Video Editor

DevsLane; Dehradun; On-site; INR 300,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of video function

Direct work with founder

Growth opportunities

Job summary

DevsLane is seeking a skilled video editor in Dehradun to drive short-form social content and long-form brand videos. You will craft engaging reels, edits for product stories, and ensure accurate bilingual subtitles for ENG and Hindi.

You’ll own templates, caption systems, and a growing footage library while collaborating with the founder and content team to ship polished cuts.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of video editing experience across short-form and long-form.
• Fluency in a modern NLE — Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, or CapCut Pro.
• Strong pacing, clean cuts, and transitions.
• Captioning for mobile viewing (9:16, 1:1, 16:9).
• Good colour and audio basics.

Responsibilities

• Short-form social content editing (Reels/Shorts) with hooks and captioning.
• Long-form and brand content editing with accuracy and consent.
• Create templates, lower-thirds, and organised footage bank.
• Collaborate with team and iterate on notes.
• Self-shot when required and maintain subtitle quality (ENG/Hindi).

Skills

Video editing

Versatile editing across formats

Storytelling & pacing

Captioning for social

Tools

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

CapCut Pro

Job description

Company Profile

DevsLane is a software engineering firm that provides vetted, high-caliber engineers to clients across FinTech, HealthTech, EdTech, eCommerce, and Blockchain domains. With 100+ successful projects delivered, we have built a reputation for engineering excellence and reliable execution. We operate with a lean, high-performance team where every role carries direct impact and ownership .

Job Responsibilities

Short-form Social Content (≈45% of time)

• Cut Reels, YouTube Shorts, and WhatsApp clips on a weekly cadence.
• Open with a hook that lands audio-off in the first 2 seconds.
• Caption every cut for the phone-first, sound-off viewer.
• Adapt the same source footage across 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 where useful.

Long-form & Brand Content (≈40% of time)

• Cut long-form videos (product, explainer, lesson, brand) for retention on a small screen.
• Edit client, case-study, and team-story films with accuracy and consent.
• Cut 2–3 minute brand/impact films from raw interviews and B-roll that a viewer will watch end-to-end.
• Maintain English and Hindi subtitle quality across long-form.

Library, Templates & Collaboration (≈15% of time)

• Build and maintain project templates, caption styles, lower-thirds, and intro/outros.
• Tag and organise a growing footage bank for reuse.
• Self-shoot on phone/DSLR when the situation calls for it; interview subjects on shoots where needed.
• Share rough cuts early; iterate on founder and content-team notes.

Desired Profile Minimum Requirements

• 2–5 years of video editing experience across short-form and long-form.
• Fluency in a modern NLE — Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, or CapCut Pro.
• Strong pacing instincts; clean cuts; motivated transitions.
• Caption work that reads on a phone (size, placement, line breaks).
• Basic colour and sound that doesn't fight the content.
• Comfortable across vertical (9:16), square (1:1), and horizontal (16:9).
• Story and audience sense — can take the same raw footage and cut it three different ways for three different viewers (the social viewer, the prospective client, the prospective hire), and knows what to leave out.

Preferred Requirements (Nice-to-Have)

• Motion graphics — basic After Effects (titles, callouts, simple animation/tracking).
• Hindi subtitle proficiency — comfortable producing and QA-ing Hindi subtitles, including line-break and on-screen sizing rules.
• Phone / DSLR shooting — can self-shoot a clean interview or B-roll when the team doesn't have a DOP.
• Education / ed-tech or social-impact sector video experience.
• Sound design / light mixing — ducking, ambient beds, dialogue cleanup beyond drag-and-drop music.
• AI-assisted editing fluency — uses tools (auto-caption, scene detect, denoise) with judgment, not blindly.

Skills Required

• Short-form and long-form editing in a modern NLE.
• Phone-readable captioning and multi-aspect-ratio delivery (9:16, 1:1, 16:9).
• Basic colour and sound finishing.
• Footage organisation and template/system building.

What Success Looks Like in 6 Months

• A weekly Reels/Shorts cadence the audience recognises by style.
• A reusable project-template and caption system the next editor could plug into.
• Long-form videos cut for phone-first retention with clean Hindi + English subtitles.
• At least one strong brand/impact film shipped.
• A growing, organised footage bank with consent on file for anyone featured.
• The founder reviewing finished cuts instead of directing every edit decision.

Reel Requirement

You must submit a reel or 2–3 work samples that you cut yourself — ideally a Reel, a long-form story piece, and a brand/impact-style cut. Team work where you can't point to your specific edit doesn't count. We can't evaluate an editing hire without seeing your edits.

Who You Are (Foundational Qualities)

We hire for character first, skills second. These 8 qualities are non-negotiable for everyone at DevsLane — you must demonstrate strength in all 8 to receive an offer.

• Mission Alignment — you cut for the audience and the work, not the showreel.
• Ownership — you build the templates, the system, and the cadence from scratch; done means exported, uploaded, captioned, and confirmed.
• Resourcefulness — you make a strong video from an imperfect source.
• Empathy — you adapt the cut for the platform, the client, and the viewer; you treat people on screen as people, not subjects.
• Integrity (NON-NEGOTIABLE) — no misleading composites, no captioned lines that weren't said, no consent shortcuts.
• Communication & Collaboration — you share rough cuts early; you take notes well.
• Adaptability — short-form, long-form, brand cut — you switch without quality collapsing.
• Excellence — bad audio is a dealbreaker and you know it; a misspelled name on screen or a blown-out mix is on you, not something someone else cleans up.

What We're NOT Looking For

• Pure short-form editor — fast Reels but no patience for a 3-minute story arc.
• Pure long-form editor — beautiful documentaries but freezes on a 30-second hook.
• Wedding/event editor with no narrative range — clean cuts to music, no story instinct.
• Polish-only editor — uncomfortable with imperfect source; a shaky phone clip is often our most powerful raw material.
• Strategy-only / "creative director" candidate — wants to brief but not edit.
• Single-format editor — only one ratio, one platform, or one style.
• Embellisher — believes misleading cutaways or composites are "just video".

What We Offer

• Ownership — you'll build the video-editing function from scratch and own it.
• Proximity — work directly with the founder on a lean team, close to the real work.
• Growth — as we scale, the video function grows with the company.

Experience Required:

2–5 years of video editing experience across short-form and long-form.

Compensation Range::

INR 3,00,000 – 7,00,000 PA (based on experience and a demonstrated reel)

Working days and shifts:

Monday to Friday, 10 AM – 7 PM.

Location of posting:Dehradun (In-office)

Contact Us

Email =>[e-mail]

Website =>https://devslane.com