Job description
Did you grow up always dreaming of making amazing films to tell a story and move audiences? But then you joined the real world and found yourself making wedding videos and dull corporate reels just to pay your bills?
Well now is your opportunity to live your dream.
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We are Laminar Projects!
We are a developer of construction software and a high-end construction project management consultancy. Improving construction strengthens the very foundation of human civilisation. (Watch our short film about it)
As a consultancy, we are focused on genuinely upgrading the way construction projects are delivered. We bring control and clarity to projects using a pragmatic mix of the latest technology, our own processes, and a big dose of common sense.
We then take the deep understanding of the projects we work on to develop construction management software products that anyone can use to deliver their projects better. Our tech team are building a full suite of products one module at a time – kind of like office 365 but for construction management (Check out Shape, our construction management tech and watch this video about what we are doing)
The core of all this is our true secret sauce; people. We only recruit the very best both in capability and personality. We are deeply focused on designing a new type of organisation that is optimised for the flourishing of the people in the team first and foremost. People that join us develop fast as a whole person in ways they never imagined. (Read more about our vision and mission)
This approach has allowed us to grow from just 2 people in 2017 to over 110 today and we are still very much at the beginning! Joining us isn’t just some “job”, it is a transformative educational experience. We challenge you to be your best self in all aspects of life.
Any role that you start with at Laminar should be seen only as a starting point. Our fast growth means that there are many diverse and interesting challenges available and it is up to you to guide yourself into whichever areas you are most interested in – we will enable it.
(Get to know us better by watching a few of our videos)
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4 core values for a good life
We believe a life of human flourishing is all about meaningful relationships with others and challenging yourself to create a positive impact. So our values reflect the 4 levels of relationships that each of us has:
Grow yourself – Your relationship with yourself
Care about people – Your relationship with others around you
Execute to greatness – Your relationship with your team
Build civilisation – Your relationship with humanity and the world
This goes much deeper but for the sake of brevity, we will keep the summary version!
We enshrined our values in our vision:
We exist so that everyone in our team can thrive in a high-impact community that:
Connects us with meaningful relationships.
Inspires us to develop ourselves to become better humans.
Empowers us to pursue our own learning adventures.
We believe that, by first doing this, we can achieve the highest levels of value for the world.
And enable the achievement of our vision through our dual missions:
To fully digitise the construction of human civilisation.
To create a new type of organisation that enables human flourishing while delivering a huge positive impact on society.
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The Role
Purpose of the role
You will be bringing our stories to life, producing and editing a wide range of video content while ensuring all ideas are explored and made possible, always focused on smooth execution and stellar results.
Team
Our Growth team is made up of our sales, marketing & video teams. Together, we tell the Laminar story to the world and make sure we are in the best possible position to continue developing long-lasting relationships with new and existing customers.
Your top 3 objectives
Take our film production standards to the next level, by editing inspiring, creative stories, and allowing us to produce more and better videos
Oversee the production and editing of technical videos/series, bridging the specialists/participants and the video team and optimizing the creation of specialized content by team members
Ensure a smooth, uncomplicated production process for each project, from pre-production to final delivery, ensuring the conditions are gathered for ideas to come to life
Your top 5 responsibilities
As our Video Producer & Editor, you will:
Editing inspiring video pieces: From documentary pieces or recruitment videos to informational content, you will help find the most interesting stories within Laminar and bring the footage together creatively to better tell those stories, supporting the film director’s vision and bringing in your own personal touch and ideas, delivering videos that will takes on the next level of the mission to change the industry
Organizing & scheduling: From planning a film shoot and its logistics, to scheduling the recording and editing of technical videos, as well as organizing multiple filming sessions to maximize time and resources, you will guarantee an organized and optimal filming calendar
Establish a communication bridge: Pursuing answers and chasing after the relevant people to ensure the completion of a video, from the film director's vision to the specialist's requirements, from the team member’s requests for a given video or the CEO’s intent, ensuring the video team knows in detail what they ought to be doing and the remaining team is aware of what is going on, while ensuring the videos you edit are according to the intent and the technical content is correct
Financial management: Put together film budgets, while making sure the production process is done in the most efficient, cost-saving way
Protecting the idea: Have a clear understanding of the principle and objective behind any video, the director’s vision and the requirements of the project, fighting for the idea and protecting it through the various stages it goes through, supporting the video team’s efforts to make it come to life as originally intended, whilst finding solutions and suggesting them to the team, actively seeking out for smooth and creative production process
Your Capabilities
Creative and able to tell stories enhanced by up-to-date editing techniques, you have great domain of editing software and great visual taste, translatable in aesthetically curated, eye-catching visuals and strong, concise storytelling though video. You are also very organized, methodical, relentless (you are not afraid to chase after the relevant people to ensure the completion of a video), with great communication skills (ability to express thoughts and ideas in a clear, articulate manner, whilst listening to others and understand their wishes and concerns), not afraid to talk and handle money, and highly efficient at predicting problems and coming up with solutions.
Must-have (The fundamentals)
Mastery: Film/Video Production background, be it in independent circuits, advertising or film (possibly but not preferably TV station experience), or small to medium-sized organisations with video content output. A track record of managing video production and making projects come to life.Communication: Precise and structured communicator both written and verbal in English
Leadership: Able to work well with stakeholders of all levels and organise teams to achieve a common goal
Impact: A track record of editing dynamic, inspiring and visually stellar videos, and of making video production smooth and highly efficient
Nice to have (If you don’t have it now you will after joining)
Mastery: An understanding of project management and construction, diving deep to understand content subject matter and seeking out the truthCommunication: Able to influence others to get them on board with your ideas and ways of doing things
Leadership: A leader, coach and mentor of video teams
Impact:A proven track record of creating videos that have real business impact
Laminar isn’t the place for you if any of the following is true:
You want an easy, chilled-out role without much challenge
You like to be the smartest person in the room
You don’t like continuously receiving honest candid feedback
You prefer to do your own thing rather than work with a team
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can you tell me more about what the role is like?
You will work with a wide range of members across our entire team to tell powerful stories about our business and what we do. From putting together inspiring and dynamic videos, or guaranteeing the completion of a technical video series, to ensuring that all the requirements for any video project are assured or bridging the information between the film & marketing team and the remaining team/specialists, you will be overseeing multiple projects, ensuring they are made up to specifications.
Where would I be working?
Our marketing and video roles are mostly remote and home-based with occasional travel requirements for shoots and meetings. If you are close to one of our locations with an office then you can come as often as you like.
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Salary and Benefits
Standard Stuff
Paid Annual Leave 25 days + statutory Bank Holidays
Flexible hours
Compensation for this role depends on the level and will likely fall in the £41,000 - £77,500 annual range. We provide a competitive mix of salary, bonuses and equity.
Generous equity bonus, based on your performance
You will be supported to excel in whichever areas you are most interested in! With Laminar, development is unbounded.
The Life-Changing Stuff
Grow your whole self: Our leaders are more like coaches and one of our main objectives is to give 5 years’ worth of learning and development for every 1 year with us. You have a coach, mentor, well-being therapist and a development-orientated environment: That’s literally what our vision is all about and the primary reason Laminar exists.
Be surrounded by the best: We only hire and retain the very best people. You might be used to being the smartest in the room but that won’t be the case in Laminar. You will be surrounded by people you can learn from. We are 100% meritocratic so fast progression is the norm. You will be supported to excel in whichever areas you are most interested in! With Laminar, development is unbounded.
Long-term impact: We are focused on solving the biggest issues in construction project delivery in a way that can spread and outlast us.
A generous equity scheme: as a fast-growing consultancy as well as the fact we are building software this has a huge upside, particularly for people that stay with us through our growth.
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Applying properly!!! Important!!!
We get thousands of applications so please write us a letter as part of your application explaining:
Why do you want to join us?
What do you think you bring to the team?
We aren't a giant faceless corporation; we really care about the people who want to join our team so all letters will be read thoroughly.
After that, we will reach out to you to schedule a casual conversation to help you to know us a bit better and tell us a bit about yourself.
After that, we will schedule a couple of technical and personal assessments to understand what your level of capability is based on our own development matrix. This is to ensure that when you join you are starting at the right level of responsibility based on your capability not just based on experience.
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