Video Editor, Remote Job

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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

The pay range for this role is:

15,000 - 55,000 USD per year (Remote)

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