Senior Video Editor

Guaranteed Rate, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rate is seeking a Senior Video Editor to shape compelling stories for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other digital channels. You will collaborate with Creative Directors and the team to turn raw footage into polished edits that align with brand direction and performance goals.

You will lead editorial decisions, manage multiple projects, and maintain high-quality standards for pacing, sound design, typography, and finishing across formats and platforms.

Qualifications

• Significant professional video editing experience across social, digital, branded, advertising, or creator-led content.
• Strong editorial judgment and storytelling instincts.
• Ability to find the strongest story within raw material and shape it from concept to final cut.

Responsibilities

• Own edits from raw footage through final delivery across social, paid, brand, and digital channels.
• Find compelling stories even from loose briefs or limited direction.
• Make editing decisions with pacing, music, sound design, and visual rhythm.

Skills

Senior-level editing

Storytelling

Pacing & rhythm

Social-first storytelling

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects

Job description

Rate is one of the nation’s top retail mortgage lenders, delivering a seamless, tech-driven experience that helps customers reach their homeownership and financial goals. Founded in 2000 and based in Chicago, Rate is licensed in all 50 states and D.C. and has helped over 2 million homeowners with a wide range of loan products, competitive rates and personalized service. With 5,000+ employees across 300+ offices and 12+ subsidiaries, Rate’s Loan Officers rank among the best in the country. From purchases and refinances to tapping into equity, Rate makes financing faster, simpler and less stressful. Our technology — including Same Day Mortgage, the Rate App, FlashClose℠, MyAccount and the Language Access Program — has earned recognition from HousingWire, Scotsman Guide, NerdWallet, the Chicago Tribune and Crain’s Chicago Business. Learn more at rate.com.

Job Profile: Video Editor

Job Description Summary: Salary Range: 100k-110k

Job Description: Job Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Video Editor with strong editorial instincts, exceptional craft, and a deep understanding of social-first storytelling. You’ll work closely with Creative Directors and other members of the creative team to turn raw footage, loose concepts, and established creative direction into compelling video across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, paid media, and other digital channels. This is a hands‑on editing role for someone who can find the story, make confident creative decisions, and move quickly without sacrificing quality. Some projects will come with a clear, creative vision. Others will require you to shape the structure, pacing, sound, and visual language from the ground up. A strong portfolio and/or reel is required for consideration. We care deeply about the quality of the work itself: storytelling, editing judgment, pacing, sound, typography, and attention to detail.

Editorial & Storytelling

Own edits from raw footage through final delivery across social, paid, brand, and digital channels.

Find the strongest story within the material, even when working from a loose brief or limited direction.

Create strong openings and maintain viewer attention through pacing, structure, sound, music, and visual rhythm.

Make confident editorial decisions about what to cut, what to emphasize, and when an edit is finished.

Adapt storytelling and execution appropriately across short‑form and longer‑form formats.

Motion & Craft

Use typography, motion, transitions, graphics, sound design, and compositing to strengthen the story rather than decorate it.

Apply brand systems consistently while knowing how to push them appropriately for different audiences and channels.

Create polished motion treatments in Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Maintain a high bar for picture, sound, color, typography, and finishing.

Creative Collaboration

Partner closely with Creative Directors from concept through final execution.

Share work early, incorporate feedback quickly, and iterate without becoming overly precious about an edit.

Contribute ideas, references, editing approaches, and creative solutions rather than waiting for prescriptive direction.

Contribute editorial standards across the team and provide feedback to other editors when appropriate.

Workflow

Manage several projects at different stages while meeting tight deadlines.

Balance craft with speed and understanding when a project needs deeper refinement versus a fast, effective solution.

Maintain clean, organized project files and handoffs.

Stay current with evolving editing styles, creator culture, platform conventions, and emerging creative tools.

Required

• A strong portfolio or reel demonstrating senior‑level editing craft is required.
• Applications without work samples will not be considered.
• Significant professional video editing experience, with a body of work spanning social, digital, branded, advertising, or creator‑led content.
• Expert‑level proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Strong working proficiency in After Effects.
• Excellent instincts for story, pacing, music, sound design, typography, and visual rhythm.
• Ability to take an edit from ambiguous or loosely defined material through a finished piece.
• Strong creative judgment and attention to detail.
• Ability to work quickly across multiple projects and respond well to direct creative feedback.
• Strong understanding of social platforms and contemporary editing styles without relying on trends as a substitute for good storytelling.

Rate is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital or parental status, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy or other reason protected by law.

The company offers a comprehensive benefits program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; critical care insurance; personal accidental insurance; commuter benefits; pet insurance; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; well‑being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program); and other supplemental benefits (e.g., legal planning assistance; identity theft protection; pet insurance; wellness resources).

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At Rate Companies, we believe in empowering our people to make an impact every day. From industry‑leading mortgage solutions to award‑winning workplace culture, we’re proud to help our employees grow, collaborate, and succeed together.