AI - Video Editor (Microdrama Vertical) Job ID: 411077

Kuku FM, Inc.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuku FM, Inc. is seeking an AI Video Editor to turn ideas, scripts, and footage into compelling micro-dramas for mobile audiences. You will blend live-action with AI-generated content, using editing and AI tools to shape visual language and storytelling.

The role emphasizes storytelling through pacing, hooks, and cliffhangers, with collaboration across directors, writers, AI artists, and sound designers. Proficiency in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve is required.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years editing experience in fiction, micro-dramas, web series, TV, or ads.
• Strong portfolio showing cinematic storytelling and technical polish.
• Advanced Premiere Pro & After Effects (compositing, masking, tracking).
• Working proficiency in DaVinci Resolve (color, grading, finishing).
• Fluent Hindi, working proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Edit live-action & AI-generated micro-dramas for 9:16 mobile format.
• Build hooks, emotional peaks, twists, and cliffhangers.
• Maintain pacing, continuity, and visual rhythm.
• Fix AI-video issues: lip-sync errors, flickering, warping, facial inconsistencies.
• Handle AI post-production: cleanup, upscaling, interpolation, shot extension.
• Color-match and blend live-action with AI footage.
• Create titles, captions, motion graphics, recaps, and end cards.
• Edit sound: dialogue balance, music, Foley, ambience.
• Collaborate with directors, writers, AI artists, and sound designers.
• Maintain organized files, proxies, and version control; QC and export per platform specs.

Skills

Video editing

Storytelling

Pacing

AI video generation

Lip-sync troubleshooting

Color grading

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Job description

About the Role

We’re looking for an AI Video Editor who thinks like a storyteller and can turn ideas, videos, and scripts into compelling videos. You’ll work on fast-paced, mobile-first micro-dramas across both live-action and AI-generated video, using editing and AI to shape everything from the visual language to the final storytelling experience. We’re looking for someone who sees editing and AI as powerful creative mediums for visual storytelling. You should be enthusiastic about AI and AI video generation, curious about new tools and workflows, and capable of turning creative ideas into reality through the combination of AI, editing, and storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit live-action & AI-generated micro-dramas for 9:16 mobile format
• Build hooks, emotional peaks, twists, and cliffhangers
• Maintain pacing, continuity (character, costume, lighting, eyeline), and visual rhythm
• Fix AI-video issues: lip-sync errors, flickering, warping, facial inconsistencies
• Handle AI post-production: cleanup, upscaling, interpolation, shot extension, compositing
• Color-match and blend live-action with AI-generated footage
• Create titles, captions, motion graphics, recaps, and end cards
• Edit sound: dialogue balance, music, Foley, ambience
• Collaborate with directors, writers, AI artists, and sound designers
• Maintain organized files, proxies, and version controlQC and export per platform specs.

What We are Looking For

• 2–5 years editing experience (fiction, micro-dramas, web series, TV, or ads)
• Strong portfolio showing cinematic storytelling and technical polish
• Advanced Premiere Pro & After Effects (compositing, masking, tracking)
• Working proficiency in DaVinci Resolve (color, grading, finishing)
• Understanding of retention principles: hooks, pacing, cliffhangers
• Experience with AI-generated footage and error identification
• Fluent Hindi, working proficiency in English

Preferred

• Micro-drama / vertical drama / episodic fiction experience
• High-volume production pipeline experience
• Generative AI video/image/lip-sync tool proficiency

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.

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