Senior Video Editor

Qinary; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

In-person role

Job summary

Qinary is hiring a Senior Video Editor in Scottsdale. This in-person role requires shaping short- and long-form videos for high-profile clients across platforms, with a focus on taste, fast turnaround, and brand consistency.

You will own flagship brands, turn long-form content into short-form assets, and craft hooks, finishes, and pacing that drive results. Expect a clear runway toward leadership in the video team and a collaborative, fast-paced studio environment.

Qualifications

• Three+ years editing social video, agency or in-house experience.
• Proof of work showing performance, not just a reel.
• Fluency in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve; strong short-form CapCut editing.

Responsibilities

• Cut short vertical content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and LinkedIn, at volume and quality.
• Edit long-form podcast episodes and YouTube pieces end to end.
• Pull clips from long-form content and identify the key moment.
• Handle colour, audio, captions, motion titles and sound design on your own work.
• Cut for each platform on its own terms, not one file five ways.
• Work with account managers to ensure edits support strategy.
• Organise footage, projects and exports so others can find them easily.
• Monitor platform performance and bring ideas back to improve:**

Skills

Three+ years editing social video

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

CapCut

Tools

After Effects

Descript

Job description

Qinary | Where Personal Brands Become Market Forces

Scottsdale, Arizona | Full time, in person, Monday to Friday | W-2 with health insurance and benefits | [COMP BAND - Buck to confirm before posting. Suggested $60,000 to $80,000 depending on strength.]

Senior Video Editor

Qinary | Where Personal Brands Become Market Forces

Scottsdale, Arizona | Full time, in person, Monday to Friday | W-2 with health insurance and benefits | [COMP BAND - Buck to confirm before posting. Suggested $60,000 to $80,000 depending on strength.]

The short version

We are the personal brand agency. Founders, executives and business owners come to us when they are ready to stop being the best-kept secret in their industry, and we build the brand that fixes it. Thirty-five of them right now, from Dubai to California.

Almost all of that brand ships as video. Which means it ships through an editor.

We are hiring one. Not a button-pusher working a ticket queue — an editor with real taste and real receipts, who understands social at the level of the people actually winning at it. If you watch what GaryVee's team or Hormozi's team puts out and instinctively know why a particular cut lands, that is the instinct we are hiring.

Who we are, and why that matters to you

Qinary is a full-service personal branding and marketing agency in Scottsdale. We run social, PR, podcasts and AI-built content at real volume for high-profile clients across a dozen markets — Dubai, New York, Dallas, Tampa, San Diego, Denver, Portland, Honolulu, Phoenix and Scottsdale.

The work is not corporate filler. Our clients are entrepreneurs building genuine authority — the kind of people whose content gets screenshotted, quoted and sent to a friend. When one of their videos hits, it moves their business: inbound leads, speaking invitations, deals. You will be able to point at things you cut and say that reached a quarter of a million people and it made that person's phone ring.

We also run on agentic AI, well past a chatbot open in another tab. That matters for an editor because it means the grunt work is increasingly handled and your time goes where taste actually lives — the cut, the pacing, the hook, the call.

Why this role exists

Our video is spread across several editors and it is growing faster than that setup can hold. We need one person with the taste and the speed to raise the floor on everything that leaves the building, and the judgement to be trusted with our biggest brands without being checked.

This is a seat with real runway. The person who is excellent here becomes the one setting the standard for every editor who follows — owning the style guides, reviewing other people's cuts, and shaping how the agency's video looks. We would rather grow that person than hire them later.

What you would own

The flagship brands. The clients whose content carries the most weight. Their short-form, their long-form, and the standard everything else gets measured against.

Turning long into short. A forty-five minute podcast becomes a week of clips, each one cut for how its platform actually behaves. Finding the moment inside the hour is the whole skill, and it is most of this job.

The hook. First frame, first second, first line. You own the part that decides whether the other fifty-eight seconds get watched at all, and you have a real point of view about it.

The finish. Colour, audio, captions, motion titles, sound design. The difference between something that reads as amateur and something that reads as authority, on a phone screen, muted, in a thumb-scroll.

The standard. As you grow into the seat: the style guides, the review pass on other editors' work, and the taste that keeps thirty-five brands each looking like themselves and none of them looking cheap.

What you would actually do

• Cut short vertical content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and LinkedIn, at volume, without the quality sliding.
• Cut long-form podcast episodes and YouTube pieces end to end.
• Pull the clips out of long-form and know which moment is the one.
• Handle colour, audio, captioning, motion titles and sound design on your own work.
• Cut for each platform on its own terms, rather than exporting one file five ways.
• Work directly with the account managers who own the client relationships, so the edit serves the strategy.
• Keep footage, projects and exports organised well enough that anyone can find anything.
• Watch what is actually landing across platforms and bring ideas back, instead of only working the brief.
• Hit deadlines across several brands at once without being chased.

What we need from you

• Three or more years editing social video, at an agency, in-house, or for creators. What matters more than the number is what you have shipped.
• Proof, not just a reel. You can point at work that performed and tell us why. See the application section — this is the part we care most about.
• Real fluency in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, plus fast clean short-form work in CapCut or similar. Long-form and vertical both.
• A genuine feel for social. You know what makes someone stop scrolling and stay, and why a piece that works on TikTok dies on LinkedIn. You can articulate it, not just sense it.
• Fluent with AI editing tools, and clear-eyed about them. Transcript-based editing and auto-captioning (Descript or similar), pulling shorts from long episodes (Opus Clip or similar), and the AI features now inside Premiere. You use them to move faster and you know exactly where not to trust them.
• Speed with taste. Volume is real here. So is the standard. We need both, and we will ask how you protect quality when the queue is full.
• Ownership. You take a brand, you carry it, and it does not need chasing.
• Based in the Scottsdale area or willing to relocate. This is an in-person role, five days a week.

What earns a second look

• Motion graphics in After Effects.
• Multi-camera podcast editing.
• Your own content or audience, so you know the work from the creator side too.
• Experience cutting for a founder or executive with a real following.
• Sound design that goes past dropping a track under the cut.
• You have built something with AI beyond prompting — an automation, a workflow, anything you wired together yourself.

The tools you would work with

Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, CapCut, Descript, the current crop of AI editing tools, Frame.io for review, ClickUp for the pipeline, and a properly stocked Scottsdale studio behind it — Sony and Canon bodies, Aputure lighting, Rode and RODECaster audio.

The details

• Full time, in person, Monday through Friday, at our Scottsdale office and studio. This is not hybrid and it is not remote.
• W-2, with health insurance and benefits.
• [COMP BAND - confirm before posting.]
• Real growth: this seat leads toward senior and lead editor, owning the standard across the agency's video.

What we are actually looking for

Someone with taste who can defend it. Someone who watches a cut back and knows precisely why it is or is not working, and can say so out loud. Someone who wants to build a body of work behind names people follow, rather than fill a queue.

If that is you, this is a career-making seat and we will treat it like one.

Qinary is an equal opportunity employer. We hire on talent. If you are strong at the core of this and unsure about a line or two above, apply anyway and tell us. We would rather watch your work than screen you out on a checklist.

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