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Bathing Brands is growing a portfolio of leading sauna, steam, and wellness brands, including SaunaLife, FINSAUNA, Prosaunas, Finnmark Designs, World Sauna Group, and Bathing Brands.

We are looking for a filming-first Video Producer & Videographer who can turn complex product builds, demonstrations, and lifestyle concepts into clear, visually compelling footage.

This role is primarily focused on filming and production. While editing knowledge is required, the successful candidate will spend most of their time planning shoots, capturing footage, directing talent, and producing content in the field rather than sitting behind a computer editing video.

This is not a desk-bound editing role. You will work behind the camera, direct talent, collaborate with builders and product experts, and solve production challenges in real time. You will lead filming while partnering with an experienced internal editor who will own most post-production and final delivery.

Strong editing knowledge is essential, but your primary responsibility will be filming, directing talent, and delivering complete, organized, edit-ready footage.

You'll spend time in active construction environments, showrooms, production spaces, and lifestyle settings, capturing content that helps customers understand and experience our products.

Please Note Important Requirements:

A portfolio or demo reel is required and must be submitted with your application.
You must be able to report to our Wheeling, IL office on a weekly basis, hybrid schedule available.

What You’ll Do

Lead Video Production

Film monthly SaunaLife and FINSAUNA sauna builds from initial construction through the finished product
Capture critical installation steps, product details, transitions, supporting B-roll, and final reveal footage
Film product demonstrations, walk-arounds, interviews, lifestyle scenes, and other brand content
Make confident, creative, and technical decisions when schedules, build sequences, and filming conditions change
Maintain visual continuity across stops, starts, corrections, and occasional rebuilds
Deliver technically strong, visually consistent footage that supports an efficient editing process

Direct Talent and Bring Concepts to Life

Direct professional talent, employees, customers, influencers, and other on-camera participants
Help nonprofessional talent feel comfortable, natural, and credible on camera
Translate storyboards, shot lists, and creative concepts into engaging visual content
Provide direction on movement, delivery, product interaction, and positioning
Collaborate with the creative team to develop relatable lifestyle scenes in controlled and real-world environments

Plan and Manage Shoots

Partner with marketing, creative, project management, builders, and product experts to prepare for production
Develop practical shot lists and filming plans based on the product and intended deliverables
Anticipate critical construction and installation milestones to ensure important footage is never missed.
Organize, label, back up, and transfer footage for the internal editor
Maintain video, lighting, and audio equipment
Help establish repeatable filming standards and more efficient production workflows
Contribute to future recommendations for studio, equipment, and production needs

Support an Integrated Production Team

Work closely with the internal editor to ensure strong coverage, continuity, and supporting footage
Capture each project with pacing, transitions, and final assembly in mind
Complete selects, rough assemblies, simple edits, or quick social cutdowns when needed
Coordinate with the company photographer to maximize shared production days and produce complementary photo and video assets

What You Bring

4–6 years of professional video production experience
A strong portfolio featuring commercial, product, lifestyle, process-driven, or branded content
Advanced camera operation, composition, lighting, and audio-capture skills
Experience directing talent, including people who are not professional performers
The ability to document complex, step-by-step processes clearly
Strong working knowledge of editing and post-production workflows
Experience organizing and handing off footage to another editor
The confidence to work independently and solve production challenges onsite
Strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills
Availability to work primarily onsite in Wheeling, Illinois, with occasional offsite production and travel (5 – 10%)

Experience That Would Set You Apart

Agency, commercial-production, or in-house consumer-brand experience
Experience filming construction, installation, manufacturing, home improvement, or other process-heavy content
Background in lifestyle, wellness, fitness, home, or premium consumer products
Familiarity with vertical video, Reels, Shorts, and other social-first formats
Experience with motion graphics, color correction, audio cleanup, and captioning
Experience working within a shared model where filming and editing are owned by different team members

What Success Looks Like

In your first six months, you will help us:

Establish a reliable monthly filming workflow for sauna build content
Improve the completeness, consistency, and visual quality of footage
Increase our ability to create lifestyle and talent-led brand content
Build a more controlled and repeatable internal production system
Expand video output across product education, reseller training, websites, social media, and brand campaigns

About Bathing Brands

Bathing Brands is a portfolio of companies and consumer brands serving the growing sauna, steam, and wellness market across North America. Our work spans product distribution, dealer and e-tailer support, consumer education, and the development of proprietary brands designed to help more people experience the benefits of sauna and thermal wellness.

To apply, please submit your résumé and a portfolio or reel that demonstrates your filming, visual storytelling, and talent-direction capabilities.

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