About Chateau
Chateau is a creator venture studio that partners with journalist-creators building independent media businesses. We lead with strategic advisory, embed operationally, and co-build new revenue lines alongside our clients. Our roster includes some of the most credentialed voices making the leap to digital independence.
We're looking for a freelance producer to help develop and execute a series of original live formats for Tara Palmeri — one of the most prominent independent political journalists working today, with a loyal, highly engaged audience across YouTube and Substack.
About the Role
This role supports Daniel Steiner, who is producing a slate of videos, including international field shoots. We're looking for a contract Associate Producer to coordinate and own the production end-to-end. This is the person who holds the full plan and makes sure each video gets researched, shot, edited, and delivered on schedule.
This role is the connective tissue across pre-production, production, and post. It's contracted on a per-video basis, and we expect the engagement to run through at least September 2026.
What You'll Be Doing
- Coordinate production end-to-end: in-country contacts and partner relationships, travel and shoot logistics for international field shoots, and delivery schedules
- Hold the full plan: know the slate, the shoot structure, and the on-the-ground points of contact cold, and keep everyone aligned to it
- Research: gather sources, and build research dossiers and outlines when relevant
- Pre-production coordination: travel booking, scheduling, locations and access
- Field coordination: keep shoots organized and on-track on the ground (occasional unusual hours may be required due to international filming)
- Post-production coordination: manage footage hand-off, track cuts, and keep each video on its delivery date
- Partner deliverable coordination: manage any partner timelines, approvals, and assets
- Asset and delivery management: footage, files, and own the delivery schedule
Who You Are
- 3+ years in documentary, video, or digital production – you can produce and coordinate end-to-end
- A strong logistics and coordination operator)
- Editorially curious about geography, history, urban systems, and journalism
- Reliable, and self-directed: you’re responsible without needing your hand held.
- Comfortable with the tools of remote production coordination (Notion, Frame, or similar)
Bonus points for: scriptwriting ability for documentary YouTube, field/location production experience and real familiarity with the YouTube documentary format.
