Responsibilities

• Editing & post-production: Edit high-quality social media ads, trailers, reels, and other video assets for Peterson Academy.
• Multi-cam editing: Edit multi-cam timelines efficiently, syncing, organizing, cutting, and polishing footage from multiple camera angles.
• Short-form content strategy: Create engaging short-form content optimized for social media platforms, with a strong understanding of performance hooks, retention-driven pacing, and scroll-stopping openings.
• Post-production effects: Add professional visual effects, motion graphics, titles, transitions, compositing, and other post-production enhancements.
• DaVinci Resolve workflow: Work primarily in DaVinci Resolve, including editing, color, audio finishing, and delivery workflows.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with the creative, marketing, and production teams to translate briefs into polished video assets.
• Quality & brand consistency: Maintain a high standard of quality across all deliverables, ensuring consistency with Peterson Academy’s brand, tone, and visual identity.
• Project management: Manage multiple projects at once while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment.

Requirements

• Mastery of DaVinci Resolve is required.
• Strong VFX and motion graphics experience using tools such as Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, or comparable software.
• Proven experience editing multi-cam timelines.
• Experience creating content for social media, especially ads, reels, shorts, and performance-focused creative.
• Strong understanding of social media video structure, including hooks, pacing, subtitles, pattern interrupts, visual retention, and direct-response creative formats.
• Excellent eye for pacing, storytelling, sound design, color, typography, and visual polish.
• Ability to take creative direction, work collaboratively, and also operate independently.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage large amounts of media, footage, and project files.
• A portfolio or reel demonstrating editing, VFX, motion graphics, multi-cam work, and social media content is REQUIRED.

Preferred

• Experience editing educational content, online courses, podcast-style content, lectures, interviews, or long-form intellectual material.
• Experience editing paid social ads for Meta, YouTube, TikTok, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of color grading, sound design, and finishing workflows inside DaVinci Resolve.
• Familiarity with the work of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and a strong interest in the intellectual tradition Peterson Academy is built around, including the humanities, Great Books, philosophy, psychology, history, theology, literature, and the foundations of Western civilization.