As a Video Editor, you will turn raw footage and creative ideas into engaging video content for social media, digital campaigns, websites, advertisements, and brand communication. You will work closely with creative, content, and marketing teams to create videos that are visually strong, engaging, and aligned with the purpose of each campaign.
Team
Designing
Type
Full-time
Location
Experience
1+ years
What you'll own
- Edit video content for social media, websites, presentations, ads, and brand communication
- Turn raw footage, scripts, and creative concepts into engaging visual stories
- Work on cuts, pacing, transitions, sound, colour, and overall visual flow
- Create short-form and long-form video content for different digital platforms
- Add titles, subtitles, graphics, transitions, and basic visual effects where required
- Optimise video content for different platforms, formats, durations, and aspect ratios
- Collaborate with creative, content, design, and marketing teams to understand campaign objectives
- Ensure all videos are consistent with brand guidelines and campaign objectives
- Manage multiple creative projects while meeting timelines and quality standards
- Organise project files, footage, assets, and exports to maintain an efficient creative workflow
- Stay updated with video editing, content creation, and social media trends
- Contribute creative ideas that improve the quality, engagement, and effectiveness of video content
Green flags
- Strong portfolio in video editing and digital content creation
- Understands visual storytelling, pacing, composition, colour, and sound
- Can turn raw footage or a brief into an engaging video
- Understands content creation for social media and digital platforms
- Pays attention to cuts, transitions, audio, colour, and overall consistency
- Can work within brand guidelines while bringing creative ideas to the table
- Can manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines
- Comfortable experimenting with new editing techniques and creative tools
- Has basic to intermediate knowledge of motion graphics or animation
Red flags
- Focuses only on aesthetics without considering the message or objective
- Struggles with visual storytelling, pacing, or structuring a video
- Doesn't pay attention to cuts, transitions, audio, or visual consistency
- Uncomfortable working within brand guidelines
- Struggles to manage multiple projects and deadlines
- Doesn't understand how content needs to be adapted across different platforms
- Relies heavily on templates without understanding how or why they work
- Not interested in learning new editing tools, techniques, or formats
Tools you should know
- Adobe Illustrator
- Figma (preferred)
- ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Runway, or similar AI tools
- Adobe After Effects (added advantage)
You are a fit if you think like this
- Tell Stories Through Video: Every cut, frame, sound, and transition should serve the story
- Think Creatively: Bring fresh ideas while keeping the purpose of the content in mind
- Pay Attention to Detail: Clean edits, good pacing, strong audio, and visual consistency matter
- Understand the Audience: Create content that makes sense for the platform and the people watching it
- Collaborate Effectively: Work well with strategists, designers, writers, marketers, and other creatives
- Take Ownership: Stay organised, meet deadlines, and care about the quality of the final output