Video Editor

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Edit product launches and brand films, integrating storytelling, product demonstrations, and visual direction.
• Create founder-led content from interviews, talking-head footage, and behind-the-scenes material.
• Produce short-form videos for platforms such as Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn, focusing on strong hooks and purposeful pacing.
• Develop paid ad creatives with variations in openings, messaging, and calls to action.
• Utilize screen recordings, motion graphics, kinetic typography, and visual explanations to animate product features.
• Manage post-production, including footage selection, editing, color grading, sound design, music, captions, and final exports.
• Employ AI creative tools for generating supporting visuals, voiceovers, and other assets to enhance results or accelerate production.
• Ensure visual identity consistency across various formats and channels.
• Improve content based on performance insights, using data such as retention, watch time, and conversion to inform future edits.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• A strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling, editing proficiency, and visual aesthetic.
• Proficiency in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro, with motion design skills in After Effects or a similar tool.
• Ability to engage viewers within the first three seconds and sustain their interest.
• Skill in transforming extensive recordings into concise, compelling narratives.
• Understanding of how music, silence, sound effects, and pacing influence emotion.
• Comfortable integrating AI tools such as Runway, Kling, Sora, and ElevenLabs into the creative workflow.
• Capable of independent work, meeting deadlines, and responding constructively to feedback.
• Balances production speed with quality and attention to detail for polished results.
• Experience with SaaS product videos, founder content, documentary storytelling, or paid social ads is an advantage.

Work Environment and Company Culture

This role offers the opportunity to shape the video identity of a growing company from an early stage. The Video Editor will collaborate directly with the founder on product launches, storytelling, and public-facing content. The position allows for creative ownership and visibility of work across brand and marketing channels. There is potential for growth into broader creative leadership and involvement in building a video team. The team values ownership, direct communication, high standards, and continuous improvement, thriving on initiative, experimentation, and craft development.

Candidate Expectations

Candidates who prefer detailed instructions for every task, seek a predictable and slow-paced role, struggle with direct feedback or adapting new approaches, prioritize aesthetics over storytelling and results, avoid learning new tools, or bring ego/office politics are not suited for this environment. The ideal candidate is motivated to achieve exceptional results in their craft.