tastylive is hiring: Video Content Producer in Chicago

Overview

Company Name: IG North America (tastytrade, tasty live, tastyfx, tastycrypto) Role: Video Content Producer Location: Chicago, Illinois – 3 days per week in office

As our Video Content Producer, you’ll own the editing, production, optimization, and execution of video content across social channels.

Reporting to the Director of Content, you’ll work closely with our social and content teams to bring creative concepts to life, ensuring every video produced aligns with strategy and drives audience growth, engagement, and retention.

In this role, you’ll drive the creation, production, and optimization of engaging video content across platforms.

This hands-on role blends execution and collaboration, giving you the opportunity to shape stories from idea to final cut while building a strong, engaging presence for all four of IG North America’s brands: tastytrade, tasty live, tastyfx, and tastycrypto.

You’ll combine technical ability, strategic thinking, and a strong understanding of audience behavior to craft high-quality, performance-driven video content in the finance space.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with internal teams to ideate and develop video concepts for both short-form (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) and long-form content (webinars, explainers, thought leadership) and translate them into video assets


• Edit and produce videos from raw footage to final cut, applying non-linear editing techniques, sound design, and scriptwriting skills to ensure high production quality


• Optimize video content to maximize engagement, click-through rates, and reach across platforms via search engine optimization (SEO) best practices, include optimized video titles, descriptions, thumbnails, and formats


• Translate complex trading and financial topics into clear, engaging, and accessible video and graphic content


• Work with our data team to analyze video performance to optimize content to increase top line KPIs, identify audience trends, and inform content strategy


• Take ownership of the video production process while ensuring all content aligns with brand standards and platform best practices


• Ensure quality control of content to ensure accessibility, clarity, and brand tone standards


• Contribute to social media ideation and creative brainstorming sessions, bringing both execution-focused and strategic insights to the table


• Stay up to date with video trends, editing techniques, and platform updates to continuously improve content quality and performance


• Work with the creative team to design video, animation, and creative standards following brand guidelines

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, film, media production, communications, business, or graphic design preferred


• 5+ years of experience creating and editing video content


• Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator) and other social video editing tools (CapCut, etc.)


• Bonus points if you have experience editing or producing podcast episodes OR animations/graphics for videos or infographics


• Strong grasp of content psychology and audience behavior, with the ability to translate complex financial topics into engaging, accessible videos


• Experienced in non-linear editing, sound design, scriptwriting, and social media ideation


• Ability to analyze video content metrics to guide strategy and optimize for future content


• Strong understanding of video formats, aspect ratios, and platform best practices for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other social channels


• Portfolio demonstrating successful content creation, storytelling skills and experience optimizing content for various content channels


• Experience collaborating with production teams, writers, and on-camera talent to bring concepts to life


• Strategic thinker with a creative mindset, proactive problem-solving skills, and the ability to contribute to both execution and ideation


• Strong editorial and writing skills with proven experience managing content calendars, production workflows, and editorial packaging


• Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and maintain consistent quality across content


• Prior experience in fintech, financial services, or a highly regulated industry—or strong willingness to learn quickly


• Familiarity with options trading, equity markets, and investment products—or the drive to gain expertise rapidly


• Detail-oriented approach to compliance and brand consistency while maintaining creative flexibility


• Passion for visual storytelling and a proactive, self-starter mentality in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Performance Bonuses


• Stock Purchase Options


• 401k Plan


• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)


• 10 Paid Sick Days


• Pet Insurance


• Wellness & Mental Health Programs


• Charitable Donation Matching


• Daily catered lunch when in the office


• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages


• Shuttle to/from Metra

Salary

Salary Range: $85,000 - $100,000

This is an estimated range.

The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications.

About Us

The tastyhouse of brands empowers individual traders differently.

tasty live, founded in 2011, is an online financial media network, tastytrade (previously known as tastyworks) is a self-directed retail brokerage firm that launched in 2017, tasty Software Solutions and tastyfx, is a registered Forex broker-dealer.

In 2021, London-based IG Group acquired tastylive, Inc.

(previously known as tastytrade) and assigned it to lead business in North America.

tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US over the past few years.

Changing the IG US name to tastyfx marks the next chapter, in aligning with the tasty brand family and offering a more forex-focused experience.

This combined team has years of experience like institutional brokers, but also a passion for disrupting the entire trading industry.

Our dream is simple: we want more people to find more success with a better trading experience.

That’s why we’re investing heavily in the right people, technology, and media to make that happen in the US and across the globe.

Location

Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.

*Don't meet every single requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification.

Our team is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!