Video Producer

Job description

**Role Overview** This is a shared producer role across Autocar Hindi and Autocar Professional. The producer is the operational backbone of both video operations, owning production schedules, ensuring videos delivery on deadline, and bringing creative thinking to the table on formats, treatments and storytelling. The role demands someone who can plan calmly, run a shoot decisively, and push the team to keep raising the bar. **Reporting & Team** - Reports to: Editor, Media Strategy, Autocar India/ Autocar Pro - Works with: On-camera presenters and reviewers across both brands, social media video creator, editorial teams, post-production, OEM PR and event teams **Experience & Location** - 38 years of experience in video production, ideally in auto, news, lifestyle or business video - Based in Gurgaon, with travel for shoots, drives and events - Work from office Key Responsibilities - **Production planning:** Build and maintain content calendars for Autocar Hindi and Autocar Pro; schedule shoots, edits, reviews and publishing dates across both brands - **Delivery:** Make sure videos go live on time and on brief: every launch, every drive, every news peg - **Shoot management:** Run shoots end to end - pre-production briefs, crew and gear, location, on-ground execution, time-on-set discipline - **Creative input:** Pitch and shape formats, treatments, story structures and visual approaches - **Post-production:** Brief and supervise editors, motion graphics and sound; review cuts and sign off before publish - **New ideas:** Bring new formats, series and treatments to the table Must-Have Skills - Strong production planning and scheduling, able to run multiple parallel deliverables without slippage - Hands-on shoot experience pre-pro, on-set, and post - Sharp creative judgement story, structure, hook, pacing, visual treatment - Editorial sensibility, understands the difference between a feature, a news video, a review and a social cut, and produces each accordingly - Comfort working across two distinct brand voices in parallel - Strong communication and team leadership; able to brief, push and protect the team Good-to-Have - Auto industry exposure, familiarity with OEM launch cycles, drive event formats, and motor show production - Working knowledge of YouTube and Instagram performance metrics, and willingness to use them to inform decisions - Editing skills (Premiere Pro / DaVinci Resolve) at a supervisory level - Bilingual (Hindi + English) understanding to quality check scripts, graphics and cuts What You'll Get - A senior production role with a strong brands - Authority to shape video output - Editorial backing of Autocar India and Autocar Pro - A role with both planning depth and creative latitude