Video Editor

You make things watchable and you make volume possible. Half this job is cutting hero content to a very high standard. The other half - the half that matters more - is building the template and preset system that lets the team publish 5x what one editor could cut by hand. What you'll do

Cut hero content: the concepts the manager is betting on, edited to a standard that competes with full-time creators

Build and maintain the template library - hook openers, caption styles, transition packs, platform presets - so the creator can self-serve variants without you touching every file

Own the pacing, cuts, sound design, captions, and motion that turn raw footage into retention

Version every hero concept into platform-native cuts: aspect ratio, hook rewrite, length, caption style per platform

Automate what can be automated - batch captioning, auto-reframe, preset-driven exports

Maintain asset organization, file naming, and archive so nothing gets remade twice

Feed the manager honest data on what's actually taking time, so briefs stay realistic

Required qualifications

4+ years editing short-form video with proven viral output - show us the videos and the view counts

Expert in at least one professional suite (Premiere, DaVinci, After Effects) plus fast tools (CapCut Pro)

Motion graphics and sound design capability - not just cuts

Demonstrated systems thinking. You've built template/preset libraries before and can describe them

Fluent with AI editing tooling and opinionated about which are worth paying for

You understand why an edit retains - you can explain the choice behind a cut, not just make it

Machine that can render at volume without dying

Nice to have

Experience editing for a channel you also had a stake in growing

Automation/scripting experience (batch processing, API-driven workflows)

Thumbnail and cover design

Not a fit if

You need to touch every single export personally

You've only ever done client-service editing to spec

You can't explain what makes an edit retain vs. just look nice

BONUS OPPORTUNITY: Structure: 85% base / 15% variable. Base $1,400–1,600, realistic total $1,600–2,100.

Trigger Payout Team publishes 40+ assets/day sustained for a month $200 Team publishes 60+ assets/day sustained $400 Each new template pack shipped that the creator adopts $75 Quarterly: avg. retention rate across all published video improves vs. prior quarter $500