Cinematographer

The role

A Senior Cinematographer will capture high-quality footage for social and brand video, product launches, and customer stories. You will translate shot plans into practical camera and lighting approaches for real-world production and field capture.

What you will do

• Capture high-quality footage for social and brand video, product launches, and interviews
• Collaborate with Video Producer on shot lists, location scouts, and production schedules
• Select and operate cameras, lenses, filtration, support, monitoring, and movement tools
• Design and execute lighting and grip setups for various environments
• Make choices about composition, framing, lensing, movement, focus, exposure, and frame rate
• Operate as a solo shooter, within a small crew, or as part of a larger team
• Capture documentary and observational footage in changing conditions
• Coordinate clean production-sound capture with audio crew
• Prepare, test, organize, maintain, and track camera and lighting equipment
• Maintain on-set media integrity through consistent settings and metadata practices

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional cinematography or camera-department experience
• A strong reel and portfolio demonstrating visual storytelling and camera and lighting craft
• Deep proficiency with professional cinema camera systems such as ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon, or Blackmagic
• Strong knowledge of lenses, filtration, exposure, monitoring, color science, LUTs, codecs, frame rates, timecode, camera movement, and production workflows
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing lighting and grip setups in studios and on location
• Experience working as a solo operator, with a small crew, and within larger camera and lighting departments
• Strong documentary instincts and the ability to anticipate action
• Experience capturing interviews, products or hardware, demonstrations, events, and observational footage
• Strong equipment, media, metadata, and handoff discipline
• Clear communication with producers, editors, engineers, operators, customers, executives, and production crews
• Sound judgment around location conditions, access, safety requirements, and schedules
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 30% for productions

Nice to have

• Experience capturing robotics, autonomy, aviation, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, or infrastructure
• Experience with high-speed capture, long-lens tracking, stabilized remote cameras, gimbals, motion control, time-lapse, aerial cinematography, or FAA Part 107 operations
• Working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, on-set color workflows, still photography, or location audio

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Overtime pay
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods.