Social Media Video Editor

Position Overview

Saylor seeks a sharp, innovative Social Video Editor to help lead best-in-class creative campaigns for global brands on social media. This full-time role will work closely with the production, social and creative teams to bring creative concepts to life at the speed of online culture.

The ideal candidate is a multi-faceted creative who understands social media trends and content nuances. They understand what algorithms want and what piques social audiences' interests. They know the difference between a shitpost and brainrot. They know how to custom create content for varying brand voices and styling. They identify their editing style spectrum capabilities from lo-fi meme video to elevated paid social video. Their eye starts to twitch when the first three seconds of a social video doesn't hit.

About You

You’ve been raised in the social media trenches and you can spew a thesis about the spectrum of social video from memes to polished. You understand the value of speed over perfection in this social landscape. You’re scrappy. You’re one of the leaders of sharing content in your group chats. You thrive off of partnering with Social and Copy team members to bring unhinged, first-to-market creative that delights audiences to life. You overlap with Social and Copy because you understand and are enthusiastic about the creative development phase and want to participate in laying the foundation for hyper-engaging content.

Responsibilities:

• A key creative voice in social video execution; platform-native editorial instincts and a sharp sense of what performs on various platforms
• Partner with your Social, Design, and Production teams to maintain and execute the editorial tone for assigned campaigns
• Ensure that editorial projects are delivered on their agreed upon timeline, often at the speed of social
• Mastery of the brand guidelines and identity on social with ability to apply relevantly and quickly
• Reactivity to online trends that make sense for the brand, participating regularly with your project pod in ideation from a digital AV perspective
• Mastery of lo-fi organic content packed with the nuance that activates social audiences
• Mastery of quality control, logos, framing for social, and other tactics
• Ability to support in coloring, sound mixing, and captions, SRT file or transcript development as needed
• Consistent creation of highly engaging, high performing content across platforms for global brands

Requirements:

• Have high level campaign editing experience in entertainment, lifestyle, gaming, or youth culture marketing. Both traditional and social
• 5 years of experience as a video editor in an agency or in-house at a studio, with experience editing for social media vertical video
• A well-developed editorial creative point of view, and the ability to identify strong ideas and executions
• Attention to detail. Perfect caption QC skills
• Effective time management skills and the ability to meet tight, high-volume deadlines
• Ability to seamlessly bounce between edit projects of varying complexity
• Extensive knowledge and awareness of current social marketing video tactics and trends across various platforms
• Ability to color correct and sound design projects within Premiere Pro
• Ability to perform simple 2D motion graphics
• Understanding of marketing, production, social media, branded content, long and short form video
• Proficiency with required desktop tools, including Adobe Premiere Pro
• Creative mastery of social-first plugins and apps
• Understanding of how audiences consume social media video in this current climate

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