Nomadic Fitness Videographer

Job Overview

BitGym brings runs, bikes, and hikes from all over the world to your cardio machine. You can see how the app works via a 30-second highlight reel here and you can watch a 3-minute video showing our filming & stabilization technology here.

We’re looking to hire EITHER a part-time freelancer or full-time W-2 employee who can serve as a videographer & editor to capture beautiful runs, bikes, and rows in locations around the world. At this time we are specifically looking for a nomadic individual to help us capture the entire United States. Due to the nature and amount of travel, we’re specifically looking for someone who has a live-in vehicle.

As an immersive fitness videographer, you will:

• Plan what beautiful locations to film and travel there
• Film using our camera in three modalities: jogging, biking, and boating.
• Take additional photographs, drone footage, and/or audio recordings. 
• Use a laptop to stabilize and sequence the clips using our proprietary software.
• Do basic audio editing to mask unwanted sounds or splice in new ones. 
• Do some basic writing about the location and information about it. 
• Submit everything (probably via Starlink when mobile)

You are: 

• A runner who is able to comfortably run 6 miles in under an hour, or better. We do need that level of cardiovascular endurance and joint health – running with a camera while steady is not easy. You also should be able to run at 160 steps per minute for long stretches.  
• At least familiar with videography and should have general comfort with technology, photography concepts, and a willingness to learn more. 
• Comfortable enough with English to read this job description and communicate in writing (English fluency not required). 
• Someone who has had a lot of outdoor adventures in your life and who wants to share them. 
• Someone who is observant, patient, and has a profound love of the outdoors. 
• Not bothered by tedious tasks. To get the best outcome you might find yourself filming the same place twice, carefully reviewing footage for mistakes, labeling footage clearly and consistently, etc. 
• Self-motivated, as you won’t have exact instructions from us. You should imagine it’s possible to get up at 4 am so you can get to the ideal spot to film the sunrise in ideal conditions. 

We would start with a contract-to-hire for a few months. The full-time base pay is 60k USD. Plus generous SEP IRA contributions on top and funds to cover your gear, laptop, mobile internet, and travel expenses, which should easily push total comp over 80k for full-time effort. 

We could use footage all over the continental United States *except* California, which we have reasonably well covered due to existing team members living here and capturing much of it already. The ideal person would be interested in spending summer in the northern US and winter in the southern US. In the shortest days of winter, it’s probably best to stick to editing and post-production work, or we can talk about international trips to equatorial or southern hemisphere locations. 

An example of a filming trip might look like this: You plan a trip to a national park, which will require a trip by road, and a plan for boon-docking or lodging once there. You create a plan for six different areas to film, two in each modality.  You then estimate what the trip will cost, and ask us for approval for the expenses.  After approval, you travel there and film for a few weeks. Back at the lodge/vehicle you review each day’s footage and use software tools we provide to stabilize and sequence the footage. You’ll decide if you need to re-shoot it, as it often is faster to do so than trying to solve lighting or stabilization problems in post-production. Sometimes the weather won’t cooperate and you’ll take time off from filming, and work on your production backlog, or future trip planning, instead.

We don’t have fixed vacation or sick leave policies, as the nature of the job is so fluid it’s hard to dictate. We’d simply want to make sure we got about 2-2.5 hrs of produced footage a month. A good week of filming usually yields half that, so you can think of this job as having you in the field filming 10 days of the month, and doing post-production for the rest.

It’s a weird job! The right person will love this role. Many people wouldn’t. That’s why we’re specifically looking for someone who has demonstrated enjoying living this way already.