Remote Video Editor & Motion Designer for YouTube News

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ProPublica is seeking a video editor and motion designer to own the creative and technical postproduction for YouTube videos, collaborating with reporters and editors to present investigations for a broad audience.

As part of a new YouTube team within the audience group, you will help shape the visual language, establish formats, and build efficient workflows while maintaining strict editorial standards and ethics.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of professional video editing and motion design experience in a newsroom, media organization or production studio.
• High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, with expert proficiency in both After Effects and Premiere Pro.
• A portfolio that highlights videos you have edited specifically for YouTube, including hosted, vlog-style and/or explainer formats.
• Experience building tension in hooks, controlling pacing and navigating tonal shifts in video storytelling.
• You are energized by the opportunity of being part of a founding team and creating something from scratch - establishing formats, defining visual languages and building efficient workflows.
• You thrive while collaborating, seeking input from others and iterating your work based on feedback.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with producers to create videos - and related promo cuts - that are grounded in ethical journalistic principles, standards and practices.
• Use editorial judgment to translate investigations and video scripts with the sensitivity, care and appropriate tone they require.
• Own the creative and technical postproduction for videos - editing, motion graphic design and animation, color grading and sound design - ensuring projects are shaped and paced for a YouTube-first audience.
• Own end-to-end motion design workflows, including creating storyboards, animatics and the polished final products for videos.
• Establish and maintain a central motion design library of MOGRTs, templates, toolkits and other reusable visual assets for teamwide use.
• Maintain ProPublica’s brand standards and overall design system, collaborating with the design and graphics teams, among others, to ensure visual cohesiveness in videos.
• Communicate proactively with the team regarding project status and timelines and directly collaborate with producers on scoping and delivering videos on schedule.
• Manage multiple projects in various stages of production, sometimes meeting tight deadlines.

Skills

Video editing

Motion design

Adobe After Effects

Premiere Pro

YouTube storytelling

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Google Workspace

Job description

ProPublica is seeking a video editor and motion designer to own the creative and technical postproduction for YouTube videos, collaborating with reporters and editors to present investigations for a broad audience.

As part of a new YouTube team within the audience group, you will help shape the visual language, establish formats, and build efficient workflows while maintaining strict editorial standards and ethics.