Sr. Video Editor

The Role:

What You’ll Do:

• Edit and produce high-impact video content for diverse platforms, including educational courses, social media campaigns, product launches, brand communications, and ad creatives.
• Elevate storytelling by expertly utilizing visuals, pacing, music/sound design, and effects while maintaining strict consistency with brand guidelines.
• Manage the full post-production lifecycle, including advanced color grading, motion graphics, sound design, visual effects (VFX), and final output.
• Optimize and customize video assets for specific distribution channels, including YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and paid advertising networks.

Collaboration & Strategy

• Act as a proactive creative partner, collaborating closely with content creators, subject matter experts, marketers, designers, and producers to conceptualize video formats and narrative structures.
• Provide expert input during pre-production on storyboarding, scripting, and shot selection to ensure content is captured with post-production efficiency in mind.
• Experiment continuously with new editing styles, formats, and emerging video trends to keep our content fresh, engaging, and cutting-edge within the ed-tech space.

Workflow:

• Maintain high technical standards across all projects, ensuring flawless exports, quick turnarounds, and adherence to all technical specifications.
• Establish and document best practices, efficient editing pipelines, and scalable post-production workflows to increase overall team productivity.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks effectively to meet aggressive production deadlines.
• Oversee asset management, ensuring file structures are organized, video assets are properly archived, and project handoffs are seamless.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across the organization to manage timelines, revisions, and secure final approvals for all video outputs.

What You’ve Done

• 5+ years of professional video editing experience, ideally within an ed-tech, digital media, or fast-paced agency environment.
• Developed expert-level proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro with a strong working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Audition, Photoshop).
• Demonstrated mastery of color grading, motion graphics, and audio mixing/sound design.
• Created a strong portfolio showcasing compelling, high-quality video work across various formats and distribution channels.
• Proven ability to translate written or verbal creative briefs into compelling visual narratives.

You Are:

• A proactive storyteller who treats every edit as an opportunity to enhance the narrative.
• Technically fluent, with a high standard for quality, smooth exports, and quick turnarounds.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and excellent at managing multiple deadlines simultaneously.
• An effective communicator able to articulate creative choices to non-editors.

What Success Looks Like:

• Success in this role will be measured by the efficiency of the post-production pipeline, the quality of the final output, and the overall performance of the video content.
• Workflow Efficiency: Reduce average video editing time by 15% within the first 6 months by establishing and implementing robust best practices and workflows.
• Content Quality & Engagement (Soft KPI): Editors' final cuts require fewer than 1 revision on average before stakeholder approval.
• Technical Excellence: Maintain a zero-error rate on final exports (i.e., no issues with resolution, aspect ratios, or audio mixing) across all platforms.

Why Join Us:

• If you are ready to define the look and feel of high-impact educational video content and lead a crucial part of the creative pipeline, this is your opportunity. You'll have the chance to implement best practices and see your work impact millions of learners.
• If you are a proactive editor ready to shape the future of learning through video, we would love to see your portfolio/showreel.