Social-First Video Editor

Brand Knew • Los Angeles, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Social-First Video Editor creates short-form content for paid social channels, including TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook, and YouTube Shorts. The role focuses on finding compelling hooks and moments in long recordings, interviews, user-generated content, and raw creator footage, then turning them into concise, platform-native edits. The editor will work with imperfect inputs, produce multiple creative variations quickly, and ensure each asset meets quality and platform requirements before it goes live.

The editor collaborates with creative, performance, paid media, strategy, design, and account teams across clients. The position also involves using feedback and performance learnings to improve future edits, keeping project assets organized, and contributing ideas about hooks and social formats. As the company expands its in-house content capabilities, opportunities may arise to support content capture and production.

Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating strong short-form social editing; relevant work matters more than a specific number of years or formal training.
• Strong instincts for video openings, pacing, retention, captions, and clear storytelling.
• Ability to clip longer footage, select the best moments, and create strong edits from raw or messy inputs.
• Understanding of how creator-style content differs from polished brand video and what feels native to TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
• Experience producing multiple edit versions for testing with fast turnaround times.
• Comfort and efficiency using CapCut, Premiere Pro, or another video editor.
• Resourcefulness with basic graphics, captions, audio cleanup, and simple effects.
• Excellent attention to detail, especially spelling, captions, product and offer accuracy, and platform specifications.
• Ability to take direction, apply feedback quickly, and communicate clearly about timing or blockers.
• Organization and dependability when managing several clients, briefs, and deadlines.

Nice To Haves

• Experience creating or capturing phone-first content.
• Experience using AI-assisted editing tools.
• Experience working on performance marketing creative.
• Advanced motion graphics expertise is not required.

Responsibilities

• Edit fast, platform-native short-form videos for paid social across TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook, YouTube Shorts, and other channels.
• Identify strong hooks, sound bites, and moments in long recordings, interviews, UGC, and raw creator footage, and turn them into concise clips.
• Build effective edits from imperfect or limited inputs, such as phone footage, product shots, B-roll, stills, and existing client assets.
• Create multiple creative variations quickly, testing openings, lengths, pacing, on-screen copy, calls to action, and formats.
• Adapt content to each platform with pacing, captions, sound, overlays, and simple motion where useful.
• Collaborate with paid media, creative strategy, design, and account teams; apply briefs, feedback, and performance learnings to improve edits.
• Perform final quality checks for spelling, captions, brand and product names, offer details, audio levels, framing, safe zones, and export specifications.
• Manage edits, revisions, and deadlines across multiple clients while maintaining organization and accuracy.
• Suggest stronger hooks, new cuts, and relevant social trends or formats to test.
• Organize project files, source footage, templates, and exports so assets can be located, reused, and iterated on easily.
• Potentially support content capture and production as the company expands its in-house content capabilities.

Benefits

• Opportunity for growth in the company.
• Work alongside a slate of clients and team members.
• Fun, creative, and collaborative company culture.
• Hybrid work environment.
• Long-term disability insurance.
• Health care offering, including dental and vision.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off.
• Compensation commensurate with experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed