Senior Story Editor

About the role

R&R Partners is seeking a highly creative, story-driven Senior Editor to support the development of premium, social-first video content for brand and product campaigns. This role is ideal for an editor who can take a wide range of existing assets and shape them into compelling narratives built for today’s social platforms.

Responsibilities

• Edit story-driven, social-first video content across platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Meta, YouTube, and emerging channels.
• Transform existing product assets, campaign footage, stills, packaging imagery, and captured content into engaging video narratives.
• Build strong editorial structures from limited or disparate source materials.
• Create content that feels premium, fast-paced, platform-native, and emotionally engaging.
• Develop edits for product launches, social campaigns, organic content, paid social, ecommerce support, and brand storytelling.
• Partner closely with Producers, Creative, Social, Strategy, and Account teams to understand objectives, audiences, deliverables, and platform needs.
• Interpret creative briefs and shape edits that ladder back to campaign strategy and brand tone.
• Incorporate music, sound design, VO, supers, graphics, and motion elements where needed.
• Support post-production workflows from rough cut through final delivery.
• Maintain organized project files, version control, exports, and delivery specs.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure feedback is addressed clearly and efficiently.
• Bring proactive creative ideas to elevate edits beyond basic assembly.

Requirements

• Senior-level editing experience in advertising, social content, branded content, entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, toys, CPG, or product-driven campaigns.
• Strong portfolio of social-first work that demonstrates storytelling, pacing, taste, and platform fluency.
• Experience editing with product assets, stills, packaging imagery, existing footage, and mixed-media source material.
• Ability to create compelling narratives without always relying on traditional scripted footage.
• Strong understanding of paid and organic social formats, aspect ratios, pacing, hooks, and platform behavior.
• Experience creating content for product launches, drops, collaborations, collector audiences, or fandom-driven brands is a plus.
• Animation, motion graphics, typography, and light compositing skills are highly preferred.
• Experience working with Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, and related post-production tools.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment while staying closely connected to the team.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with multiple deliverables, revisions, and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Strong editorial storytelling instincts.
• Excellent pacing, rhythm, and music sensibility.
• Strong visual taste and attention to detail.
• Able to find a narrative through product, imagery, and motion.
• Strong social-first editing sensibility.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Highly organized post-production workflow.
• Ability to take feedback and translate it efficiently into stronger creative.
• Proactive problem-solving and creative resourcefulness.
• Animation skills a huge plus.

Skills

• Strong portfolio of social-first work that demonstrates storytelling, pacing, taste, and platform fluency.
• Experience editing with product assets, stills, packaging imagery, existing footage, and mixed-media source material.
• Ability to create compelling narratives without always relying on traditional scripted footage.
• Strong understanding of paid and organic social formats, aspect ratios, pacing, hooks, and platform behavior.
• Experience creating content for product launches, drops, collaborations, collector audiences, or fandom-driven brands is a plus.
• Animation, motion graphics, typography, and light compositing skills are highly preferred.
• Experience working with Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, and related post-production tools.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment while staying closely connected to the team.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with multiple deliverables, revisions, and deadlines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Highly organized post-production workflow.
• Ability to take feedback and translate it efficiently into stronger creative.
• Proactive problem-solving and creative resourcefulness.
• Animation skills a huge plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being.
• Recharge and unwind with a generous time-off policy.
• Stay connected with a mobile stipend.
• Secure your financial future with a 401k and company match.
• Make a difference through community involvement with time and financial matching.
• Set goals and track progress through annual performance reviews.
• Learning and development.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The position is fully remote, West Coast.