Founding Creative & Videographer

San Franciscofull time

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$100k–$120k

H1B: no

Aurelius Systems Founding Creative & Videographer at Aurelius Systems responsible for visual storytelling and content creation across platforms. Own end-to-end video production showcasing defense tech and company culture.

Responsibilities

You own the way Aurelius is seen. The visual system, the narrative, the shots, the cuts, the stories we tell about what we’re building and the people building it. Factory floor in Detroit. Field tests on the range. Founders working late in SF. Lasers hitting drones at full power. All of it, through your lens.
We want someone who looks at the hardest stuff happening at the company and figures out how to make it feel as real and as important as it actually is. You’re not just capturing content, you’re building the way the world comes to understand directed energy and the team doing it in America. That’s a big seat for the right person who wants that kind of ownership.
You’ll travel with the team. You’ll be in the room for things most creatives never get to see. You’ll ship fast, you’ll shoot more than we can post, and you’ll have real ownership on what makes it out the door.
Visual and narrative system for Aurelius across YouTube, X, and launch content
Shoot, edit, and ship end to end. Camera to final cut
Factory and shop floor documentation in Detroit and SF
Field test coverage on the 400-acre range. Lasers hitting drones. Real footage, not stock
Founder and ghost writing short, punchy, high-cadence
Long-form product and launch films that set the standard for how defense tech gets shown
The branding and company look. You make the hard engineering actually look as cool as it is

Qualification

Shipped real YouTubePortfolio that proves itNative English speakerWhere You Probably Come FromWe Want to Talk IfNot a Fit IfBias for actionTravel without complaint

Required

Shipped real YouTube. Channel, series, or long-form product or factory films you owned end to end
Portfolio that proves it. Reel plus links. No resumes
Gone viral or broken through on X or YouTube with hardware, industrial, auto, aerospace, or defense-adjacent work
Set the look for something and then gotten behind the camera and cut it yourself
Talked shop with at least one founder shipping real product, not just decks
Native English speaker
Where You Probably Come From: Hardware or industrial YouTube channels you ran yourself. Auto, aerospace, or defense creative shops where you did more than one job. Studios where you were the whole stack from brief to delivery. Founder-adjacent creative seats where the content shipped fast and performed.
We Want to Talk If: You’ve built an audience from scratch on hard-to-film subjects. You’ve made industrial look beautiful. You’ve shot in environments most creatives would never go. You want the ownership and the range of a founding seat.
Not a Fit If: You direct and don’t shoot. You need an agency wrapper around you to work. Your reel is all polish and no substance.
Bias for action. You shoot before you storyboard
Travel without complaint. Detroit, SF, range sites, demos
Comfortable embedded with engineers for hours getting one shot right