
Video Editor
Ethos
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $105,000 - $185,000 per year
About the role
- Edit raw footage into polished DR videos with engaging cuts, transitions, graphics, captions, and sound design.
- Adapt and optimize edits for different platforms (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc.), ensuring videos are formatted, captioned, and styled appropriately.
- Make quick edits to existing tv content.
- Edit and bring Youtube concepts to life leveraging b-roll and other content from an internal library.
- Stay up to date on video trends, editing styles, and content formats to help guide fresh creative ideas.
- Collaborate to brainstorm and pitch ideas for short-form video content using UGC, influencer material, and stock assets that are optimized for conversion focused channels.
- Have motion graphic and animation experience.
- Work cross functionally with paid social strategists, influencer managers and other stakeholders to get performance insights and align on messaging, tone, and creative direction.
- Elevate and evolve Ethos influencer allowlisting and UGC videos helping to achieve ROAs goals.
- Design a high volume of video edits working directly against a brief or concepting and designing net-new creatives. In some cases you must be able to storyboard and clearly present ideas before moving into production.
- Ideal candidate would have interest in art direction and identifying and pitching ideas that create business or user value.
- Must have an understanding of best practices for video creative across the paid social landscape and know how to work within brand guidelines.
- Have an understanding of paid social metrics and be able to apply data based learnings to their work.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of video editing experience with a focus on using influencer, UGC, and stock footage to create DR focused ads and bring concepts to life.
- Experience editing videos with conversion-oriented goals and a proven ability to create high-performing paid social ads.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating your experience making DR ads, storytelling ability and how you’ve repurposed content to achieve performance related goals.
- Experience editing existing content to create videos for Youtube.
- Strong understanding of paid social formats, and online video delivery.
- Experience making cuts and edits to existing TV content.
- Excellent understanding of design principles, typography, color theory, and composition.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to foster strong working relationships with team members and cross-functional partners.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Strong skills around critical thinking and storytelling.
- Must have deep knowledge using Figma, FinalCut, After Effects, Frameio and Premier Pro.
- Receptive to feedback in an iterative design process.
- Able to work independently, drive multiple projects at a time, and iterate quickly.
Benefits
- Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
- At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.
- To learn more about what information we collect and how it may be used, please refer to our California Candidate Privacy Notice.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
video editingmotion graphicsanimationstorytellingdesign principlestypographycolor theorycompositionconversion-oriented video creationpaid social metrics
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationcritical thinkingcreativityadaptabilityindependencetime managementreceptiveness to feedbackrelationship buildingfast-paced work