Location & Contract
Location: Minimum 3 days in Leamington Spa office
Contract: Fixed term - production period (start date Early September)
About Common Story
Common Story is an award-winning storytelling company based in the West Midlands, creating bold, human-centred content for children. Building on our track record with I CAN for CBeebies, we are launching a dedicated Preschool YouTube channel. We are looking for a Digital Producer to build and run that content operation from the ground up.
The Role
This is a format and production role, not a social media role. The Digital Producer designs repeatable content formats, captures digital-first material, leads green screen shoot days, manages the publishing pipeline and reads performance data to improve output. It will suit someone who thinks in formats rather than one-off ideas, is comfortable working at pace within a live production environment and is genuinely excited by building something new from the ground up for a young audience.
Responsibilities
- Format Development • Devise repeatable content formats grounded in how preschool audiences watch; think in formats not individual videos
- Understand key formats that work on YouTube kids for preschool audiences
- Be able to produce strong and engaging thumbnails that will attract our preschool audience.
- understand what titles will grab preschoolers and work well with the YT algorithms
- On-Set Content Capture • Be able to film and capture digital-first content including sound
- Be able to edit content into useable films.
- Puppet-Led Content & Green Screen • Use puppets as the primary content device; brief puppeteers and lead green screen shoot days
- Treat every shoot day as a production multiplier: one day should feed multiple weeks of uploads
- Identify how the 130-episode archive can be reworked into new character-led formats at low cost
- Content Pipeline & Publishing • Manage the edit pipeline; deliver long-form originals, Shorts and archive packages to the weekly schedule
- Maintain the cadence: one long-form and two Shorts per week; build the launch library before the channel opens
- Write titles and metadata; apply packaging standards consistently; ensure YouTube Kids safe-by-design compliance
- Performance & Iteration • Read data weekly: retention, completion, click-through, rewatch; bring recommendations monthly and quarterly
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Strong understanding of YouTube preschool content - retention, repetition, format recognition
- Digital-first video production experience; think in formats, manage high-volume pipelines
- Capture – be able to film and record sound to hight standard and then edit content in software programme up to publishing.
- Experience working within or alongside live production; comfortable at pace with autonomy
- YouTube publishing, metadata, thumbnails, channel management; able to read and act on data
Desirable
- Children's content experience; puppet or character-led production; green screen
- YouTube Kids / Made for Kids requirements; safeguarding awareness in child-involving production
Inclusion Applications close Monday 10th August at 12pm. Common Story is an inclusive employer and actively welcomes applications from under-represented groups including Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent people, those from ethnically diverse communities and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Contact us for access or adjustment support.
