Editor Shooter- Beach Happy Company
Orange Beach, AL - USA
Job Summary
Beach Happy is seeking a fast creative and highly self-directed Shooter/Editor to help drive the day-to-day production of social-first content across Beach Happy locations road tours events activations partnerships and brand experiences.
The Shooter/Editor is more than the person behind the camera. This position must be able to recognize a great moment without waiting for someone to point it out capture it in a real-world environment make strong editorial decisions and turn raw footage into finished content quickly.
Beach Happy content is energetic authentic and intentionally less polished than traditional commercial production. The ideal candidate understands that speed and instinct matter. They can work independently in the field collaborate naturally with on-camera personalities and maintain the organization and production discipline necessary to keep a high-volume content operation moving.
Essential Responsibilities
- Field Production & Content Capture: Shoot social-first content using mobile and mirrorless cameras across beaches businesses venues events road trips interviews activations and other Beach Happy experiences. Capture strong visuals and clean usable audio in busy and uncontrolled environments.
- Editing & Same-Day Content: Edit short-form vertical content for TikTok Instagram Reels YouTube Shorts Facebook and other digital platforms using CapCut Adobe Premiere or comparable software. Work efficiently within a fast-turn production environment where content may need to move from capture to finished piece the same day.
- Editorial Instinct & Storytelling: Independently recognize the strongest funniest most interesting or most human moments from a shoot rather than relying entirely on assigned selects or step-by-step direction. Understand when an unexpected moment is more valuable than the originally planned shot.
- Visual Identity & Content Standards: Help maintain a recognizable Beach Happy visual style across content while preserving the authentic personality-driven intentionally unpolished feel of the brand. Understand when content is finished and ready to ship without overproducing it.
- Road & Field Production: Support Beach Happy road production throughout the Gulf Coast and on periodic multi-day shoots. Work efficiently in changing locations and outdoor environments while managing cameras audio equipment batteries media file transfers and other production needs in the field.
- Events Activations & Partnerships: Capture Beach Happy events partner experiences destination features live activations and other company initiatives. Anticipate important moments and ensure the team leaves each production with enough quality material to support immediate and future content.
- Content Library & Clip Development: Organize label archive and maintain footage and production assets so content can be easily located and reused. Revisit existing footage to identify additional clips moments and stories that can extend the value of each shoot and maintain a healthy pipeline of publishable content.
- Publishing & Distribution Support: Prepare platform-specific versions of finished content and support uploading publishing and distribution as needed. Understand the differences between platforms and adjust framing length pacing captions and other elements accordingly.
- Host & Team Collaboration: Work closely with Road Hosts and the Executive Producer to execute the production slate. Help Hosts improve framing audio self-shooting and content capture while remaining flexible enough to cover missing angles or production needs as they arise.
- Production Equipment & Organization: Maintain cameras audio equipment production gear storage and organized file-transfer workflows. Ensure footage is properly transferred and labeled so production does not slow down because of missing files disorganized assets or equipment issues.
- On-Camera Flexibility: Be willing to occasionally step in front of the camera when a moment or format benefits from it. Beach Happy operates as a lean production team and every content team member should be comfortable contributing beyond a narrowly defined production lane.
Qualifications
- 2 years of professional or demonstrated experience shooting and editing short-form social-first content.
- Must be able to independently shoot AND edit. Both capabilities are required for this position.
- Strong proficiency with CapCut Adobe Premiere or comparable fast-turn editing software.
- Experience independently operating mobile and mirrorless cameras and capturing quality audio in field environments.
- Strong editorial instincts with the ability to recognize compelling moments and make creative decisions without constant direction.
- Working knowledge of TikTok Instagram Reels YouTube Shorts Facebook and platform-native content requirements.
- Ability to work quickly without overproducing content or allowing perfection to interfere with publishing speed.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage large volumes of footage files archives and production assets.
- Comfortable working outdoors carrying production equipment traveling and working in active event and hospitality environments.
- Must be available for periodic travel evenings weekends events and multi-day production schedules.
- Must live on the Gulf Coast or be willing to relocate.
- Valid drivers license required.
- Experience with creator content podcasts sports hospitality tourism live events documentary-style field production or still photography is preferred.
Speed editorial instinct and self-direction are essential. The Shooter/Editor must be able to capture the content recognize the story and turn it into a finished piece without waiting for step-by-step direction.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
The most famous beach bar in the country. The Flora-Bama Lounge, is located famously in Orange Beach, Alabama and Perdido Key, Florida. It has long been a landmark of the Gulf Shores community and provides live entertainment 365 days a year. Also the home of the Bushwacker, with live ... View more