Senior Cinematographer, Brand StudioNew$150K–$180K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Cinematographer to define how Perplexity looks on film. Working with the Creative Director and Video Lead, you’ll translate our visual identity into a practical cinematographic language, then bring it to life across the team’s day-to-day output.

What you'll do

  • Partner with the Creative Director and Video Lead to define and evolve: Perplexity’s cinematographic language, and turn it into repeatable approaches for lighting, lensing, composition, movement, and color.

  • Shoot and light a steady mix of day-to-day content: candid office moments, executive interviews, product demos, social, events, and documentary stories.

  • Lead cinematography on brand films, campaigns, partnerships, and launches.

  • Scale to the work: operate solo with a minimal kit, lead a small crew, or help build a full camera, lighting, grip, team (with help from producers).

  • Bring storytelling ideas to the table through moodboards, shot lists, storyboards, and experimentation.

  • Own camera, lighting, and movement decisions from creative development: through capture: build packages, run tests and tech scouts, and solve constraints before the shoot.

What they're looking for

  • + years as a cinematographer or DP across branded, commercial, documentary, and interview work.
  • A standout reel showing visual authorship, lighting craft, camera movement,: and an eye for honest, unscripted moments.
  • A strong point of view, paired with the sensitivity to work within and strengthen an existing brand.
  • Deep command of camera systems, lenses, exposure, color pipelines, lighting, grip, and on-set monitoring.
  • Genuinely hands-on: equally comfortable building a camera, shaping light, operating, troubleshooting, and leading a crew.
  • The judgment to make premium images under real constraints, solo with a small: kit or leading a full production.
  • Strong pre-production instincts: turning a creative idea into a technically sound, right-sized plan.
  • Experience briefing and leading freelance crews and vendors on set, and: managing professional production equipment.