Video Editor & Motion Designer — Elevate Brand Stories

Persistent Systems; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

401(k) with company match

Flexible spending accounts

Fitness membership reimbursement

Tuition assistance

Mental health benefits

Pet discounts

Job summary

Persistent Systems in New York, NY is seeking an in-house Video Editor & Motion Designer to turn raw footage into stories that move the business forward. You will own the full post-production path, from ingesting terabytes of media to cutting finished pieces with polished motion graphics.

You’ll keep the media library clean, searchable, and shaped to fit the company’s goals and brand, while delivering content across brand films, social clips, product videos, and internal communications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional video editing experience in an agency setting.
• A portfolio or reel showing strong storytelling and motion graphics work.
• Expert skills in Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve (Final Cut Pro also welcome).
• Strong motion graphics skills in Adobe After Effects.
• Working knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator for preparing graphics and stills.
• Proven experience organizing and archiving large media libraries, including backup workflows, naming conventions and metadata
• Comfort working with high volumes of footage, multiple codecs and camera formats, and proxy workflows
• A sharp eye for pacing, composition, typography and brand consistency
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing several projects at once and delivering on quick turnarounds

Responsibilities

• Review large volumes of raw footage, often terabytes per project, and pull the moments that matter
• Build clear, compelling narratives that match the brief, audience and business goal
• Edit content across formats: brand films, social clips, product videos, internal communications and event recaps
• Deliver finished pieces sized and formatted for each platform, from widescreen to vertical
• Handle color correction and basic audio clean-up so every piece is ready to publish
• Design and animate titles, lower thirds, transitions, logo animations and on-screen graphics
• Create animated explainers and data visuals that make complex ideas easy to follow
• Build reusable motion templates that keep our brand consistent and speed up future edits
• Ingest, back up and verify all incoming photo and video media
• Maintain a consistent folder structure, file-naming convention and metadata tagging system
• Archive completed projects and source media, so they are safe, searchable and easy to restore
• Manage storage across drives, servers and cloud platforms, and flag capacity needs early
• Keep a reusable library of b-roll, stills, music and graphics the whole team can draw from
• Independent: You can take a brief and run with it, managing your own time and priorities with little oversight
• Open to feedback: You welcome notes, ask good questions and turn revisions around quickly without losing the heart of the story
• A true teammate: You collaborate easily with marketing, creative, product and leadership, and you share your ideas openly
• Organized by nature: You treat the archive as seriously as the edit, because good organization saves everyone time
• Proactive: You spot opportunities to repurpose existing footage and suggest new content ideas

Skills

Storytelling

Motion graphics

Time management

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Tools

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Illustrator

Frame.io

Iconik

Adobe Bridge

Job description

Persistent Systems in New York, NY is seeking an in-house Video Editor & Motion Designer to turn raw footage into stories that move the business forward. You will own the full post-production path, from ingesting terabytes of media to cutting finished pieces with polished motion graphics.

You’ll keep the media library clean, searchable, and shaped to fit the company’s goals and brand, while delivering content across brand films, social clips, product videos, and internal communications.