Cinematographer​/Editor

We’re a cannabis company that doesn’t really act like a cannabis company.

We operate more like a CPG brand house that happens to make cannabis products.

One of our brands is Gummy Demarco. Google him. He's a fun brand to work on.

Think less traditional weed marketing. More Liquid Death, Oatly, Old Spice, Dr. Squatch, Scrub Daddy and brands that understand personality is just as important as the product.

Our brands have voices. Characters. Opinions. Questionable levels of confidence.

Some are polished.

Some are ridiculous.

Some probably need supervision.

That’s where you come in.

We’re looking for a Cinematographer / Editor who can make things look expensive, weird, funny, beautiful, disgusting, cinematic, or occasionally all six at once.

This is not a job where someone hands you a storyboard, tells you exactly where to put the camera and stands behind you asking if you got the shot.

We need someone who can make the shot from an idea. Or come up with a better one.

You’ll work with a slightly unhinged group of creatives constantly making social content, product launches, ads, experiments, interviews, stupid little internet things and occasionally something that probably should have required a permit.

You’ll spend roughly two days a week shooting in our lab/studio in Hazel Park
, turning products, people, processes, experiments and random creative ideas into content people want to watch.

The rest of the time you’ll be shooting, editing, experimenting, concepting and collaborating.

We take road trips.

Some days you’ll shoot beautiful macro product footage.

Some days someone will walk over and ask:

“Can we make this look like a 1987 pharmaceutical commercial?”

Your answer should ideally be:

Then you figure it out.

• Shooting and editing social-first content
• Reels, Tik Toks, ads, launches and brand films
• Cinematic product video and photography
• Macro/product beauty shots
• Lighting products, people and environments
• Camera, gimbal, drone and audio operation
• Editing, color, sound design and finishing
• Creating interesting transitions and camera moves
• Turning rough ideas into finished work
• Making content quickly without turning everything into a three-week production
• Collaborating with designers, writers and creative director
• Building repeatable shooting setups in our lab
• Organizing footage and taking care of the gear
• Occasionally grabbing a camera because something ridiculous is happening and nobody planned for it

You need creative instincts. We don’t just want someone who knows Premiere shortcuts and which end of the camera points at the subject.

We want someone who sees a product sitting on a table and immediately thinks:

What if we shot through glass?

What if the camera was underneath it?

What if we blasted it with red light?

What happens at 120fps?

What if we made this look like a Tarantino movie for absolutely no reason?

That curiosity matters more to us than ten years of making perfectly acceptable corporate videos.

• Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve extremely well. (Capcut is also a good new tool to have)
• BONUS:
  After Effects enough to be dangerous.
• Camera operation, composition, exposure and lenses.
• Studio and practical lighting.
• Color grading and audio.
• Gimbals and handheld shooting.
• Social-first editing and pacing.
• How to make something look great without needing 14 people standing around a monitor.
• And increasingly, how to use AI and emerging creative tools without making everything look like AI made it.

• Creative
• Fast
• Curious
• Self-directed
• Collaborative
• Resourceful
• Comfortable occasionally failing
• And comfortable hearing:
• “This might be a terrible idea, but…”

• You need every shot handed to you.
• You require a 14-page…