Video Editor

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 full-length 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
• Strong understanding of sound design, music pacing, color correction, and finishing workflows
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail across complex post-production pipelines
• Ability 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