Video Editor - Contract

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$40/hr – $55/hrSenior Level5+ years expContract

Posted 21 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Lead the end-to-end editing of promotional videos from concept to final deliverables, including trailers, cutdowns, and vertical/horizontal formats, while coordinating approvals with platform reps and stakeholders.

  • Own concepting and editing of marketing videos
  • Manage large live-action stringouts and selects
  • Collaborate with Marketing Producer for approvals

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the creation of promotional materials for our products and website
  • Concept, edit, and iterate trailers and promotional spots, from first assembly through final deliverables
  • Execute cutdowns of existing marketing assets. For example, cutting a 60-second spot down to its essential components, hitting 30- and 15-second variants with limited direction.
  • Handle large stringouts of raw live action footage
  • Creating organized stringouts of gameplay recordings, and pulling high-quality selects
  • Edit and deliver finished content in both horizontal and vertical formats
  • Work with our Marketing Producer to make sure any advertising video we create has received approval from platform representatives and internal stakeholders

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience editing high-end marketing materials in both horizontal and vertical formats
  • Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Premiere
  • Proficiency in the full Adobe Creative Suite
  • Basic motion graphics and design skills
  • A strong feel for structure, timing, energy, and rhythm
  • Comfort making bold creative choices
  • A goofy, playful sense of humor
  • Awareness of social media trends, with the ability to ideate and pitch new content that ties the brand to these trends
  • A strong ability to prioritize varied workloads with long and short-term deadlines
  • A team player mindset. Our marketing department intersects with almost every other department in our company and you will need to be able to work effectively both on your own and as part of a larger group.
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Jackbox Games

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Hi! We’re Jackbox Games. You may know us from our mega-hit trivia comedy series YOU DON’T KNOW JACK. Or maybe you know us from Fibbage, Drawful, Quiplash, Trivia Murder Party, or any of the hit games from The Jackbox Party Pack series. Our latest releases include The Jackbox Survey Scramble and The Jackbox Party Pack 11.

Founded in 1995
Chicago, Illinois, USA
94 employees (51 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
980.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$13.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
62.1%
Direct
19.8%
Referral
10.8%
Social
4.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~94

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
22 (23% of company)
Median Tenure
5.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Seed

Funding History

  • Dec 2011
    Seed

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