Lead Editor, Brand Advertising & Production

Charlotte, NC (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

This role is the primary editor for NASCAR brand content, guiding editorial direction across commercials and specialty projects. It emphasizes leading reviews, asset management, and collaboration with leadership to ensure brand standards. The position requires a degree and several years of post-production experience with expert tooling, and offers competitive salaries plus wellness-focused benefits.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary editor for brand commercials, sizzles, specialty projects, and other key creative deliverables.
  • Edit, refine, and assemble footage into polished, broadcast-quality content that aligns with NASCAR’s brand tone, pacing, and creative intent.
  • Collaborate closely with leadership on creative approach, editorial style, music, pacing, and overall execution.
  • Lead the editorial process through multiple rounds of reviews, interpreting creative direction and feedback to refine cuts into clear, cohesive, and aligned final pieces.
  • Partner with leadership and creative stakeholders throughout the review cycle, ensuring all edits uphold internal brand standards, pacing, tone, and overall creative intent.
  • Provide input on shot-list planning and at-track capture needs based on ongoing editorial requirements.
  • Help assess, vet, and manage freelance editors, finish partners, and specialty post-production vendors as needed.
  • Oversee asset organization, version control, project resources, and naming conventions to ensure clean and efficient workflows.
  • Serve as a point of contact for external agencies, vendors, and partners for footage ingestion, content delivery, and asset transfer.
  • Maintain and manage the brand footage library by organizing clips, pulling selects, and cultivating weekly highlights from art cameras, broadcast melts, and supplemental sources.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or technical school
  • Five (5) years of Post-Production experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Expert-level proficiency with industry-standard post-production tools such as Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, Red Giant Software, and Frame.io.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Davinci Color knowledge is preferred.
  • Familiarity with media asset management (MAM) systems and shared storage workflows is preferred.
  • Thorough knowledge of timing, motivation, continuity etc. in storytelling.
  • Familiarity with special effects, 3D, and compositing.
  • Creative mind and storytelling skills.
  • Able to work a flexible work schedule as needed, including outside of normal business hours, in order to meet tight deadlines.

Preferred

  • Adobe Illustrator and Davinci Color knowledge preferred
  • Familiarity with MAM systems and shared storage workflows preferred
  • Familiarity with special effects, 3D, and compositing

Benefits

  • highly competitive salaries
  • a solid benefits package focused on wellness
  • opportunities for you to grow and develop both personally and professionally
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NASCAR

Welcome to NASCAR! We are a company unlike any other. We want you to bring your experience, skills and passion to our close-knit, high-energy environment in which our employees thrive and where you can prosper. We know the key to our success is our employees and we offer highly competitive salaries, a solid benefits package focused on wellness, and opportunities for you to grow and develop both personally and professionally. It won’t take you long to find out that you are on the right track here at NASCAR! About NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 14 of the nation’s major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR sanctions races in three national series (NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™, and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series™), four international series (NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race, NASCAR Canada Series, NASCAR Mexico Series, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour) and a local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series). The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA. Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, with offices in five cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races annually in 11 countries and more than 30 U.S. states. For more information visit www.NASCAR.com and www.IMSA.com, and follow NASCAR on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X and Snapchat.

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