Video Editor [AQ-18282]
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like responsibilities list items, qualifications list items, nice-to-have list items, benefits list items, pay range.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe a brief description), Responsibilities (What You Will Do), Requirements (maybe Must-Have Qualifications), Qualifications (maybe Nice-to-Have?), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits, Pay. Could also have Schedule if present (none). We'll omit Schedule.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to ensure we don't create sections with placeholder text.
Let's extract content.
First, introductory paragraphs about the role and organization: "Aquent is proud to partner with a leading creative studio...". That's about the role/company. Could be "About the role". We'll put that in
.
Then responsibilities: list under "What You Will Do". We'll create
Responsibilities
then - each bullet.
We need to capture each bullet exactly as in posting.
Let's list responsibilities bullets:
- Edit a wide array of content, including commercial spots, digital campaigns, social-first cuts, and long-form branded pieces, ensuring each deliverable is polished, compelling, and optimized for its specific platform.
- Translate creative briefs into effective editorial approaches, actively contributing ideas for pacing, music, and visual rhythm while remaining open to feedback and creative direction.
- Develop and manage multi-deliverable versioning packages, meticulously adapting approved masters into various lengths, aspect ratios, and platform-specific formats (e.g., broadcast, digital, social media, out-of-home).
- Bring a unique creative perspective to the edit suite, making active contributions to performance choices, narrative structure, and music selection, balancing creative ambition with strategic objectives.
- Stay abreast of the latest platform trends, viral content formats, platform algorithms, and the evolving visual language of social media, integrating this knowledge into your editorial choices to build brand presence, keep content fresh, and remain culturally resonant.
- Strategically craft social-first cuts designed to maximize viewer retention, scroll-stopping visual hooks, and platform-specific engagement across channel footprints.
- Maintain rigorous project organization, including clean bin and folder structures, consistent naming conventions, and accurate media management, ensuring seamless collaboration.
- Prepare and export all deliverables to precise technical specifications, including codec, resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, and loudness standards, performing thorough final technical reviews.
- Contribute to and uphold departmental editorial standard operating procedures and workflow documentation, helping to build a clean and consistent post-production environment.
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate repetitive technical tasks, such as export batches and proxy generation, to maximize creative time and efficiency.
- Prepare clean and complete handoff packages for downstream post-production departments, including conform materials, audio exports, and visual effects pull lists, ensuring smooth transitions.
- Collaborate closely with creative directors, art directors, social media strategists, and producers throughout the editing process, actively participating in reviews and communicating proactively on project status and potential issues.
- Work fluidly with the broader post-production team, including motion designers, colorists, and audio engineers, integrating their work seamlessly into timelines and maintaining strong inter-departmental communication.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects effectively, tracking your workload, proactively flagging scheduling risks, and keeping stakeholders informed on project progress.
- Contribute to a positive, energized, and high-functioning studio environment, fostering a collaborative atmosphere where exceptional creative work thrives.
Now Must-Have Qualifications bullets:
- Minimum of 3-5 years of dedicated experience in editorial roles, ideally within a commercial post facility, advertising agency, or in-house creative studio, with a strong portfolio demonstrating creative and technical editorial work across commercial, digital, and social formats.
- Proven track record of creating social content that increases brand presence, audience engagement, and channel growth across key platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn).
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and/or Avid Media Composer, including expertise in multicam editorial, shared storage environments, project organization, and multi-deliverable sequence management.
- Working knowledge of the broader Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Photoshop, and Audition, for supporting temp graphics, basic compositing, and audio fixes within an editorial context.
- Strong understanding of media formats, codecs, and technical delivery requirements across broadcast, digital, and social platforms, including ProRes, DNxHD, H.264/H.265, loudness standards, and platform-specific aspect ratio and encoding specifications.
- Demonstrated experience editing for major social media platforms, with a deep understanding of content optimization for pacing, platform hooks, vertical video formats, captioning, and viewer behavior on each platform.
- Exceptional project organization and file management discipline, with experience in shared storage environments and the ability to maintain clean, well-structured projects across multiple concurrent productions.
- A creative and solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving, capable of identifying project needs, proposing clear paths forward, and executing efficiently under deadline pressure without compromising quality.
- Proficiency in production management and collaboration tools such as Airtable, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word), Google Slides and PowerPoint, Slack, and Teams.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications bullets:
- Deep interest or background in social media strategy, channel analytics, and performance-driven creative optimization.
- Proficiency in DaVinci Resolve for editorial, color review, or delivery workflows.
- Experience collaborating closely with motion design and computer graphics teams, understanding how to effectively integrate placeholder graphics, computer graphics renders, and motion design elements into timelines.
- Working knowledge of color science and color-managed workflows, including log formats, LUT application, and correct sequence setup for downstream color grading.
- Experience in a marketing, retail, or e-commerce environment, understanding how editorial decisions align with campaign objectives, social media campaigns, brand standards, and legal compliance.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted editorial tools, such as auto-captioning and dialogue-based search, and an interest in leveraging them to enhance efficiency and creative capacity on high-volume projects.
Benefits from Aquent Talent: "Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium."
We'll list as bullet list.
Pay: "The target hiring compensation range for this role is ___$40_____ to _____$42______." That seems weird formatting with underscores. Probably $40 to $42 (maybe per hour?). We'll preserve as "$40 to $42". We'll output as
Pay: $40 to $42
maybe within a Pay section.
We need to avoid repeating "About Aquent Talent" duplicated. We'll just include benefits once.
We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove those paragraphs.
Now structure:
About the role
... introductory paragraphs ...
We need to include the introductory descriptive paragraphs about the role and organization. There are two similar paragraphs at start. We'll combine them into a concise prose but must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. We cannot omit details; we need to preserve all substantive information. However we can combine sentences as long as we keep all info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must not lose any detail. We can rephrase but must keep all info. Safer to keep original sentences as separate maybe.
We have two paragraphs that are largely similar. We could keep both as separate
to preserve all info. That's okay.
Let's extract the first paragraph: "Aquent is proud to partner with a leading creative studio that stands at the forefront of shaping how a major brand connects with its audience. This dynamic organization is renowned for its innovative approach to content creation, driving engagement across diverse platforms and campaigns. Joining this team means becoming a pivotal creative force, transforming raw footage into captivating stories that resonate with millions, expand social reach, and significantly impact brand perception. As a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, you will wield your creative vision and technical expertise to craft compelling long-form, commercial, digital, and social content that will elevate a prominent brand’s presence across every channel. Your work will not only drive engagement but also push the boundaries of creative output, making a tangible impact on how stories are told, how audiences interact on social platforms, and how the brand is perceived by a vast audience."
Second paragraph: "Are you a visionary storyteller with a passion for transforming raw footage into captivating narratives? This exhilarating role offers the opportunity to become a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, crafting compelling content and high-impact social assets that resonate with millions. You will be instrumental in shaping how a prominent brand connects with its audience, building its digital and social footprint, pushing creative boundaries, and driving engagement across diverse platforms. Your expertise will directly impact brand perception and elevate the overall presence of a major brand across every channel."
We'll keep both as
under About the role.
Now Responsibilities section.
Now Requirements section: maybe we call it "Requirements" for Must-Have Qualifications.
Now Qualifications section: maybe "Nice-to-Have Qualifications".
Now Skills: Could be combined but we already have qualifications covering skills. Might not need separate Skills section. But we could include Skills if we want to list technical skills like Adobe Premiere Pro etc. However those are already in qualifications. To avoid thin sections, we can omit Skills.
Now Benefits section.
Now Pay section.
Now ensure we don't include Schedule.
Now output HTML fragment.
Let's craft.
We'll need to escape any HTML special characters? Not needed.
We'll produce:
About the role
Aquent is proud to partner with a leading creative studio that stands at the forefront of shaping how a major brand connects with its audience. This dynamic organization is renowned for its innovative approach to content creation, driving engagement across diverse platforms and campaigns. Joining this team means becoming a pivotal creative force, transforming raw footage into captivating stories that resonate with millions, expand social reach, and significantly impact brand perception. As a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, you will wield your creative vision and technical expertise to craft compelling long-form, commercial, digital, and social content that will elevate a prominent brand’s presence across every channel. Your work will not only drive engagement but also push the boundaries of creative output, making a tangible impact on how stories are told, how audiences interact on social platforms, and how the brand is perceived by a vast audience.
Are you a visionary storyteller with a passion for transforming raw footage into captivating narratives? This exhilarating role offers the opportunity to become a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, crafting compelling content and high-impact social assets that resonate with millions. You will be instrumental in shaping how a prominent brand connects with its audience, building its digital and social footprint, pushing creative boundaries, and driving engagement across diverse platforms. Your expertise will directly impact brand perception and elevate the overall presence of a major brand across every channel.
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like responsibilities list items, qualifications list items, nice-to-have list items, benefits list items, pay range. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe a brief description), Responsibilities (What You Will Do), Requirements (maybe Must-Have Qualifications), Qualifications (maybe Nice-to-Have?), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits, Pay. Could also have Schedule if present (none). We'll omit Schedule. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to ensure we don't create sections with placeholder text. Let's extract content. First, introductory paragraphs about the role and organization: "Aquent is proud to partner with a leading creative studio...". That's about the role/company. Could be "About the role". We'll put that in
. Then responsibilities: list under "What You Will Do". We'll create
Responsibilities
then- each bullet.
We need to capture each bullet exactly as in posting.
Let's list responsibilities bullets:
- Edit a wide array of content, including commercial spots, digital campaigns, social-first cuts, and long-form branded pieces, ensuring each deliverable is polished, compelling, and optimized for its specific platform.
- Translate creative briefs into effective editorial approaches, actively contributing ideas for pacing, music, and visual rhythm while remaining open to feedback and creative direction.
- Develop and manage multi-deliverable versioning packages, meticulously adapting approved masters into various lengths, aspect ratios, and platform-specific formats (e.g., broadcast, digital, social media, out-of-home).
- Bring a unique creative perspective to the edit suite, making active contributions to performance choices, narrative structure, and music selection, balancing creative ambition with strategic objectives.
- Stay abreast of the latest platform trends, viral content formats, platform algorithms, and the evolving visual language of social media, integrating this knowledge into your editorial choices to build brand presence, keep content fresh, and remain culturally resonant.
- Strategically craft social-first cuts designed to maximize viewer retention, scroll-stopping visual hooks, and platform-specific engagement across channel footprints.
- Maintain rigorous project organization, including clean bin and folder structures, consistent naming conventions, and accurate media management, ensuring seamless collaboration.
- Prepare and export all deliverables to precise technical specifications, including codec, resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, and loudness standards, performing thorough final technical reviews.
- Contribute to and uphold departmental editorial standard operating procedures and workflow documentation, helping to build a clean and consistent post-production environment.
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate repetitive technical tasks, such as export batches and proxy generation, to maximize creative time and efficiency.
- Prepare clean and complete handoff packages for downstream post-production departments, including conform materials, audio exports, and visual effects pull lists, ensuring smooth transitions.
- Collaborate closely with creative directors, art directors, social media strategists, and producers throughout the editing process, actively participating in reviews and communicating proactively on project status and potential issues.
- Work fluidly with the broader post-production team, including motion designers, colorists, and audio engineers, integrating their work seamlessly into timelines and maintaining strong inter-departmental communication.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects effectively, tracking your workload, proactively flagging scheduling risks, and keeping stakeholders informed on project progress.
- Contribute to a positive, energized, and high-functioning studio environment, fostering a collaborative atmosphere where exceptional creative work thrives.
Now Must-Have Qualifications bullets:
- Minimum of 3-5 years of dedicated experience in editorial roles, ideally within a commercial post facility, advertising agency, or in-house creative studio, with a strong portfolio demonstrating creative and technical editorial work across commercial, digital, and social formats.
- Proven track record of creating social content that increases brand presence, audience engagement, and channel growth across key platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn).
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and/or Avid Media Composer, including expertise in multicam editorial, shared storage environments, project organization, and multi-deliverable sequence management.
- Working knowledge of the broader Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Photoshop, and Audition, for supporting temp graphics, basic compositing, and audio fixes within an editorial context.
- Strong understanding of media formats, codecs, and technical delivery requirements across broadcast, digital, and social platforms, including ProRes, DNxHD, H.264/H.265, loudness standards, and platform-specific aspect ratio and encoding specifications.
- Demonstrated experience editing for major social media platforms, with a deep understanding of content optimization for pacing, platform hooks, vertical video formats, captioning, and viewer behavior on each platform.
- Exceptional project organization and file management discipline, with experience in shared storage environments and the ability to maintain clean, well-structured projects across multiple concurrent productions.
- A creative and solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving, capable of identifying project needs, proposing clear paths forward, and executing efficiently under deadline pressure without compromising quality.
- Proficiency in production management and collaboration tools such as Airtable, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word), Google Slides and PowerPoint, Slack, and Teams.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications bullets:
- Deep interest or background in social media strategy, channel analytics, and performance-driven creative optimization.
- Proficiency in DaVinci Resolve for editorial, color review, or delivery workflows.
- Experience collaborating closely with motion design and computer graphics teams, understanding how to effectively integrate placeholder graphics, computer graphics renders, and motion design elements into timelines.
- Working knowledge of color science and color-managed workflows, including log formats, LUT application, and correct sequence setup for downstream color grading.
- Experience in a marketing, retail, or e-commerce environment, understanding how editorial decisions align with campaign objectives, social media campaigns, brand standards, and legal compliance.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted editorial tools, such as auto-captioning and dialogue-based search, and an interest in leveraging them to enhance efficiency and creative capacity on high-volume projects.
Benefits from Aquent Talent: "Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium."
We'll list as bullet list.
Pay: "The target hiring compensation range for this role is ___$40_____ to _____$42______." That seems weird formatting with underscores. Probably $40 to $42 (maybe per hour?). We'll preserve as "$40 to $42". We'll output as
Pay: $40 to $42
maybe within a Pay section. We need to avoid repeating "About Aquent Talent" duplicated. We'll just include benefits once. We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove those paragraphs. Now structure:About the role
... introductory paragraphs ...
We need to include the introductory descriptive paragraphs about the role and organization. There are two similar paragraphs at start. We'll combine them into a concise prose but must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. We cannot omit details; we need to preserve all substantive information. However we can combine sentences as long as we keep all info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must not lose any detail. We can rephrase but must keep all info. Safer to keep original sentences as separatemaybe. We have two paragraphs that are largely similar. We could keep both as separate
to preserve all info. That's okay. Let's extract the first paragraph: "Aquent is proud to partner with a leading creative studio that stands at the forefront of shaping how a major brand connects with its audience. This dynamic organization is renowned for its innovative approach to content creation, driving engagement across diverse platforms and campaigns. Joining this team means becoming a pivotal creative force, transforming raw footage into captivating stories that resonate with millions, expand social reach, and significantly impact brand perception. As a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, you will wield your creative vision and technical expertise to craft compelling long-form, commercial, digital, and social content that will elevate a prominent brand’s presence across every channel. Your work will not only drive engagement but also push the boundaries of creative output, making a tangible impact on how stories are told, how audiences interact on social platforms, and how the brand is perceived by a vast audience." Second paragraph: "Are you a visionary storyteller with a passion for transforming raw footage into captivating narratives? This exhilarating role offers the opportunity to become a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, crafting compelling content and high-impact social assets that resonate with millions. You will be instrumental in shaping how a prominent brand connects with its audience, building its digital and social footprint, pushing creative boundaries, and driving engagement across diverse platforms. Your expertise will directly impact brand perception and elevate the overall presence of a major brand across every channel." We'll keep both as
under About the role. Now Responsibilities section. Now Requirements section: maybe we call it "Requirements" for Must-Have Qualifications. Now Qualifications section: maybe "Nice-to-Have Qualifications". Now Skills: Could be combined but we already have qualifications covering skills. Might not need separate Skills section. But we could include Skills if we want to list technical skills like Adobe Premiere Pro etc. However those are already in qualifications. To avoid thin sections, we can omit Skills. Now Benefits section. Now Pay section. Now ensure we don't include Schedule. Now output HTML fragment. Let's craft. We'll need to escape any HTML special characters? Not needed. We'll produce:
About the role
Aquent is proud to partner with a leading creative studio that stands at the forefront of shaping how a major brand connects with its audience. This dynamic organization is renowned for its innovative approach to content creation, driving engagement across diverse platforms and campaigns. Joining this team means becoming a pivotal creative force, transforming raw footage into captivating stories that resonate with millions, expand social reach, and significantly impact brand perception. As a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, you will wield your creative vision and technical expertise to craft compelling long-form, commercial, digital, and social content that will elevate a prominent brand’s presence across every channel. Your work will not only drive engagement but also push the boundaries of creative output, making a tangible impact on how stories are told, how audiences interact on social platforms, and how the brand is perceived by a vast audience.
Are you a visionary storyteller with a passion for transforming raw footage into captivating narratives? This exhilarating role offers the opportunity to become a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team, crafting compelling content and high-impact social assets that resonate with millions. You will be instrumental in shaping how a prominent brand connects with its audience, building its digital and social footprint, pushing creative boundaries, and driving engagement across diverse platforms. Your expertise will directly impact brand perception and elevate the overall presence of a major brand across every channel.