Short Form Video Producer.

Alpha Drop Ventures is building the standard layer for cultural commerce. At the center is DROPZ, our core platform. Around it sit the brands we build and own, like Cipher Noir, which set the bar for what credible culture-led product looks like. One ecosystem, one standard, many surfaces. We are pre-launch, raising, and moving fast with people who could be doing easier things somewhere else and chose this instead. We need someone who can shoot it and cut it.

The Role

You own the moving image across the ecosystem. From the moment the camera rolls to the final export, the full pipeline is yours. Every frame either makes the brand feel inevitable or makes it feel like everyone else. There is no filler content here.

• Shoot high-quality short-form footage across drops, products, creator collaborations, behind the scenes, and events, delivering clips that feel cinematic and cut cleanly on mobile

• Edit raw footage into retention-first short-form videos with strong hooks, sharp pacing, and platform-native structure, ready to publish across Reels and Shorts

• Translate briefs into shot lists and coverage plans with clear intent, so every shoot has the right angles, hooks, and selects for a fast edit

• Own lighting across indoor and outdoor setups, maintaining consistent tone, true-to-life product colour, and a visual mood that holds across every drop

• Build hook-first openers, test multiple patterns, and select the strongest options based on creative intent and watch behaviour

• Add platform-native finishing layers including captions, kinetic text, sound design, and music selection, keeping edits sharp and premium without overproducing them

• Build repeatable systems on both ends, shot workflows, file naming, backups, caption presets, and edit templates, so the pipeline runs fast without losing craft

• Stay close to platform trends and translate what is worth using into content that feels original to the brand, not borrowed from someone else

What This Actually Is

This is a founding team role. That means more than a title.

• You own both ends of the pipeline. There is no handoff between a shooter and an editor. The accountability for what ships is entirely yours

• Your work goes live in front of collectors, issuers, and partners while the brand is still being defined. What you shoot and cut shapes how people first understand what we are building

• Feedback is direct and unfiltered. You hear clearly when something is off and when it lands, and you are expected to handle both calmly

• You will help define the visual language of the brand before there is a playbook for it. That is the rare part of this role and the demanding part

If you want fixed lanes and a manager who checks in twice a week, this is the wrong room, and that is fine.

How We Build And What Sets You Apart

We are here to build something, not make noise around something. We hold a high bar and we hold it together. The role gets you hired. This is what makes you matter here.

• You see the shot before anyone calls it and catch the weak edit before anyone flags it

• You understand retention as a craft. You redesign structure to hold attention using story flow and visual sequencing, not effects to save a weak cut

• You build things that outlast the task. Shot systems, edit templates, and visual standards, not just individual pieces of content

• You track culture and platform behaviour closely enough to know what is worth riding and what dilutes the brand

• No passive feedback, no dropped context, no low effort with an excuse attached

• When a deadline is at risk, you raise it early. When a piece is not ready, you do not ship it and hope no one notices

• You explain your creative choices, take feedback seriously, and stay genuinely open to better ideas from the team

• You protect the visual standard across every surface, because one weak video in one corner of the ecosystem weakens how the whole brand is perceived

• Going above and beyond is not about hours. It is about caring more precisely than the task requires, and shooting and cutting like every frame is part of how people decide to trust what we build

Who You Are

• Minimum 12 months of hands-on experience shooting and editing short-form content, with a portfolio that shows both sides, framing and movement on the shoot side, hooks and pacing on the edit side

• Strong on-set fundamentals including lighting, gimbal and handheld movement, audio monitoring, and gear management

• Fluent in short-form editing with a clear understanding of retention, hook structure, pacing, captions, sound design, and platform-native finishing

• Proficient in editing tools such as CapCut, Premiere Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, and comfortable building reusable systems within them

• Comfortable owning the full pipeline from shoot to export without needing the work split across two people

• Comfortable with ambiguity, fast turnarounds, and decisions made on incomplete information, then refining from feedback and results

• Genuinely curious about culture, aesthetics, and how people respond to moving image, not just someone who shoots and cuts on request. You want to shape how the brand looks and feels over time

Build with us. Do not perform for us.