Video Editor

• Edit long-form podcast and interview content from raw footage through final delivery
• Create high-performing short-form content for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and emerging social platforms
• Review footage to identify compelling emotional moments, strong hooks, and engaging story beats
• Shape narrative pacing, emotional arcs, and conversational flow to create impactful storytelling moments
• Build dynamic cold opens, teasers, and viral-ready clips that immediately capture audience attention
• Use pacing, jump cuts, music, sound design, tension, silence, and visual rhythm to elevate storytelling and emotional impact
• Collaborate closely with producers to refine narrative structure, emotional clarity, and audience experience across all content

• Create high-impact promotional content that drives episode launches, campaigns, partnerships, and audience growth
• Craft compelling trailers, marketing assets, and promotional videos
• Collaborate closely with producers, marketers, and creative teams to align promotional content with campaign strategy and brand voice
• Edit full-length podcast and video episodes as needed
• Tighten pacing and strengthen narrative structure across conversational content
• Incorporate branded graphics, templates, and visual systems

Video Editor – Trailer Focused

• Own end-to-end video production for Merlin
• Operate as Merlin's embedded eyes and camera on the ground
• Collaborate directly with the CMO and communications team
• Build and maintain a library of high-quality b-roll
• Manage external production relationships when needed

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Video Editor

Video Editor – Trailer Focused

Embedded Video Producer