Video Editor

About This Role

Location: Dubai, UAE (JLT) - Remote

What You'll Drive

Join a founder-led boutique creative agency delivering bold, growth-focused solutions in branding, campaigns, digital design, and social impact projects. They're a values-driven studio in Dubai's JLT, building brands from mission to market like full brand builds for micro-mobility leaders and fintech platforms while championing "growth through creativity" for clients and teams. Plus craft compelling video content for our anchor Saudi mining client, a principal partner of Aston Martin in Formula 1, transforming industrial scale into sleek, edgy campaigns with global flair.

As Video Editor, you'll shape visual narratives through the cut, drive end-to-end video production, and bring creative concepts to life across social-first campaigns, brand films, and OOH placements in a human, non-formal culture. Work closely with art directors, designers, and strategists to ensure every frame lands with intention, energy, and impact.

What You'll Focus On

• Edit high-quality video content for social-first campaigns and OOH placements across digital screens and physical spaces.
• Craft platform-optimised content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, paid social, and digital OOH with strong pacing, rhythm, and music integration.
• Develop motion graphics, typography, supers, transitions, and light VFX to enhance narrative and brand identity.
• Apply colour grading, sound design, and finishing techniques to deliver polished, client-ready outputs.
• Adapt edits across multiple aspect ratios and formats, ensuring technical accuracy for social and large-scale OOH placements.
• Confidently interpret briefs and push creative further by proposing fresh editorial approaches where needed.
• Utilise AI tools within the editing workflow for efficiency, ideation, enhancement, clean-up, or generative creative experimentation.
• Collaborate with creatives, strategists, and account teams to meet tight timelines without compromising quality.
• Manage media efficiently and maintain a clean, scalable workflow across projects.

Who You Are

• 2-4 years of video editing experience in an agency, production company, or content studio.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects; working knowledge of Highfield, Weavy, or similar tools is a bonus.
• Strong sound design sensibility with an understanding of how audio drives emotion and impact.
• Confident in motion graphics and comfortable building assets rather than relying solely on templates.
• Proven experience delivering content for social platforms and an understanding of how content performs across them.
• Familiarity with OOH technical requirements and scaling creative for large-format screens is advantageous.
• Proactive and self-directed with the confidence to take ownership of projects when needed.
• Confident communicator who thrives in a small, collaborative team and takes feedback constructively.
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Tech Stack

• Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Audition, Highfield, Weavy, with focus on social content, OOH campaigns, motion graphics, and integrated video production.

Why You'll Thrive Here

• Founder-led studio (11-50 team) with direct access to CEO, end-to-end brand building, and purpose-driven work like UNHCR MENA partnerships donating 25% of fashion line sales to refugees.
• Bold, human culture rejecting "formal" vibes and "urgent" chaos while prioritising strategy, planning, and real impact across Dubai's dynamic scene.
• Hero projects with clients like micro-mobility brands (full strategy to campaigns) and fintech refreshes, plus self-initiated thought-leadership.
• Diverse, gritty team valuing bold voices, social impact, and sustainable brand growth over vanity metrics.
• Fully remote