Video Editor

CDS Visuals; Fort Mill (SC); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401k

Paid time off

Equipment provided

Job summary

CDS Visuals is seeking a Video Editor in Fort Mill, SC (hybrid). You will cut brand films, jobsite content, testimonials, and tradeshow footage across the client roster, building the branded motion graphics layer in After Effects.

The role leads toward Lead Editor as you prove your ability to mentor others and manage reviews. The position requires 2–4 years of pro editing, strong Premiere Pro and After Effects skills, and the ability to craft a story from unscripted footage.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years editing professionally with a reel of client work.
• Strong Premiere Pro and fluency in After Effects; build/modify motion graphics templates.

Responsibilities

• Cut brand films and client content across the roster, fast and on spec.
• Build and maintain branded motion graphics in After Effects.
• Cull, edit and export stills; manage full post pipeline including captions and delivery.

Skills

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Lightroom

Storytelling from interviews

Color correction

Audio cleanup

Tools

Motion graphics templates

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

Tactical video content for blue-collar businesses. That's what we make. Jobsite footage, customer testimonials, brand films, product walkarounds, recruiting and training content, tradeshow coverage — shot on site, in PPE, for construction, manufacturing and equipment dealers. Real jobs. Real crews. Real results.

We're looking for a Video Editor to cut that work, and to grow into leading the editors who cut it alongside you.

The trades deserve better marketing, plain and simple. This is the seat where a lot of that marketing gets made.

The job

Our process has six steps: Strategy, Production, Post Production, Feedback, Distribute, Win Work. You own step three. The crew shows up where the work happens and captures it. You turn it into video that wins work and fills crews.

Day to day, this is an editing seat. You'll cut across our full client roster rather than a fixed set of accounts: long‑form pieces, short‑form cut‑downs, social posts sized and captioned for every platform, and the still set that ships alongside. The work moves fast and the bar doesn't drop. The footage comes from jobsites, shop floors and show floors. Owners and crews on camera. Machines doing the work. No studio.

You report directly to the Head of Post Production and work alongside him daily.

Where it goes

This role is on a defined path to Lead Editor. Over your first six months, the execution stays the core of the job while you take on review and feedback: watching other editors' cuts, learning to give notes that make a cut better rather than different, and running first‑pass review on cuts across the team. If that goes well, you step into the lead seat, with a team of editors reporting to you on their work. The pace is set by how fast you show you can carry it.

What you'll do

• Cut brand films, jobsite content, testimonials, walkarounds, recruiting and training pieces, and tradeshow hype cuts across our full client roster. Fast, to spec, on schedule.
• Find the story in unscripted interview footage. Pull the soundbites, build the throughline, make it land.
• Build and maintain the branded motion graphics layer in After Effects: end cards, lower thirds, animated overlays, and the mogrt templates the team works from.
• Cull, edit and export the still set from each shoot in Lightroom, matched to the look of the footage.
• Run the full post pipeline: ingest and organization, color and audio cleanup, captions, and delivery in every size a client's channels need.
• Keep each client's media library complete. Every final, every select, every photo tagged, searchable, and theirs to keep.
• Learn our review process from the inside: sit in on reviews, write notes alongside the Head of Post, then take on first‑pass review as you earn it.
• Put AI‑assisted tools to work where they save real time, and build the templates that stop us rebuilding the same thing every month.

What we're looking for

You'll need

• 2–4 years editing professionally, with a reel of finished client work.
• Strong Premiere Pro and real fluency in After Effects. You'll build and modify motion graphics templates, animate titles and lower thirds, and handle cleanup: tracking, masking, screen replacements, rotoscoping when it comes up.
• Basic photo editing in Lightroom. Every package includes a still set.
• Ability to build a story from unscripted interview footage. This is what we screen hardest for.
• Solid fundamentals in audio cleanup, color correction, and delivery specs across formats.
• The organization to carry multiple projects at once, across clients, without a producer chasing you.

How you work

• Fast. Turnarounds are tight and the queue is always full. You keep cuts moving and don't let a project sit.
• Quality at speed. Fast never means sloppy. Every delivery goes out clean, on spec, and true to the client's look.
• Agile. Priorities shift across clients day to day, footage comes back short, a client reverses after approval. You move with it without losing the thread on anything else.
• Flexible. A brand film in the morning, a batch of shorts after lunch, a still set before you log off. Whatever's in the queue, you cut it.
• A strong communicator. Clear in writing and direct in conversation, both ways. Briefs, review notes and client updates are most of how this job gets done, and giving notes to other editors is where this role is headed.
• Always learning. You take coaching well, pick up new tools quickly, and adapt how you work as the business changes. Eager to grow into more, not waiting to be told.
• Discreet with client footage, information, and anything you see on a jobsite.

Your setup

• Local to our Fort Mill office. This is a hybrid role with regular days in the office, and some weeks you'll need to be in on short notice. We're looking for someone within about a 40‑minute drive: Fort Mill, Rock Hill, the Charlotte metro, and the surrounding area.
• High‑speed internet at home, fiber strongly preferred. You'll be editing directly off cloud storage, so real bandwidth is a working requirement, not a convenience.
• A proper video‑call setup: camera on, quiet space, presentable background, working mic. You'll be on client calls and team meetings regularly, and you represent CDS on them.

Nice to haves

• Experience giving feedback to other editors, even informally.
• Hands‑on use of AI‑assisted editing tools: transcript‑based assembly, auto‑captioning, batch automation.
• Time around construction, manufacturing or heavy equipment, in any capacity.
• Deeper motion design: 3D, Cinema 4D or Blender, expressions and rigging.

Location: Hybrid in Fort Mill, SC, just south of Charlotte. You'll have a desk in our office and we expect you in it regularly, especially in your first few months.

Compensation: $40,000–$50,000 base, depending on experience, plus health, vision, dental, 401k benefits and paid time off. We supply everything you need to work: workstation, monitor, Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve Studio. You don't bring your own licenses or gear here.

Growth: A defined six‑month track to Lead Editor, the senior seat in post production under the Head of Post Production. We're a small crew growing fast, and the person in this seat has real say in how post runs here.

A note on the test edit. Candidates who move forward get a paid test edit: real client footage, three days, one main video and one social short cut from it. We pay a flat $150 on delivery, whether or not you get the job. The footage stays confidential, and the cut is for evaluation only. It won't be published or delivered to the client.

CDS Visuals is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.