Social Media Content Views Editor / Video Editor

twentysix; New York (NY); On-site; USD 46,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

VaynerMedia is seeking a German Social Media Content Views Editor / Video Editor for a 12-month FTC, with fluent German and English. You will craft engaging content, edit for social platforms, and optimize performance across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.

The role demands strong editing skills, collaboration, and initiative. The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of creative experience, expertise in Premiere Pro/After Effects/Photoshop, and a passion for varied media formats.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years professional creative experience across social media and digital formats.
• Proven video editor experience in advertising, digital media, or related fields.
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop.
• Extraordinary content creation skills from concept to delivery.
• Responsible, accountable, self-starter who demonstrates initiative.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and with teams.
• Excellent written and verbal English and German.

Responsibilities

• Create content that makes impactful connections with consumers, measured by high attention metrics (views, likes, comments).
• Edit and assemble raw footage into polished final videos for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube with a performance-creative mindset.
• Tune performance and optimize content to scale success across platforms.
• Stay updated on platform algorithms, formats, trends, and editing techniques to keep content fresh.
• Contribute ideas in ideation sessions and drive execution through testing and optimization.
• Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional departments on rapid timelines.
• Attend brainstorms and meetings, shaping performance-driven strategy.
• Mentor Creators, and possibly Art Directors and Copywriters, on best practices and execution.

Skills

Content creation

Cross-functional collaboration

Bilingual English & German

Self-starter

Platform optimization

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Job description

**German Social Media Content Views Editor / Video Editor **

**This role is a 12 months FTC initially **

**Fluent German & English is essential **

**We’re VaynerMedia! **We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few.

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

Here’s where you come in…

• Create content that makes impactful connections with consumers, measured by high attention metrics (views, likes, comments, etc).
• Serve as an algorithm-fluent editor with deep expertise in hooks, pacing, structure, and retention across social platforms — the primary owner of DJ-ing, remixing, and optimizing content to drive scalable performance.
• Principally accountable for performance tuning and platform success, turning good content into scalable content through continuous optimization and creative iteration.
• Edit and assemble raw footage into polished final videos, ensuring assets are optimized natively for platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube — with a performance-creative mindset, not post-production only.
• Stay up to date with platform algorithms, emerging formats, creator trends, and editing techniques to keep content fresh, relevant, and competitive in feeds.
• Bring ideas to the table and participate in ideation, while recognizing that the core value of the role is making the work work through execution, testing, and optimization.
• Collaborate effectively with your teammates and cross functional departments on rapid fire requests and tight timelines.
• Attend creative brainstorms, kickoffs, and team meetings, contributing meaningful ideas and helping shape performance-driven strategy.
• Mentor Creators, and even in some cases Art Directors and Copywriters, on your team and across the agency; following the leadership of your A/CD, you help guide and educate on best practices, ideating, execution, and performance optimization.

Here’s where you come in…

Experience / Knowledge Required:

• 3 to 5 years professional creative experience, with a demonstrable passion for making creative content on a spectrum of media platforms - social, streaming, AR, music, film, interactive, etc.
• Proven experience as a video editor, preferably in advertising, digital media, or a related field.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop.
• Extraordinary content creation skills, capable of execution from start to finish, with a passion for various kinds of creative outlets including video and motion design
• Responsible, accountable, and self starter who demonstrates initiative
• Ability to collaborate with the individuals of an organization, fostering strong cross-functional teamwork and positive results.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and German.

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.

Candidates must be authorized to work in Germany.