Senior Trailer Editor

Major Players | B Corp™; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Major Players in London is seeking a Senior Trailer Editor to craft emotionally powerful trailers that grow the brand’s shows and shape their voice. You will own edits from brief to delivery and collaborate with the Social team to strengthen audience engagement.

You’ll work with Premiere Pro, After Effects, and AI-assisted workflows, balancing storytelling with data insights to raise retention and impact. This hybrid London role requires living in London.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of story structure and emotional progression.
• Advanced skills in Adobe Premiere Pro and confidence in After Effects, Audition and Photoshop.
• Technical understanding of codecs, sequence settings, colour management and audio.
• Understanding of how YouTube/Instagram performance data should shape edits.
• Growth mindset; receptive to feedback and pushing creative boundaries.
• Comfort with structured workflows and storytelling systems.

Responsibilities

• Own trailer and teaser edits from assembly to final delivery, maintaining pacing, story clarity, music, and emotional build.
• Shape narrative arcs that hold attention and drive viewer retention.
• Deliver edits that meet creative and technical standards across sound, graphics and export workflows.
• Use performance data (retention curves, AVD, click-off points) to improve future edits.
• Apply and help develop internal references, templates, and storytelling frameworks, and bring new ideas to the team.
• Work within Premiere Pro, After Effects, and AI-assisted workflows, and suggest process improvements.
• Use AI tools like Runway, Firefly and Descript where they enhance speed and quality.
• Collaborate with Producers and Senior Editors to ensure trailers align with show mission, tone, and goals.
• Join edit reviews and guide freelancers with references and direction.

Skills

Story structure

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Audition

Photoshop

Color management

Audio editing

Performance data

AI editing tools

Tools

Runway

Firefly

Descript

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

London - Hybrid (must be living in London with RTW)

Salary - dependant on experience

My client is a fast-growing media company and investment fund on a mission to elevate the stories, build the communities and support the founders that inspire a happier, healthier humanity. They scale creator-led new media IP, including one of the world's most-watched longform interview shows, and run an investment fund and venture studio alongside it.

As Senior Trailer Editor, you'll create emotionally powerful, high-retention trailers that help grow the brand's shows and shape their voice. You'll own edits from brief to delivery, help develop the trailer style, and support the systems that make world-class editing repeatable. Reporting to the Head of Trailers, you'll work closely with fellow Senior Editors, Producers and the Social team. This role suits a craft-led editor who loves story, learns from data and wants to keep raising their standard.

The Role

• Own trailer and teaser edits from assembly to final delivery, keeping pacing, story clarity, music selection and emotional build consistently high.
• Shape narrative arcs that hold attention and drive viewer retention.
• Deliver edits that meet creative and technical standards across sound, graphics and export workflows.
• Use performance data, including retention curves, AVD and click-off points, to strengthen future edits.
• Apply and help develop internal references, templates and story frameworks, and bring new storytelling patterns and creative ideas to the team.
• Work within established Premiere Pro, After Effects and AI-assisted workflows, and suggest ways to streamline the process.
• Use AI tools such as Runway, Firefly and Descript where they improve speed and creative quality.
• Work with Producers and Senior Editors so each trailer fits the show’s mission, tone and goals, and provide clear exports, alt cuts and deliverables for the Social and Production teams.
• Join edit reviews and post-mortems, and guide freelance editors with references, templates and clear direction when needed.

What You’ll Bring

• A strong grasp of story structure, emotional progression and attention engineering, with a proven ability to turn longform conversation into tight, compelling trailers (essential).
• Advanced skills in Adobe Premiere Pro and confidence in After Effects, Audition and Photoshop (essential).
• A strong technical understanding of codecs, sequence settings, colour management and audio, with clean, platform-ready exports every time.
• An understanding of how YouTube and Instagram performance data should shape edits, and the ability to balance instinct with metrics.
• A growth mindset: you take feedback well, act on it consistently and are keen to push creative boundaries.
• Comfort working within structured workflows and storytelling systems, with organised projects, assets and timelines.
• Experience with AI-assisted editing tools would be an advantage.

Major Players are the UK's leading digital, marketing, and creative talent agency, and over the last 30 years we've consistently championed our people and communities. As a proud B Corp, we are committed to improving diversity, equity and inclusion within the industries we service, creating impactful and sustainable change for our partners, candidates and employees.

We offer equal opportunities to all candidates regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, age, and other protected status as required by applicable law. For further information about our DE&I commitments, please visit: www.majorplayers.co.uk/diversity-equity-inclusion/