Responsibilities

• Take what we shot and make people stop scrolling.
• You are handed demo footage and you come back with options. Three hooks. Two structures. A sixty and a fifteen. A version leading with the bowling ball and a version saving it.
• You bring the cuts, we watch them, and somebody in the room says heck yeah.
• This role sits between production and post, which is why we call it the pre-editor. You have real creative authority over how the story gets told. Nobody hands you the answer. You find it in the footage and you argue for it.
• The first three seconds: Build hooks landing before somebody's thumb finishes moving. No logo, no wind up, no setup shot.
• Tell it the way social tells it. Problem, tension, proof, payoff, all inside a minute.
• Structure for the platform. A YouTube cut and a TikTok cut are different films, not different crops.
• Cut for the sound off and the sound on. Both have to work.
• Premiere or Resolve at speed. Clean projects, sane organization, nothing lost.
• Sound design carrying the weight. A motor spinning up should feel like something.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years cutting social video. Brand, agency, creator, or your own channel. We care about the work, not the logo on it.
• A reel proving you hold attention. Send the videos performing, and tell us why they did.
• Premiere or Resolve, plus After Effects.
• Speed. Footage on Monday, options on Wednesday, live by Friday.
• Volume without a drop in quality. Some weeks are one hero cut. Some weeks are twenty.
• Producer instincts. You spot the story in the footage and pitch it, rather than waiting to be told.
• A point of view you will defend, and the grace to lose the argument and cut it the other way.
• Fluency in what makes people stop, save, and send.

Preferred

• Bonus for real sound design chops.

Benefits

• medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre-paid legal insurance, back-up child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.