Video Editor
143 Studios, LLC · Boston, MA · 1 mo ago
HybridWritingFull-time
About the role
We're looking for a highly skilled Video Editor to join our Post Production team. This role is focused on shaping compelling, emotionally resonant long-form podcast and video content from raw footage through final delivery.
Responsibilities
- Edit long-form podcast/video episodes, trailers, and short-form social content from raw footage through final delivery
- Create rough cuts, implement producer feedback, and manage iterative revisions
- Shape pacing, emotional beats, and narrative structure to maximize viewer retention and engagement
- Craft emotionally impactful edits that strengthen storytelling, tension, clarity, and audience connection
- Create platform-native short-form edits optimized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and other vertical platforms
- Identify compelling hooks, emotional moments, viral-ready clips, and high-retention story beats from long-form conversations
- Build dynamic cold opens, teasers, and social-first edits designed to immediately capture audience attention
- Use pacing, jump cuts, music, sound design, silence, and visual rhythm to elevate storytelling and emotional impact
- Adapt editing approaches and storytelling styles based on platform behavior and audience consumption patterns
- Experiment with retention editing strategies, pacing techniques, and emerging social storytelling formats
- Manage multi-cam edits, syncing, timeline organization, and media workflows
- Incorporate music, sound design, graphics, captions, and motion elements to enhance storytelling
- Apply audio cleanup, color correction, and finishing polish
- Integrate branded graphics, lower thirds, and visual templates
- Collaborate closely with producers and post-production teams throughout the edit process
- Maintain organized project files, exports, templates, and archival systems
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of professional video editing experience across both long-form and short-form content
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro & After Effects
- Advanced motion graphics and animation skills, including animated typography, kinetic text, compositing, visual storytelling, transitions, and branded motion systems
- Strong proficiency in Cinema 4D or equivalent 3D/motion design software is a plus
- Deep understanding of pacing, retention editing, storytelling structure, emotional storytelling, and platform-specific audience behavior
- Experience creating highly engaging short-form content optimized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and other vertical platforms
- Strong understanding of social-first editing styles, audience hooks, watch-time optimization, and engagement-driven storytelling
- Experience editing multi-camera productions, long-form interviews, and conversational content
- Ability to create and integrate motion graphics, visual callouts, animated infographics, and dynamic visual treatments that enhance narrative clarity and engagement
- Strong understanding of sound design, music pacing, color correction, and finishing workflows
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail across complex post-production pipelines
- Able to manage multiple edits, fast turnaround timelines, and iterative feedback in a high-volume production environment
- Strong collaboration skills with experience working cross-functionally with producers, creatives, and social teams
- Passion for creating emotionally impactful content that reaches and inspires millions of people