Video Editor

Overview Placement Type: Temporary Salary: $40-42 Hourly + Benefits and 401k Start Date: Oct 5, 2026 Duration: Through Jan 31, 2027 - Could Extend Aquent is proud to partner with a leading creative studio that stands at the forefront of shaping how a major brand connects with its audience. This dynamic organization is renowned for its innovative approach to content creation, driving engagement across diverse platforms and campaigns, and is looking for exceptional talent to join their team. Are you a visionary storyteller with a passion for transforming raw footage into captivating narratives? This exhilarating opportunity offers you the chance to become a core contributor within a vibrant Post Production team. You will be instrumental in shaping how a prominent brand connects with its audience, building its digital and social footprint, pushing creative boundaries, and driving engagement across diverse platforms. Your expertise will directly impact brand perception and elevate the overall presence of a major brand across every channel, making a tangible difference in how millions experience content. What You Will Do Craft and edit a diverse range of content, including commercial spots, digital campaigns, social-first cuts, and long-form branded pieces, ensuring each deliverable is polished, compelling, and optimized for its specific platform. Translate creative briefs into effective editorial approaches, actively contributing ideas for pacing, music, and visual rhythm while remaining open to feedback and creative direction. Develop and manage multi-deliverable versioning packages, meticulously adapting approved masters into various lengths, aspect ratios, and platform-specific formats (e.g., broadcast, digital, social media, out-of-home). Bring a unique creative perspective to the edit suite, making active contributions to performance choices, narrative structure, and music selection, balancing creative ambition with strategic objectives. Stay abreast of the latest platform trends, viral content formats, platform algorithms, and the evolving visual language of social media, integrating this knowledge into your editorial choices to build brand presence, keep content fresh, and remain culturally resonant. Strategically craft social-first cuts designed to maximize viewer retention, scroll-stopping visual hooks, and platform-specific engagement across channel footprints. Maintain rigorous project organization, including clean bin and folder structures, consistent naming conventions, and accurate media management, ensuring seamless collaboration. Prepare and export all deliverables to precise technical specifications, including codec, resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, and loudness standards, performing thorough final technical reviews. Contribute to and uphold departmental editorial standard operating procedures and workflow documentation, helping to build a clean and consistent post-production environment. Identify and implement opportunities to automate repetitive technical tasks, such as export batches and proxy generation, to maximize creative time and efficiency. Prepare clean and complete handoff packages for downstream post-production departments, including conform materials, audio exports, and visual effects pull lists, ensuring smooth transitions. Collaborate closely with creative directors, art directors, social media strategists, and producers throughout the editing process, actively participating in reviews and communicating proactively on project status and potential issues. Work fluidly with the broader post-production team, including motion designers, colorists, and audio engineers, integrating their work seamlessly into timelines and maintaining strong inter-departmental communication. Manage multiple concurrent projects effectively, tracking your workload, proactively flagging scheduling risks, and keeping stakeholders informed on project progress. Contribute to a positive, energized, and high-functioning studio environment, fostering a collaborative atmosphere where exceptional creative work thrives. Must-Have Qualifications Minimum of 3-5 years of dedicated experience in editorial roles, ideally within a commercial post facility, advertising agency, or in-house creative studio, with a strong portfolio demonstrating creative and technical editorial work across commercial, digital, and social formats. Proven track record of creating social content that increases brand presence, audience engagement, and channel growth across key platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn). Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and/or Avid Media Composer, including expertise in multicam editorial, shared storage environments, project organization, and multi-deliverable sequence management. Working knowledge of the broader Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Photoshop, and Audition, for supporting temp graphics, basic compositing, and audio fixes within an editorial context. Strong understanding of media formats, codecs, and technical delivery requirements across broadcast, digital, and social platforms, including ProRes, DNxHD, H.264/H.265, loudness standards, and platform-specific aspect ratio and encoding specifications. Demonstrated experience editing for major social media platforms, with a deep understanding of content optimization for pacing, platform hooks, vertical video formats, captioning, and viewer behavior on each platform. Exceptional project organization and file management discipline, with experience in shared storage environments and the ability to maintain clean, well-structured projects across multiple concurrent productions. A creative and solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving, capable of identifying project needs, proposing clear paths forward, and executing efficiently under deadline pressure without compromising quality. Proficiency in production management and collaboration tools such as Airtable, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word), Google Slides and PowerPoint, Slack, and Teams. Nice-to-Have Qualifications Deep interest or background in social media strategy, channel analytics, and performance-driven creative optimization. Proficiency in DaVinci Resolve for editorial, color review, or delivery workflows. Experience collaborating closely with motion design and computer graphics teams, understanding how to effectively integrate placeholder graphics, computer graphics renders, and motion design elements into timelines. Working knowledge of color science and color-managed workflows, including log formats, LUT application, and correct sequence setup for downstream color grading. Experience in a marketing, retail, or e-commerce environment, understanding how editorial decisions align with campaign objectives, social media campaigns, brand standards, and legal compliance. Familiarity with AI-assisted editorial tools, such as auto-captioning and dialogue-based search, and an interest in leveraging them to enhance efficiency and creative capacity on high-volume projects. About Aquent Talent Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.