Social Editor
About The Position
SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company. SN Studios in Irvine is where our content creators shoot demo content for YouTube and social. They test product past the point of reason and film what happens. Blenders against frozen everything. Vacuums against messes nobody should make on purpose. Grills doing indoors what grills are not supposed to do indoors. Then the cards come to you. The job is to take what we shot and make people stop scrolling. You are not waiting on a locked script and a timecoded paper cut. We hand you demo footage and you come back with options. Three hooks. Two structures. A sixty and a fifteen. A version leading with the bowling ball and a version saving it. You bring the cuts, we watch them, and somebody in the room says heck yeah. That is the bar. Heck yeah, out loud, in the room. This role sits between production and post, which is why we call it the pre-editor. You have real creative authority over how the story gets told. Nobody hands you the answer. You find it in the footage and you argue for it.
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years cutting social video. Brand, agency, creator, or your own channel.
- A reel proving you hold attention. Send the videos performing, and tell us why they did.
- Proficiency in Premiere or Resolve, plus After Effects.
- Speed: Footage on Monday, options on Wednesday, live by Friday.
- Ability to deliver volume without a drop in quality.
- Producer instincts: Spot the story in the footage and pitch it, rather than waiting to be told.
- A point of view you will defend, and the grace to lose the argument and cut it the other way.
- Fluency in what makes people stop, save, and send.
Nice To Haves
- Bonus for real sound design chops.
Responsibilities
- Build hooks landing before somebody's thumb finishes moving. No logo, no wind up, no setup shot.
- Cut multiple hooks off one shoot and let them compete.
- Find the frame nobody noticed on set.
- Tell the story the way social tells it. Problem, tension, proof, payoff, all inside a minute.
- Structure for the platform. A YouTube cut and a TikTok cut are different films, not different crops.
- Cut for the sound off and the sound on. Both have to work.
- Protect the demo. The moment the product does the impossible thing is the moment everything else serves.
- Edit using Premiere or Resolve at speed. Maintain clean projects, sane organization, and ensure nothing is lost.
- Utilize sound design to carry narrative weight.
- Employ motion, type, and captions for narrative work, not just decoration.
- Achieve sharp pace, rhythm, and music selection to hold viewer attention.
- Deliver every ratio and length off one edit: Sixty, thirty, fifteen, six, vertical, square, wide.
- Live on TikTok, Reels, and YouTube. Know what is working this month and why.
- Steal structure, never style. Aim for our own look running on formats proven to hold attention.
- Call the trends worth chasing and the ones worth skipping.
- Bring references to the room.
- Read retention curves to find the second people left.
- Recut and repost underperforming videos.
- Test hooks head to head and let the numbers settle it.
Benefits
- medical insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- employee stock purchase program
- life insurance
- AD&D
- short-term disability insurance
- long-term disability insurance
- generous paid time off
- company holidays
- parental leave
- identity theft protection
- pet insurance
- pre-paid legal insurance
- back-up child and eldercare days
- product discounts
- referral bonus program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
