Video Editor (Contract)

New York City, NY (Remote)

$0K/day – $1K/dayMid Level2+ years expContract

Posted 23 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end post-production for platform-native social videos, shaping narrative, pacing, and motion to drive high-performing edits across TikTok, Reels, YouTube, and paid/social tests.

  • Own end-to-end post-production for platform-native social videos.
  • Drive narrative, pacing, and motion graphics for high engagement across TikTok, Reels, and YouTube.
  • Manage rapid turnaround and feedback integration for reactive content.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Edit high-quality short- and long-form video for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube (Shorts and long-form), and paid social campaigns.
  • Turn edits around quickly on reactive, trend-led, and time-sensitive content without compromising quality.
  • Craft clear narrative and pacing: strong hooks, tight storytelling, and retention-focused structure built for each platform.
  • Design and animate motion graphics, kinetic typography, lower-thirds, and light VFX to lift each edit.
  • Cut performance creative for paid social: hook variations, UGC-style ads, and versions built for testing.
  • Own the full post-production workflow in Premiere Pro (media management, project organisation, sound mixing, colour, captions, and clean exports to spec).
  • Repurpose and reformat hero content into platform-native cutdowns across aspect ratios.
  • Incorporate feedback efficiently across review rounds and deliver on deadline.
  • Keep assets, projects, and file naming organized and easy to hand off.

Requirements

  • 2–4 years editing social-first video, with a portfolio or reel that shows range across platforms.
  • Advanced Premiere Pro skills and a solid, self-sufficient post-production workflow.
  • Strong motion graphics ability (After Effects proficiency preferred).
  • A genuine feel for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube: you understand platform trends, formats, and what earns attention.
  • Proven ability to work fast on reactive content while keeping edits polished.
  • A storyteller's instinct for pacing, hooks, and emotional beats.
  • Comfortable editing for paid social and an understanding of hook-led, test-driven performance creative.
  • Solid grasp of sound design, music selection, captioning, and export specs.
  • Self-directed, reliable, and easy to collaborate with remotely.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with DaVinci Resolve for color, or the wider Adobe Creative Cloud suite.
  • Sound design and audio-mixing abilities.
  • Experience working with brands, agencies, or in-house social teams.
  • An eye for design (typography, layout, colour).

SHADOW

SHADOW is a creative marketing and communications agency with integrated disciplines across media relations, influencer marketing, experiential and event production, social media management and content development. Using these services, we shape insights and ideas into stories, animate stories into moments and engineer moments into movements.We are also connectors – we create inter-client synergies to maximize opportunity as well as leverage industry relationships for introductions, partnerships, business development and more. With a robust portfolio of brand campaigns, cross-categorical experience, and a deep rolodex of industry relationships, we have captured the loyalty of some of the world’s most prestigious companies, including luxury and lifestyle brands, retailers, tech start-ups, publishers, personalities, non-profit organizations and hospitality groups. We are a New York-based agency, with a west coast presence made possible through our SHADOWest suite of services.

Founded in 2007
New York, New York, USA
324 employees (64 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.6%
Direct
53.4%
Referral
6%
Social
12.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~330

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
24 (7% of company)
Median Tenure
7.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3