Producer, MS Digital

• Compensation: USD 93,000 - USD 110,000 - yearly

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!,

SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now and Golf Pass.

MS NOW Digital is looking for a Video Producer/Editor. This producer/editor will conceive, write, produce, and edit fast, smart, and compelling video for social and digital platforms. This role will have a heavy focus on politics and the 2028 election cycle, while also contributing to the daily news cycle, primetime show content, original franchises, breaking news coverage, and major MS NOW initiatives.

The ideal candidate is an expert editor and strong writer with deep political instincts. You can identify the most compelling element of a candidate event, hearing, interview, breaking news development, or show segment and frame it into accurate, visually distinctive video that stands out in a crowded news environment.

PLEASE NOTE: position hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 2pm–10pm and Saturday 11am–7pm.

This position is represented by the Writers Guild of America East.

Responsibilities

• Conceive, write, produce, and edit vertical videos daily for social platforms.
• Produce original social and digital video with a strong emphasis on politics, elections, campaigns and the 2028 race.
• Partner with the DC political unit, campaign teams, reporters, field producers, editors, and show teams to strengthen story framing, scripts, headlines, and visual execution.
• Transform compelling linear segments, interviews, live moments, and reporting into high-performing digital video.
• React quickly to breaking news with accurate, distinctive, competitive videos that help lead the conversation.
• Distill complex political and policy stories into concise, engaging, and accessible storytelling for broad digital audiences.
• Generate daily and longer-term pitches for original video, social franchises, and 2028-focused formats.
• Edit longer-form video for You Tube, OTT, live streams, and other digital platforms as assigned.
• Write sharp scripts, headlines, captions, descriptions, and social copy.
• Work with anchors, contributors, and reporters on original videos and digital-first storytelling.
• Ensure all work meets MS NOW editorial, legal, Standards and Practices, and accuracy requirements.

• Minimum 5 years of digital, social, or video producing, editing, and writing experience.
• Deep knowledge of politics, campaigns, elections, and the issues shaping the 2028 cycle.
• Expert Adobe Premiere skills, with the ability to edit efficiently and creatively under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience producing and editing original digital video for social audiences.
• Strong scriptwriting, headline-writing, copy-editing, and storytelling skills.
• Excellent editorial judgment, including the ability to identify the most compelling and newsworthy elements of a story.
• Strong attention to accuracy, fairness, context, nuance, and detail.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and original projects in a fast-paced news environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently and take editorial direction.
• Familiarity with You Tube livestream technology and digital production workflows.
• Experience…