Junior Editor

Ride Shotgun; Leeds; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday off

Salary sacrifice holidays

Sick pay

Cycle to work

Pension contribution

Health cash plan

Childcare salary sacrifice

Job summary

Ride Shotgun in Leeds is seeking aJunior Editor to polish a range of content, including short-form social videos. You will edit, polish and adapt material to align with client brands and quality standards, ensuring consistency and high engagement across platforms.

You will work closely with the creative team, applying a strong eye for detail, timely delivery, and platform-native formatting while contributing to the growth of skills within a fast-paced hybrid agency environment.

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio showcasing social media content.
• Proficiency with Adobe post-production tools.
• Creative, highly collaborative with attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Edit short-form social videos with transitions and captions.
• Format assets for platform-native delivery.
• Collaborate with the creative team to maintain brand standards.
• Organise rushes and maintain Motion Department files.
• Stay up-to-date with social media trends.
• Deliver high-quality motion assets efficiently.

Skills

Portfolio

Adobe Premiere Pro

Attention to detail

Time management

Collaboration

File organization

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Job description

We ride shotgun with the world’s best brands to create award-winning work at pace. Think names like: HSBC, Boots, Nestlé and Amazon. We’re a hybrid agency that brings together strategic thinkers, creatives, producers and technologists. Amplifying everyone’s skills with the power of AI and technology. Creating work that you’ll be proud to be a part of.

Find out more at rideshotgun.global.

The role

We are looking for a creative, detail-oriented Junior Editor to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for editing, polishing, and adapting a wide variety of content—including short-form videos tailored for social media platforms. You will work closely with our creative team to ensure all output aligns with our clients brands, maintains strict quality standards, and drives audience engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality motion assets as efficiently as possible, with a very strong attention to detail
• Short-Form Video Editing: Assemble and edit short-form videos including adding transitions, text overlays, audio, and subtitles as well as basic grading
• Platform Adaptation: Reformat core content into platform-native assets
• Collaborate with the creative team and use own initiative to deliver work with impact
• Trend & Quality Monitoring: Stay updated on emerging social media trends, platform features, and best practices to suggest creative improvements for upcoming content.
• Maintain a drive to succeed and desire to improve, continually develop your skillset and enhance the quality of the work we produce
• Take responsibility for organisation and admin of the Motion Department, ingesting rushes, organizing files etc.

Required skills

• A strong, professional and unique portfolio of work showcasing a wide range of projects with a focus on social media content
• Exceptional knowledge of key Adobe post production software
• Highly creative and collaborative
• Methodical approach to work with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask
• Experience of a wide range of workflows. Excellent organisation and file structure skills for managing projects from project start to delivery, including versioning and rendering, confident delivering across a range of platforms.

Location and working hours

This role will be based from our Leeds office, 9am – 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.

What we offer

You’ll join a global team that backs each other and delivers joined-up strategy, creative and production that moves faster and delivers more, whilst having fun along the way.

On top of a competitive salary, here are more benefits our ‘Riders’ enjoy:

• Your birthday off.
• Additional holidays through salary sacrifice.
• Company sick pay.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Pension contribution.
• Westfield Health cash plan.
• Childcare salary sacrifice.

How we work

We expect all our team members to share the same behaviour and culture code as Ride Shotgun, check them out below!

We make it happen:

ownership matters here. We step up, back ourselves and get things done. Proactive, practical, proud of what we produce.

We ride as one:

one team, always. No egos, no drama. Trust is everything. We look out for each other and do our best work together.

We question everything:

we stay curious, challenge the expected and look for better ways to do things. That applies to our work, our thinking and ourselves.

Equal opportunities statement

Ride Shotgun is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and will provide reasonable adjustments where needed.