Senior Social Editor Lead
Horizontal Talent · Culver City, CA · Yesterday
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Responsibilities
- Review and refine clip outputs from junior editors to ensure strong pacing, platform fit, and alignment with campaign goals
- Provide clear creative direction on clip selection, timing, framing, and text placement
- Oversee daily clip production across multiple titles, brands, and time-sensitive cultural moments
- Translate briefs from social strategy partners into prioritized assignments for the editing team
- Monitor output volume, turnaround times, and workflow capacity, escalating constraints as needed
- Help develop and maintain SOPs for an AI-assisted clipping workflow
- Partner with publishing teams to support smooth asset handoff and delivery
- Produce clips directly when needed to support deadlines or complex requests
- Support onboarding, coaching, and calibration for social editors to help maintain consistent quality standards
- Use advanced AI clipping tools and contribute ideas for improving prompts, shortcuts, and overall workflow efficiency
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in social media content creation, video editing, or social publishing
- Strong understanding of short-form video best practices for platforms such as Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and X
- Experience managing, mentoring, or coaching junior creative team members
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to handle high-volume, fast-moving work
- Hands-on experience using AI-powered creative tools, automated editing tools, or NLP-based workflows
- Ability to give specific, constructive creative feedback and maintain high quality standards
- Strong understanding of social content performance drivers and platform-native formats
- Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
Skills
- Experience in entertainment, media, or streaming content
- Editorial judgment that elevates work beyond basic execution
- Comfort working in a high-volume environment without losing attention to detail
- Experience collaborating with product or engineering teams on tool feedback and workflow improvements