Senior Video Editor

About Phoenix

Role overview

What you'll do

• Own and evolve editing style, visual storytelling, and post-production standards across both brands.
• Lead, coach, and mentor editors, providing creative direction, feedback, and skill development.
• Review team edits for creative quality, brand consistency, and performance alignment.
• Develop editing guidelines, templates, and best practices to improve consistency, quality, and efficiency.
• Edit video ads and content for Meta, TikTok, and other digital platforms.
• Work with Creative Strategists and production to turn briefs and footage into engaging, goal-driven assets.
• Apply hooks, pacing, storytelling, retention, and conversion principles.
• Lead testing of new editing styles, formats, and storytelling approaches.
• Own post-production from footage handoff to final delivery, meeting creative, timeline, and technical requirements.
• Maintain editing workflows, file organization, version control, and asset management.
• Ensure technical standards for audio, colour, motion graphics, captions, and platform-specific formatting.

What you'll bring

• At least 5 years of professional video-editing experience, ideally in DTC, e-commerce, performance marketing, or a fast-paced creative agency.
• A portfolio demonstrating compelling storytelling, creative versatility, and short-form, social-first video content.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or reviewing other editors and giving constructive creative feedback.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, or similar post-production tools.
• Organizational skills and experience managing workflows, project files, versioning, and concurrent deliverables.
• Strong communication and collaboration across creative strategy, production, and marketing teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-output environment while maintaining creative quality.

Preferred experience

• Familiarity with AI-powered editing tools and interest in emerging post-production technologies.
• Motion graphics and animation skills in After Effects are a plus.
• Experience with healthcare, wellness, or other regulated industries is a plus.
• Professional use of AI-powered video generation, editing, or automation tools is a plus.