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.

You’ll work closely with producers and the post-production team to craft polished episodes that maintain pacing, strengthen storytelling, and elevate the viewer experience. The ideal candidate has strong editorial instincts, understands conversational storytelling, and can balance technical execution with emotional impact.

This role is heavily focused on long-form editing, narrative pacing, visual polish, motion graphics integration, and creating highly engaging short-form content optimized for social platforms.

The ideal candidate understands how to transform long-form conversations into emotionally compelling, high-retention content across platforms while maintaining the integrity of the story and brand voice.

Day-to-Day

This role is highly collaborative and fast-paced. On a typical day, you’ll move between long-form episode editing, social cutdowns, motion graphics work, creative reviews, and iterative feedback sessions with producers and the post-production team.

You’ll regularly:

• Edit long-form podcast and interview content from raw footage through final delivery
• Create high-performing short-form content for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and emerging social platforms
• Review footage to identify compelling emotional moments, strong hooks, and engaging story beats
• Shape narrative pacing, emotional arcs, and conversational flow to create impactful storytelling moments
• Build dynamic cold opens, teasers, and viral-ready clips that immediately capture audience attention
• Use pacing, jump cuts, music, sound design, tension, silence, and visual rhythm to elevate storytelling and emotional impact
• Adapt storytelling styles and editing approaches based on platform behavior and audience consumption patterns
• Collaborate closely with producers to refine narrative structure, emotional clarity, and audience experience across all content
• Continuously experiment with new editing techniques, retention strategies, and social storytelling formats
• Edit multi-camera interviews, conversational content, and documentary-style segments with strong editorial judgment
• Manage timeline organization, syncing, media workflows, versioning, and project management
• Incorporate music, sound design, captions, graphics, and motion elements to strengthen clarity and engagement
• Design and implement motion graphics, animated typography, lower thirds, visual callouts, and transitions
• Create visually dynamic edits through kinetic text, compositing, zooms, punch-ins, speed ramps, and animated social graphics
• Optimize edits for multiple aspect ratios and platform deliverables, including vertical, square, and widescreen formats
• Apply color correction, audio cleanup