Video Editor - AI

Kuku; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuku TV is seeking a Mid‑Senior Video Editor to craft micro‑dramas for mobile audiences using live‑action and AI content. You will shape performance, dialogue, music, and visuals into compelling narratives with strong pacing and cliffhangers.

Ideal candidates have 2–7 years of experience, a strong portfolio, and advanced skills in Premiere Pro and After Effects, plus familiarity with AI tools and DaVinci Resolve for colour and finishing.

Qualifications

• 2–7 years of professional video-editing experience in fiction or micro‑dramas.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling, dramatic pacing, emotional editing, and technical polish.
• Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro skills.
• Advanced Adobe After Effects skills, including compositing, masking, tracking, cleanup, and motion graphics.
• Strong knowledge of Gen AI tools such as Runway, ElevanLabs, Kling, Veo, Adobe Firefly, Topaz or equivalents.

Responsibilities

• Edit live‑action and AI‑generated micro‑dramas for mobile‑first audiences.
• Create powerful opening hooks, emotional peaks, reveals, twists, payoffs, and cliffhangers.
• Shape dialogue, performances, music, SFX, voiceovers, and visuals into compelling narratives.
• Select the strongest takes to maximise emotion, conflict, suspense, and character relationships.
• Maintain strong pacing, visual rhythm, dialogue clarity, narrative progression, and audience retention.
• Apply principles of information control, escalating conflict, pattern interruption, and retention‑driven editing.

Skills

Video editing experience

Storytelling & pacing

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Gen AI tools

DaVinci Resolve

Dialogue editing & sound balance

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Runway

ElevanLabs

Kling

Veo

Topaz Video AI

Adobe Firefly

Job description

About The Role

Kuku TV is looking for a Mid‑Senior Video Editor (2–5 years) who can turn scripts, performances, live‑action footage, and AI‑generated visuals into high‑retention, binge‑worthy micro‑dramas. This role is ideal for an editor who understands that great short‑form storytelling is not just about cutting footage—it’s about hooking viewers, building emotion, escalating conflict, and ending every episode with a reason to watch the next one.

You’ll work across live‑action + AI‑generated content in a fast‑paced, high‑volume episodic production environment.

What You’ll Do

Storytelling & Editing

• Edit live‑action and AI‑generated micro‑dramas for mobile‑first audiences.
• Create powerful opening hooks, emotional peaks, reveals, twists, payoffs, and cliffhangers.
• Shape dialogue, performances, music, SFX, voiceovers, and visuals into compelling narratives.
• Select the strongest takes to maximise emotion, conflict, suspense, and character relationships.
• Maintain strong pacing, visual rhythm, dialogue clarity, narrative progression, and audience retention.
• Apply principles of information control, escalating conflict, pattern interruption, and retention‑driven editing.

Mobile-First Storytelling

• Edit specifically for vertical 9:16 formats and mobile viewing.
• Maintain strong composition, visual hierarchy, readable performances, and screen impact.
• Understand how to optimise storytelling for short attention spans and binge consumption.

AI Video & VFX

• Work confidently with AI‑generated characters, environments, performances, and shots.
• Identify and fix AI‑video issues such as facial inconsistencies, lip‑sync errors, flickering, warping, unnatural movement, frame instability, and continuity issues.
• Handle AI‑assisted post‑production including lip‑sync correction, cleanup, upscaling, frame interpolation, shot extension, masking, tracking, compositing, and background replacement.
• Know when an AI shot can be fixed in post‑production and when it needs to be regenerated.

Visual & Sound Finishing

• Seamlessly integrate live‑action and AI footage through colour correction, grading, reframing, compositing, motion treatment, and visual matching.
• Create titles, captions, transitions, motion graphics, VFX, recaps, end cards, and promotional elements when required.
• Handle dialogue editing, music, ambience, Foley, and SFX to strengthen emotional and dramatic impact.
• Ensure clear audio balance across mobile devices and viewing environments.

Production & Collaboration

• Maintain story, character, costume, location, lighting, eyeline, spatial, and performance continuity.
• Manage multiple episodes, revisions, and priorities in a fast‑moving production pipeline.
• Collaborate with directors, writers, creative producers, AI artists, and sound designers.
• Implement feedback accurately and meet tight delivery timelines.
• Maintain organised project files, proxies, media libraries, naming conventions, version histories, templates, and archival masters.
• Perform creative and technical QC and deliver final episodes to required platform, codec, resolution, frame‑rate, aspect‑ratio, and audio specifications.

What We’re Looking For

Must Have

• 2–7 years of professional video‑editing experience, preferably in fiction, micro‑dramas, web series, films, TV, advertising, digital entertainment, or narrative short‑form content.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling, dramatic pacing, emotional editing, and technical polish.
• Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro skills.
• Advanced Adobe After Effects skills, including compositing, masking, and tracking, cleanup, and motion graphics.
• Strong knowledge of Gen AI tool - Runaway, ElevanLabs, Kling, Veo, Adobe Firefly, Topaz or equivalent
• Working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve for colour correction, grading, finishing, and media management.
• Strong understanding of narrative structure, screen direction, continuity, performance selection, montage, shot progression, and visual rhythm.
• Experience editing dialogue-driven scenes, romance, emotional sequences, action, confrontations, reveals, and cliffhangers.
• Strong understanding of audience retention and mobile‑first 9:16 storytelling.
• Experience working with both live‑action and AI‑generated footage.
• Strong understanding of sound editing, dialogue balancing, music placement, ambience, Foley, and SFX.
• Ability to colour‑match footage from different cameras, tools, and production pipelines.
• Strong eye for character, facial, costume, prop, lighting, eyeline, spatial, and background continuity.
• Ability to manage multiple episodes, revisions, and deadlines in a high‑volume production environment.

AI Experience

Experience with generative AI video/image, lip‑sync, cleanup, enhancement, upscaling, interpolation, shot extension, and compositing workflows is highly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent Hindi and working proficiency in English.
• Experience with micro‑dramas, vertical dramas, episodic fiction, web series, or retention‑driven entertainment.
• Experience in fast‑turnaround, high‑volume episodic production.
• Familiarity with subtitles, dubbing, localisation, and multilingual versioning.
• Knowledge of proxy workflows, shared storage, media relinking, project templates, automated syncing, and structured post‑production handoffs.
• Basic understanding of OTT and digital‑platform delivery standards.
• Film editing, filmmaking, media production, animation, or related degree/diploma is a plus, but not mandatory.

About Us

Founded in 2018, Kuku is India’s leading storytelling platform, offering a vast digital library of microdramas, audio stories, and short courses. Kuku aims to be India’s largest cultural exporter of stories, culture, and history to the world with a firm belief in “Create In India, Create For The World”. We deliver immersive entertainment and education through our OTT platforms: Kuku TV, Kuku FM, Guru, and more. With a mission to provide high‑quality, personalized stories across genres in entertainment, spanning multiple formats and languages, Kuku continues to push boundaries and redefine India’s entertainment industry.

Website: www.kukufm.com

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