Video Editor (Trailer-Focused)

About the Role

We’re seeking a Promo and Trailer Focused Video Editor whose primary responsibility is creating high-impact promotional content that drives episode launches, campaigns, partnerships, and audience growth.

This role will focus heavily on crafting compelling trailers, marketing assets, and promotional videos, while also supporting long-form/short-form episode editing as needed. The ideal candidate understands how to identify the hook, build emotional momentum, shape narrative arcs, and deliver tight, strategic edits that move audiences to watch, listen, and take action.

You should be equally passionate about storytelling and performance — someone who thinks in story but edits with retention, engagement, and conversion in mind.

Key Responsibilities

Promotional Editing

• Identify powerful hooks, emotional beats, and standout moments from long-form content
• Create compelling episode trailers, launch promos, and campaign-driven assets
• Edit marketing materials including pre-roll ads, website feature videos, paid social creatives, and partnership campaigns
• Craft concise, high-impact promotional cuts designed to maximize engagement, retention, and conversion
• Enhance edits with music, sound design, pacing, captions, motion graphics, and animation
• Version content across multiple formats, aspect ratios, and distribution platforms
• Collaborate closely with producers, marketers, and creative teams to align promotional content with campaign strategy and brand voice

Long-Form Editing Support

• Edit full-length podcast and video episodes as needed
• Tighten pacing and strengthen narrative structure across conversational content
• Manage multi-cam edits, syncing, and timeline organization
• Apply audio cleanup, mixing, and basic color correction
• Incorporate branded graphics, templates, and visual systems
• Deliver polished final exports optimized for distribution platforms

Narrative Engineering & Editorial Instincts

• Exceptional editorial instincts with a deep understanding of narrative engineering, emotional pacing, audience psychology, and retention strategy
• Knows how to build compelling narrative arcs, create emotional payoff, and structure edits that keep audiences engaged from start to finish
• Thinks strategically about storytelling within short-form content, understanding how every cut, beat, and moment influences audience behavior
• Fluent across the Adobe Creative Suite and complementary creative tools, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop, and Cinema 4D
• Curious, analytical, and confident integrating AI into creative workflows — not just testing tools, but embedding them meaningfully into the editing process
• Strong understanding of YouTube Studio, TikTok Analytics, and platform-specific best practices for maximizing discovery, retention, and performance