Video Editor PlanetScale · USD 150k-200k/yr Workplace 10 hours ago

Content Creators; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking a Video Editor to shape how videos are made, editing YouTube videos, shorts, conference highlights, and launch films with room to experiment and adopt new tools including AI.

You’ll work closely with the Marketing team, bringing strong storytelling, pacing, and design across thumbnails, typography, and motion graphics. The role offers time and budget to explore new tools and approaches.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showing strong editing across formats (YouTube, shorts, podcasts).
• Sharp sense of pacing, structure and story; know what to keep or cut to maintain engagement.
• Equal comfort with editing, animation, and design; shape a story with visuals and expressive typography.
• Fluency in professional editing tools such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro.
• Experience using AI tools to create animations, assist editing, and push the limits of automated workflows.
• Ability to create custom scripts and leverage AI to automate transcription, thumbnail ideation, and rough edits.

Responsibilities

• Edit YouTube videos, shorts, conference talks, and launch videos with strong pacing and polish.
• Create thumbnails, title cards, typography and motion graphics to accompany videos.
• Collaborate closely with the Marketing team and iterate on feedback quickly.
• Experiment with AI-powered tools to speed up production while maintaining high quality.

Skills

Editing

Animation

Design

Premiere Pro

After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

AI tools for video

Scripting and automation

Collaboration with Marketing

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

Remotion

Job description

We're looking for a Video Editor who will help shape how videos get made at PlanetScale. You'll work with our team to edit and animate YouTube videos, social shorts, conference highlights, case studies, and launch films, with free rein to use any tool that makes them better, including ones that didn't exist six months ago.

AI is reshaping the video editing space in similar ways to how it is transforming software broadly. We're looking for someone who embraces this new world of creating, combining this with your own personal craft to make excellent video content. We give you the room, the tools, and the time to both create and experiment.

What we're looking for

• A portfolio that shows strong editing across formats. YouTube, short form edits, podcasts, etc.
• A sharp sense of pacing, structure, and story: you know what to keep, what to cut, and how to time things to maintain an engaged audience.
• Equal comfort with editing, animation, and design: you can shape a story, incorporate interesting visuals, and set clean, expressive type that reads well on any screen.
• Fluency in professional editing tools such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro.
• Experience using AI tools to create animations, assist with editing, and the curiosity to push the limits of how these can be used in a video creation workflow.
• Ability to create custom scripts and leverage AI to automate parts of your pipeline, such as transcription, thumbnail ideation, and generating rough edits of large amounts of footage.
• Work closely with our team to help shape ideas before the edit starts, and iterate on feedback quickly.

What you'll edit

• YouTube videos, from explainers to interviews, paced to hold attention start to finish.
• Shorts and vertical clips for social platforms.
• Conference talks, full-talks from our events and clips to share on socials.
• Launch videos, where timing, polish, and pacing carry the announcement.
• Thumbnails, title cards, typography, and motion graphics that go with all of the above.

How you'll work

• A combination of strong individual editing skills combined with an excitement for how AI can improve the speed and quality at which we create.
• In close collaboration with the Marketing team at PlanetScale.
• You’ll have time and budget to try new tools.

Bonus points

• Background in Software Development, or working with Engineering companies
• Experience editing tech / developer content
• A channel or account you've grown yourself
• Experience with code-driven video tools like Remotion
• A knack for creating engaging thumbnails and titles
• Sound design and audio mixing skills
  Why PlanetScale

  PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.

  At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.

  If you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

  Total Compensation and Pay Transparency

  An employee’s total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview.

  Base salary range: $150,000 - $200,000

  PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our database platform offers developers the fastest and most reliable Postgres and Vitess/MySQL databases, enabling businesses to efficiently handle data and workloads of all sizes.

  PlanetScale is backed with over $100M in venture financing from top-tier VCs including a16z, Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, and Insight Venture Partners. And we serve some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Block, Anysphere (Cursor), MyFitnessPal, Etsy, Kick, and thousands more. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn’t be higher.