Project: Local Developer

Vancouver Actors Guide is hiring a Project: Local Developer based in Vancouver, BC to support the ongoing development and expansion of one of the city’s longest-running free resources for the acting community. This role sits at the intersection of digital production workflow and community platform development, with output that directly serves working actors navigating the local film and television industry. It’s a good fit for a self-directed developer who understands how production and casting ecosystems actually function in a major Canadian film market.

About the Role

Vancouver Actors Guide operates as a weekly newsletter and industry resource connecting actors to work across Vancouver’s active film and television production landscape. The Local Developer in this role works on projects that improve how that content is built, distributed, and maintained, touching everything from newsletter infrastructure to the platforms actors use to find work. A typical day involves identifying development priorities, building or refining features, and keeping production-adjacent tools running cleanly for a community audience that uses them every week.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the digital platforms that support Vancouver Actors Guide’s weekly newsletter distribution and archive.
• Build features that improve how local actors access industry resources, casting notices, and production information.
• Manage the technical workflow connecting editorial content to published output across the guide’s distribution channels.
• Identify and resolve platform issues that affect the actor community’s ability to access free industry resources in a timely way.
• Contribute to project scoping and timelines for new development work tied to the guide’s editorial and production calendar.
• Test and iterate on tools used by a community audience with real working knowledge of the Vancouver film industry.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining community platforms or digital publishing tools, ideally within a media or entertainment context.
• Familiarity with newsletter infrastructure, content management systems, or distribution workflows used in media production.
• A portfolio or examples of completed projects showing end-to-end development work.
• Ability to work independently and deliver on project milestones without close supervision.
• An understanding of how the film and television production community in Vancouver operates is considered a real asset.

Why This Role

Vancouver Actors Guide has been a free resource for the Vancouver acting community for years, which means this work has direct, measurable reach inside an active episodic television and feature film production market. The rate for this role is $75 to $100 per hour, reflecting project-based engagement at a professional level. For a developer who wants their work to land inside an actual film industry community rather than a generic product environment, this is a concrete opportunity.

Apply now for the Project: Local Developer role with Vancouver Actors Guide and put your development work directly in front of the people who depend on it.