Video Editor, Sr.

Wiraa; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global impact projects

Collaborative environment

Fast-growing company

Mission-driven organization

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Senior Video Editor to join its U.S. communications team. You will transform footage, interviews, and product imagery into engaging stories across social and brand channels, collaborating with a Video Producer, Cinematographer, and Motion Designer.

You will handle editing across interviews, documentaries, explainers, customer stories, and internal comms, with routine color, sound, and finishing tasks to deliver high-quality masters.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional video editing and post-production experience in various environments.
• Strong reel/portfolio showing editorial judgment, pacing, emotional range across formats.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro or equivalent.
• Experience editing interviews, documentaries, product stories, and brand communications.
• Strong instincts for story structure, performance, pacing, music, and audience engagement.
• Experience with dialogue editing, sound design, music editing, and finishing.
• Knowledge of motion graphics and VFX pipelines to brief and hand off work.
• Understanding codecs, containers, frame rates, resolutions, color spaces, and platform specs.
• Excellent organizational skills for media ingest, proxies, transcripts, and archives.
• Ability to manage multiple edits and review cycles with accuracy and timeliness.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Experience with robotics/healthcare/tech content is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Edit short- and medium-form video content for social media, web, events, and internal channels.
• Review briefs, scripts, transcripts, and footage to build clear editorial structures.
• Create selects, string-outs, assemblies, rough and final cuts with strong storytelling.
• Identify concise and emotionally credible stories from interviews and on-site footage.
• Collaborate with Video Producer on audience, deliverables, schedules, and feedback.
• Work with Cinematographer on coverage, exposure, and color intent.
• Partner with Motion Designer on animation briefs and asset integration.
• Edit dialogue, select music, build sound design, balance mixes for final delivery.
• Perform color correction and prepare reference files for internal/external finishing.
• Create and manage versions across durations, aspect ratios, captions, and platform specs.
• Incorporate feedback and maintain version history for continuity.
• Conduct technical QC across picture, sound, captions, and codecs.
• Maintain organized media, proxies, files, licenses, and archives.

Skills

Video editing

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Storytelling

Color grading

Sound design

Multi-camera editing

Tools

Adobe Audition

DaVinci Resolve

Color grading workflow

Job description

About The Company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service dedicated to serving all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Operating on four continents, Zipline makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

About The Company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service dedicated to serving all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Operating on four continents, Zipline makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. Our customers include some of the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants, and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone itself represents only 15% of the comprehensive system we have built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and seek practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are looking for individuals who think from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can achieve the impossible at record-breaking speeds.

About The Role

Zipline's communications team is responsible for shaping and sharing the company's story and impact. We develop and implement strategies and tactics to educate our target audiences about Zipline, tell compelling stories that raise awareness about our work and impact, increase acceptance and excitement for our system, and cultivate brand ambassadors. Our team members are passionate storytellers who make complex topics simple and understandable. As Zipline expands in the U.S., delivering food, medicine, retail items, and more directly to people’s homes across many states, we are seeking a Senior Video Editor. This role involves transforming footage, interviews, sound, graphics, product imagery, and other source materials into clear and engaging stories. You will edit social and brand videos, product launches, technical explainers, customer stories, interviews, events, recruiting content, and internal communications. You will work closely with a Video Producer, Cinematographer, and Motion Designer, as well as teams in Communications, Brand, Social, Marketing, engineering, and operations. This is a hands-on post-production role focused on story construction, pacing, dialogue, music, sound, routine color correction and finishing, versioning, quality control, and organized delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional video editing and post-production experience in an in-house creative team, agency, studio, production company, media organization, or similar environment.
• A strong reel and portfolio demonstrating editorial judgment, pacing, emotional range, and work across multiple formats, with roles clearly identified for each project.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro or another professional nonlinear editing system.
• Strong working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Audition, or comparable audio tools and post-production workflows from ingest through final delivery.
• Experience editing interviews, documentary or observational footage, product stories, technical explainers, social content, and brand communications.
• Strong instincts for story structure, performance, pacing, music, sound, visual rhythm, and audience engagement.
• Professional experience with dialogue editing, sound design, music editing, audio cleanup and balancing, color correction, conforming, captions, and finishing.
• Working knowledge of motion graphics and visual effects pipelines sufficient to brief, turn over, integrate, version, and quality-check work from Motion Designers or external partners.
• Strong technical knowledge of codecs, containers, frame rates, resolutions, aspect ratios, color spaces, audio specifications, captions, and platform delivery requirements.
• Excellent organizational skills across media ingest, proxies, transcripts, project files, feedback, versions, masters, and archives.
• Ability to manage multiple edits and review cycles while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain editorial choices, incorporate feedback, and work effectively with creative and technical partners.
• Ability to learn complex subject matter and preserve technical accuracy while making information accessible to broad audiences.
• Experience editing content related to robotics, autonomy, aviation, logistics, hardware, infrastructure, healthcare, or other technically complex fields is a plus.
• Experience with multicamera editing, remote or field editing, localization, archival workflows, or external finishing vendors is a plus.
• Familiarity with transcription, cleanup, search, versioning, and other AI-assisted post-production tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Edit short- and medium-form video content for social media, web, events, presentations, internal channels, and other communication needs.
• Review briefs, scripts, transcripts, footage, product assets, screen recordings, archival material, and other sources to build clear editorial structures.
• Create selects, string-outs, assemblies, rough cuts, fine cuts, and final masters with close attention to story, pacing, performance, tone, continuity, and visual rhythm.
• Identify concise and emotionally credible stories in interviews, observational footage, product demonstrations, customer experiences, events, and operational capture.
• Collaborate with the Video Producer to confirm audience, deliverables, schedules, review rounds, feedback routing, and delivery requirements.
• Work with the Cinematographer on footage assessment, coverage, continuity, exposure, color intent, and any pickup needs.
• Partner with the Motion Designer on animation briefs, timing, placeholders, turnovers, renders, revisions, and integration of final motion assets.
• Edit and clean dialogue, select and place music, build sound design, balance mixes, and prepare audio for final delivery or external mixing.
• Complete color correction and routine grading for in-house projects, and prepare organized turnovers, conforms, and reference files when external color or finishing is used.
• Create and manage versions across durations, aspect ratios, placements, captions, languages, calls to action, and platform specifications.
• Incorporate consolidated feedback, maintain clear version history, and preserve continuity across review rounds and deliverable variants.
• Perform technical quality control across picture, sound, captions, graphics, color, frame rates, codecs, aspect ratios, naming conventions, and destination requirements.
• Maintain organized media, proxies, project files, graphics, music, licenses, captions, review links, masters, and archives to ensure work remains searchable and reusable.
• Contribute to practical editing templates, project structures, export presets, naming conventions, review practices, and archive workflows that improve consistency and turnaround times.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge autonomous logistics technology with global impact.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment that values innovation and creativity.
• Exposure to a fast-growing company operating at a global scale.
• Engagement with a mission-driven organization focused on equitable access to essential goods.
• Professional growth opportunities through diverse projects and cross-functional collaboration.

Equal Opportunity

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws or our own sensibilities. We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in technology.