Senior Video Editor: Lead Digital Content & Storytelling

IG Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule (3 days in office

Competitive salary

Flexible Benefits Package

Private medical cover

Life insurance

25 Days holiday + Birthday + voluntary

Job summary

IG Group in the UK is looking for a Senior Videos Editor to lead the storytelling and production quality across live shows, podcasts, and social formats. You will shape formats, define standards, and direct freelancers while maintaining fast turnarounds in a dynamic, media-rich environment.

You will oversee both long-form and short-form content, ensuring editorial excellence and cohesive branding across YouTube, podcasts, and social channels, with a hybrid in-office schedule.

Qualifications

• Senior experience editing both long-form and short-form video content, with a strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling, pacing, and production quality.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and the broader Creative Suite, including After Effects.
• Experience briefing and managing freelance or contract creative resource, including quality control and creative direction of others' output.
• Confident with colour grading, audio editing, and motion graphics to a professional standard.
• Solid understanding of social media platforms, content formats, and what drives engagement across TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
• Ability to work at pace and turn around edits quickly, including in a live environment.
• Experience setting or improving an edit workflow, and mentoring or quality-checking the work of less experienced editors.

Responsibilities

• Edit full episodes of IG's preproduced and live content for YouTube, and cut podcast recordings for distribution across all major platforms.
• Shape content strategy and format development for shows and podcasts, working with producers on what stories to tell and how, not just how they're cut.
• Define and own the creative and technical standards for video output across the team — briefing, style, pacing, and QC — acting as the final creative authority on edit quality before content goes live.
• Record and edit purpose-made social content with on-air presenters, preparing assets for the social team to distribute.
• Brief, direct, and manage freelance editors and contract resource as required, ensuring output meets brand and editorial standards.
• Create motion graphics video content for YouTube from brief, applying colour grading, audio mixing, and sound design to a consistently high production standard.
• Craft compelling narratives in both long-form and short-form formats, with a strong instinct for pacing, tone, and structure.
• Identify format and platform opportunities ahead of the curve, and pitch these into the content strategy rather than waiting to be briefed.
• Collaborate with producers, presenters, and the social team to refine the editorial process and optimise output across all channels.
• Act as the video/creative point of contact in cross-functional planning with producers, presenters, and social, shaping how concepts translate into content rather than receiving a finished brief.

Skills

Senior video editing

Storytelling

Editorial leadership

Social media know-how

Mentoring editors

Workflow improvement

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects

Color grading

Audio editing

Motion graphics

Job description

IG Group in the UK is looking for a Senior Videos Editor to lead the storytelling and production quality across live shows, podcasts, and social formats. You will shape formats, define standards, and direct freelancers while maintaining fast turnarounds in a dynamic, media-rich environment.

You will oversee both long-form and short-form content, ensuring editorial excellence and cohesive branding across YouTube, podcasts, and social channels, with a hybrid in-office schedule.