Associate Director, Post Production

Company And Culture

Complex is the definitive platform for global youth culture and music lifestyle, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge content, commerce and live experiences with unparalleled scale. Through innovative content, Complex tells stories of music, streetwear and style, sports, art and beyond. Its content engages in a dynamic conversation with the audience, reflecting and shaping the zeitgeist of convergence culture. A powerful media juggernaut paired with a curated marketplace, Complex is redefining the way fans interact with their favorite brands and artists and reshaping the future of digital culture and commerce.

• 6+ years of post-production experience within a digital-first media, entertainment, or culture-driven content environment.
• Proven leadership experience managing post-production teams, including full-time staff and freelance editors, across high-volume, multi-format outputs (originals, vertical, social, promo, branded).
• Advanced hands-on expertise in editing, color correction, and sound mixing, with the ability to elevate creative standards and troubleshoot elaborate post challenges.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling efficient post workflows, standards, and resourcing strategies in fast-paced production settings.
• Hands-on experience and comfortable implementing and adopting AI tools in the editing process.
• Experience serving as Post Supervisor on premium, original, or new-format projects from development through final delivery.
• Strong knowledge of emerging post-production technologies, including AI-assisted editing tools and digital-first best practices.
• Experience managing post-production budgets, vendor relationships, freelance onboarding, and third-party licensing libraries (photo, video, music).
• Deep understanding of media management systems, archival strategy, and collaboration with IT on hybrid storage (on-prem + cloud) solutions.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to balance creative excellence, speed, and budget discipline.

• Oversee post production across editorial video content for Complex, including originals, vertical video, promo, and potential branded and third party productions.
• Research and implement AI assisted editing workflows and technologies.
• Maintain and demonstrate proficiency in editing, color correction, and sound mixing techniques to advise and supervise post-production teams.
• Strategize on post production resourcing and staffing to ensure the best possible product is delivered while considering overall video priorities.
• Define post production workflows, standards and practices/processes, implement across all production groups including creative and production.
• Partner with production to stay up to date on current shoot schedules, as well as advise on post production needs for developing projects.
• Track post production costs including editor actuals, physical assets purchases, libraries, and subscriptions.
• Keep up with emerging post production technology and tools as well as digital first formats and best practices.
• Manage post operations team and full time editors.
• Develop creative producers to nurture understanding of post production processes.
• Maintain and manage relationships with third party party libraries, including photo, video, music.

• Oversee the intake of all media following shoots to guarantee adherence to post-production timelines.
• Tracking all archival material and overseeing best practices for organization and retrieval of archived assets.
• Collaborating with IT and business development to devise strategies for extracting and monetizing archival assets.
• Collaborate with IT to oversee the balance between on-site server capacity and cloud storage solutions.

• Source and hire editors for each project.
  
  Supervise the onboarding freelancers and facilitate payments.
• Oversee the creation and management of post production schedules per video product.
• Act as post supervisor on Complex originals and new to world projects.
• Maintain a robust roster of post production freelancers and vendors, including but not limited to editors, assistant editors, motion graphics designers, post mixers and sound designers, online/color editors, music supervisors.
• Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance
• Healthcare FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Commuter Benefits FSA
• Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
• Paid Parental leave
• 401k with 4% match
• Pet Insurance
• Legal and…