Senior Video Editor

Overview

Multi-Format Video Editing

• Edit
• talking head and interview-style videos
• — tightening pacing, removing dead air, adding energy, and making the subject compelling even when the delivery wasn't perfect.
• Edit
• static/slideshow-style videos
• — bringing motion, energy, and visual rhythm to still assets, product imagery, and graphic-driven content.
• Edit
• dynamic moving footage
• — product videos, lifestyle content, behind-the-scenes, and campaign films with cinematic quality.
• Edit
• short-form content
• (Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts) with an obsessive understanding of platform-specific hooks, pacing, and retention patterns.
• Edit
• long-form content
• (YouTube, brand documentaries, educational series) with narrative structure and audience retention in mind.
• Edit
• paid ad creatives
• across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and Google — understanding the difference between organic and performance content.

Footage Salvage & Problem Solving

• Transform suboptimal, imperfect, or difficult raw footage into polished, professional final content — this is not optional, this is the job.
• Apply
• AI-assisted upscaling, stabilisation, and noise reduction
• tools to recover compromised footage.
• Clean up and repair audio — removing background noise, echo, breath, and inconsistencies using professional audio tools.
• Use
• colour correction and grading
• to fix exposure issues, match inconsistent shots, and elevate the visual quality of raw footage to professional standard.
• Reframe, crop, and recompose shots creatively to fix framing and composition issues in post.

Colour Grading

• Grade footage to create consistent, on-brand visual language across all content.
• Match shots within a sequence for colour, exposure, and skin tone consistency.
• Apply creative grades appropriate to content type — clean and clinical for healthcare content, warm and aspirational for lifestyle, bold and punchy for ads.

Sound Design & Audio

• Select, edit, and mix background music, sound effects, and voiceovers.
• Understand music licensing and use royalty-free libraries appropriately (Epidemic Sound, Artist, etc.).
• Mix audio to broadcast-standard levels for platform delivery.
• Enhance voiceover and dialogue quality using tools like Adobe Audition or Adobe Podcast AI.

Motion Graphics & Visual Enhancements

• Add captions, subtitles, and lower thirds — styled, on-brand, and timed with precision.
• Create and integrate basic-to-intermediate motion graphics and animated text in After Effects.
• Add transitions, effects, and visual elements that enhance — not distract from — the content.
• Build reusable motion graphic templates the team can use for consistent branded content.

Trend Awareness & Viral Optimisation

• Stay obsessively current with video trends across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging platforms.
• Apply trending audio, pacing techniques, and format structures where appropriate to brand content.
• Understand the anatomy of a viral video — the hook, the loop, the payoff — and engineer it intentionally.
• Analyse performance data from published content and apply learnings to future edits.

Workflow & Delivery

• Manage your own editing queue, file naming, folder structure, and project organisation with zero prompting.
• Deliver exports in correct formats, resolutions, and aspect ratios for each platform (1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9).
• Maintain a clean, organised media library and archive system.
• Collaborate with the Marketing Manager and Graphic Designer to ensure video content is visually consistent with broader brand identity.

The Show Reel We Need to See

• Your portfolio is your entire application.
• We will watch your work before we read your CV.
• Bonus points for:
• ✅ A before/after reel showing raw vs. finished footage — this alone can get you the interview.
• ✅ Content that has actually performed (views, engagement stats — show us the numbers).
• ✅ Work in the healthcare, wellness, supplements, or FMCG space.
• ✅ Examples of paid ad creative edits.
• You will not be considered if:
• ❌ Your portfolio contains only one style or format of video.
• ❌ Your portfolio has no short-form content.
• ❌ You cannot show variety across content types.
• On AI Tools — The Same Rule Applies Here:
• AI editing tools are
• welcome and encouraged
• — when used to enhance genuine skill.
• ✅ Using Topaz to stabilise shaky footage —
• smart editing.
• ✅ Using Runway to remove a background cleanly —
• efficient workflow.
• ✅ Using Descript to speed up rough cut assembly —
• intelligent process.
• ✅ Using AI audio tools to clean up a bad recording —
• exactly what we want.
• What we don't want:
• ❌ Fully AI-generated video content submitted as edited work.
• ❌ Reliance on AI to compensate for a lack of actual editing craft.
• ❌ AI tools used as a shortcut that the editor cannot explain or replicate manually.