Video Editor & Motion Designer

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end motion production pipeline and drive platform-focused, high-fidelity brand storytelling from concept through delivery, while shaping studio standards and mentoring junior talent.

  • End-to-End Delivery: Own brand campaigns and social content pipelines from assembly to final render.
  • Platform-First & Efficiency: Tailor edits for broadcast, digital, and social formats; integrate AI to raise quality and speed.
  • Knowledge Sharing & Mentorship: Elevate studio standards by sharing new tech and coaching junior editors.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • End-to-End Delivery: Lead the full pipeline for brand campaigns, hero films, and social-first content—from assembly and VFX to sound design and grading.
  • Storytelling Excellence: Craft high-impact cuts with a deep understanding of pacing, narrative, and emotional resonance.
  • Platform-First Strategy: Optimize edits for diverse formats and aspect ratios across broadcast, digital, and social media.
  • Finishing Skills: Deliver professional-grade sound design, audio mixing, and confident color grading.
  • Motion & Graphics: Build animated sequences and titles using After Effects as a core toolkit.
  • Workflow Management: Maintain organized project files and robust asset libraries to ensure studio efficiency.
  • Dynamic Graphics: Create standalone animated films, kinetic typography, and graphic openers.
  • Brand Alignment: Ensure all motion output is system-driven and coherent with brand identity.
  • Creative Collaboration: Partner with Designers and Creative Directors to translate static concepts into fluid motion.
  • Tool Integration: Adopt AI workflows to boost efficiency and creative quality.

Requirements

  • Exceptional editing skills with a strong portfolio spanning long-form documentary, campaign content, and social media
  • Expert-level proficiency in DaVinci Resolve
  • Strong After Effects skills — confident building animated titles, motion graphics, and compositing
  • Solid sound design capability, including audio mixing and music editing
  • Experience with colour grading — able to produce polished grades independently and brief colourists with clarity
  • Organised, process-driven approach to post-production workflows and project management
  • Collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset with excellent communication skills
  • A genuine enthusiasm for AI tools in the video and motion design space — currently experimenting and staying ahead

    Benefits

    • Flexible schedule and hybrid work options that help you balance your time and work in a way that fits your life.
    • A geographic mobility plan that gives you the chance to explore new opportunities and work from different SAMY locations around the world.
    • Celebrate your birthday with a day off, and take time to enjoy December 24th and 31st as company holidays to relax, recharge, and enjoy what matters most.
    • Global social and environmental activities that allow you to take part in initiatives that create a positive impact connecting with colleagues from around the world and contributing to projects that make a difference.
    • Mirror Club is our mentoring program designed to accelerate the careers of talented women by connecting them with experienced mentors.
    • Global Referral Program that lets you refer clients, projects, or teammates, helping SAMY grow stronger while earning rewards for your contributions.
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    SAMY UK

    SAMY leads the evolution of brand communication. We build brand relevance in a social universe by integrating intelligence, creativity, and technology.To the modern consumer, social isn’t a series of platforms - it’s a single, living ecosystem. Stories, posts, reels, and influencer content blur into one seamless experience. Audiences move fluidly through this dynamic world, and our intelligence spans the entire system, helping brands act with true intention where it matters most. With culturally in-step creativity, we fuel meaningful ideas that are always on, always relevant, and always evolving.Our 1000+ strong, social-native team is connected across 20 offices and active in 55 markets. Clients like L’Oréal, who place social and influencer at the heart of their strategy, have grown alongside SAMY from day one. Others, like The North Face, Diageo, Microsoft and Samsung, joined us along the way and have since become valued brand partners.We make audiences understandable. We make brands social. We make messages unskippable. We make products buyable. We make technology powerful.This is how we make brands matter.

    Founded in 2015
    London Colney, England, GBR
    94 employees (37 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    33.2K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    41%
    Direct
    45.8%
    Referral
    8.8%
    Social
    3.3%
    Paid
    0.9%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~92

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    23 (24% of company)