Video Editor

Lateral Hr Consulting; Mumbai; On-site; INR 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Ant Systemz is seeking a video editor to shape brand and campaign content in a fast-paced environment. You will cut long-form pieces, ad films, and social content, ensuring story consistency and high production value. You may also join shoots and contribute to simple on-set tasks when needed.

The role requires a showreel and 0–2 years of editing experience, with a strong eye for timing, color, and audio. Expect collaboration with the Strategist and director across multiple formats.

Qualifications

• 0–2 years editing experience in agency, production house, or freelance work.
• A showreel is required, plus at least one full piece we can watch end to end.
• Storytelling instinct with good pacing, rhythm, and musical sense.
• Detail-oriented: frame-accurate cuts, clean audio, and correct colour.
• Able to take direction and justify edits when proposing alternatives.
• Comfortable with AI-assisted post tooling as part of workflow.

Responsibilities

• Edit brand films and long-form pieces to tell the company's story.
• Create ad films and campaign cuts, including client-facing production.
• Work on social films: reels, shorts, teasers, and platform-native edits.
• Finish: colour grade, audio cleanup, titles and motion graphics in After Effects.
• Coordinate with Strategist or director to plan shot cuts and turnaround.

Skills

Storytelling

Music sense

Rhythm

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

Final Cut Pro

Adobe After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Audition

Pro Tools

Job description

About Us

Ant Systemz balances technology-driven scale with deep human creative empathy to rebuild global content pipelineshelping stories travel across languages while preserving the emotion that makes them meaningful.

What you'll actually do

Edit

• Brand films the long‑form pieces that carry the company's story
• Ad films and campaign work, including client‑facing production through CRIT™
• Social films — reels, shorts, teasers, cutdowns, platform‑native edits
• Case‑study films, event coverage from IBC and MIPCOM, founder and customer interviews, product and demo pieces

Finish

• Colour correction and grade; audio cleanup, mixing and levels
• Titles, lower thirds, transitions, end cards, motion graphics in After Effects
• Light VFX — cleanup, tracking, keying, compositing
• Export and delivery to spec, per platform, per client

Version

• One master, every version the market asks for: language versions, aspect ratios, durations, platform cuts. This is the core of how we work — made once at the top, fragmented downward
• Work with subtitled, dubbed and lip‑synced material, which changes how you cut. You'll learn this here if you haven't done it before

Work with the team

• Take a shot map or edit brief from the Strategist or the director and turn it into a cut
• Sit in on shoots when we need you there; occasionally shoot yourself
• Keep footage, projects and versions organised well enough that someone else could open your timeline and understand it

What we’re looking for

Tools — you should be strong in:

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Final Cut Pro
• Adobe After Effects — motion graphics and compositing, not just titles

Tools — you should understand:

• 3D — Blender, Cinema 4D, or equivalent. Enough to build or drop in a simple 3D element, understand cameras and lighting, and integrate it into a live‑action cut. We’ll teach you the rest
• DaVinci Resolve for grade
• Audio: Audition, Pro Tools, or equivalent — enough to make dialogue sit properly

And:

• 0–2 years editing. Agency, production house, in‑house, freelance or your own channel — we care about the cuts, not the letterhead
• A showreel is required, plus at least one full piece we can watch end to end. A reel proves you can cut a montage; a full film proves you can hold a story
• Storytelling instinct: pacing, rhythm, when to hold a shot and when to get out of it. Music sense
• Detail obsession. Frame‑accurate cuts, clean audio, correct colour, no artefacts, right export settings. “Good enough” is not in use on these premises
• You can take direction and revisions without ego, and you can also say “I tried it, here’s why the other version is better”
• Comfortable with AI‑assisted post tooling as part of the workflow — we build these tools, and you’ll be one of the first people using them

Nice to have:

camera and lighting experience; sound design; Photoshop and Illustrator; experience with dubbed or subtitled content; a second Indian language.

What you’ll be doing well by month three

• You can take a social edit from rushes to delivered in a day
• Your project files and folder structure are clean enough for someone else to pick up
• You've cut at least one brand or ad film that we're happy to put in front of clients
• You've used a 3D element in a real piece of work