adobe After Effects
• Colour correcting and grading footage
• Mixing and preparing audio for finished productions
• Managing revisions and implementing client feedback accurately
• Preparing, checking and delivering finished masters
• Organising, backing up and managing production media and edit projects
• Helping prepare equipment and productions before shoots
• Taking responsibility for projects and tasks through to completion
• Supporting colleagues when deadlines are tight
• Representing Pearldrop professionally when working with clients

You should already be highly proficient in both filming and editing.

We particularly want someone with strong practical ability in:

• Professional video editing and storytelling
• Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro, ideally
• Professional lighting
• Location sound recording
• B-roll and moving-camera cinematography
• Colour correction and grading
• Motion graphics
• Professional production and post-production…