Editor

Socket.dev; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Socket.dev in Los Angeles seeks an Editor to craft social-first videos for Dream Lab and Luma, shaping hooks, pace, and narrative across TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

You will turn raw footage into tutorials, demos, and longer-form pieces, build motion graphics, and adapt content based on performance data. A portfolio and 3+ years of editing are required.

Qualifications

• A portfolio is required and is the most important thing you will share with us.
• 3+ years of professional editing focused on social-first content, digital storytelling, entertainment, or creative marketing.
• Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects and Photoshop.
• Motion graphics you built yourself, including text and logo animation inside an edit.
• A real point of view and passion for what makes a social edit work: hooks, pacing, content pillars, and how viewership behaves differently on each platform.
• Command of pacing, structure, sound design, music, captions, and color correction, plus working knowledge of codecs, frame rates, and post workflows.
• Comfort with longer-form and narrative work. If you have cut scripted material, show us the piece and tell us what you cut.
• Self-starter habits: you can take footage to final delivery with light oversight, and you take notes enthusiastically

Responsibilities

• Cut and publish social video for Dream Lab and Luma across TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, vertical and horizontal, at the team’s target cadence.
• Find the hook, story, and structure inside raw footage from Dream Lab shoots, workshops, creator sessions, and partner projects.
• Turn Luma product moments into tutorials and demos that make a complicated creative workflow look easy.
• Be enthusiastic about trying out the tool and knowing what the team is up to.
• Build motion graphics into the video components AND text and logo animation that belong to the piece rather than a preset dropped on top.
• Cut longer-form work: YouTube series episodes, project breakdowns, interviews and profiles of Dream Lab's team, creators, and partners, and original scripted or narrative pieces from assembly through picture lock.
• Version every piece for where it lands: cutdowns, teasers, trailers, aspect ratios, runtimes, captions, sound design, color.
• Read the performance data after a piece publishes and change the next hook, format, or opening because of it.
• Keep footage, project files, graphics, music, and exports organized so the next edit starts fast instead of starting over.
• Immerse & Diagnose: Learn the footage library, content pillars, brand guidelines, and how Luma and Dream Lab show up online. Start shipping social cuts in week one and work up to the daily cadence.
• Ship & Validate: Hold the cadence. Start using performance data to suggest changes in hooks and formats.
• Scale & Systemize: Build templates, graphics, and project structure that let one shoot become many pieces, and push the team toward two to three published pieces a day across formats.
• Nice to Have: CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, Avid, or alongside Premiere.

Skills

Portfolio

3+ years editing

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Motion graphics

Hooks pacing

Pacing and color

Long-form/narrative

Self-starter

Tools

CapCut

DaVinci Resolve

Avid

Premiere Pro

Job description

Editor

Los Angeles (Dream Lab)

You will own how Dream Lab and Luma show up on the screens people actually watch. The social optimized cut. The behind-the-scenes reel from a shoot. The tutorial that makes a hard creative workflow look obvious.

This role is for an editor who understands what people watch online and knows how to build a hook, find the story, and control the pace to match current trends. It's also for an editor who can shift gears when the material calls for it: from social-first content to original scripted pieces, where narrative instinct, performance, and scene construction matter just as much as the hook.

You'll turn raw footage, behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, tutorials, and original shorts into compelling platform-native content. You'll cut original narrative pieces from assembly to final delivery. You'll work across various formats and aspect ratios, using editing, sound design, motion graphics, captions, and platform-specific storytelling to spotlight our team and collaborators, showcase what our technology can do, and strengthen our online presence.

What You'll Own

• Cut and publish social video for Dream Lab and Luma across TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, vertical and horizontal, at the team’s target cadence.

• Find the hook, story, and structure inside raw footage from Dream Lab shoots, workshops, creator sessions, and partner projects.

• Turn Luma product moments (Ray3.2, UNI-1.1, Luma Agents) into tutorials and demos that make a complicated creative workflow look easy.

• Be enthusiastic about trying out the tool and knowing what the team is up to.

• Build motion graphics into the video components AND text and logo animation that belong to the piece rather than a preset dropped on top.

• Cut longer-form work: YouTube series episodes, project breakdowns, interviews and profiles of Dream Lab's team, creators, and partners, and original scripted or narrative pieces from assembly through picture lock.

• Version every piece for where it lands: cutdowns, teasers, trailers, aspect ratios, runtimes, captions, sound design, color.

• Read the performance data after a piece publishes and change the next hook, format, or opening because of it.

• Keep footage, project files, graphics, music, and exports organized so the next edit starts fast instead of starting over.

First 90 Days

One way the first 90 could unfold.

• Days 1-30, Immerse & Diagnose. Learn the footage library, the content pillars, brand guidelines, and how Luma and Dream Lab show up online. Start shipping social cuts in week one and work up to the daily cadence.

• Days 30-60, Ship & Validate. Hold the cadence. Start using performance data to suggest for changes in hooks and formats

• Days 60-90, Scale & Systemize. Build the templates, graphics, and project structure that let one shoot become many pieces, and help push the team toward two to three published pieces a day across formats.

What You Bring

• A portfolio is required and is the most important thing you will share with us.

• 3+ years of professional editing focused on social-first content, digital storytelling, entertainment, or creative marketing.

• Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects and Photoshop.

• Motion graphics you built yourself, including text and logo animation inside an edit.

• A real point of view and passion for what makes a social edit work: hooks, pacing, content pillars, and how viewership behaves differently on each platform.

• Command of pacing, structure, sound design, music, captions, and color correction, plus working knowledge of codecs, frame rates, and post workflows.

• Comfort with longer-form and narrative work. If you have cut scripted material, show us the piece and tell us what you cut.

• Self-starter habits: you can take footage to final delivery with light oversight, and you take notes enthusiastically

Nice to Have

• CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, Avid, or alongside Premiere.

• Motion graphics templates you built for other people to reuse.

• A channel, page, or account of your own that you cut and grew.

• Genuine passion in AI, filmmaking, and where the two meet.