Short-Form Video Editor

We are seeking a skilled Short-Form Video Editor specializing in Reels and premium brand content to join a remote, fractional role. This position focuses on transforming raw footage and existing brand assets into polished, high-quality short-form videos that align with a sophisticated and intentional brand aesthetic. The role is execution-driven, requiring the ability to take provided materials and creative direction to deliver refined, professional content without relying on typical influencer-style or heavily templated edits.

Key Responsibilities
- Edit raw footage into polished Reels and short-form videos with strong pacing and natural visual flow.
- Select the best clips and structure edits to enhance rhythm and storytelling.
- Incorporate existing brand assets seamlessly into final videos.
- Prepare videos optimized for social platforms and short-form placements.
- Maintain a premium visual style through professional color correction and grading.
- Use transitions and effects that complement rather than overpower the content, ensuring consistency with brand guidelines.
- Select and edit music and audio elements to support pacing and production quality, balancing dialogue, music, and sound effects effectively.
- Work efficiently from provided footage, assets, and creative direction to produce publication-ready content.
- Manage multiple edits and revisions while maintaining organized project files and final exports.
- Help maintain a backlog of completed short-form creative assets.

Required Qualifications
- Proven professional experience editing short-form video, Reels, branded content, or commercial social media content.
- Strong portfolio or reel showcasing high-quality video editing skills.
- Excellent sense of pacing, rhythm, composition, and storytelling.
- Proficiency in color correction and color grading.
- Sound judgment in music and audio selection to enhance brand content.
- Ability to create premium brand content without over-reliance on templates or trendy effects.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently from creative direction.
- Comfortable working in a fractional, remote capacity with consistent on-time delivery of polished creative work.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Experience producing content for premium, luxury, lifestyle, or design-conscious brands.
- Advanced skills with professional video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and After Effects.
- Familiarity with Instagram Reels and other vertical short-form video formats.
- Understanding of typography and motion graphics for video.
- Experience working within established brand systems and creative directions.
- Strong capabilities in color grading and sound integration for branded content.

Tools & Technology
Candidates should be proficient with industry-standard editing tools including Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, professional color grading, and audio editing software. Equivalent professional tools are also acceptable.

What Makes You a Strong Fit
Success in this role requires a sharp visual eye to recognize polished edits, an understanding of the distinction between premium branded content and typical influencer edits, and the ability to keep edits clean and intentional. You should have excellent instincts for pacing, music, and sound, and be able to elevate raw footage through editing and color. The role demands a highly execution-oriented mindset, the ability to work well within established creative direction, and the capacity to efficiently incorporate feedback and revisions.

Typical Project Workflow
You will receive raw footage, creative assets, and direction, then select the strongest clips, build the edit, refine pacing and color, choose appropriate music and sound, integrate brand elements, and deliver a polished final video ready for publication.

Key Metrics for Success
Success will be measured by the quality and polish of finished videos, adherence to brand aesthetics, strength of editing and pacing, quality of color grading, effectiveness of sound selection, turnaround time, accuracy to creative direction, efficiency in revisions, consistency across projects, and reliability in providing fractional creative support.

Interview Process
Candidates will undergo an initial application and portfolio review, complete a one-way video interview via Spark Hire, followed by recruiter and client interviews before receiving an offer and onboarding.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Short-Form Video Editor with a portfolio of premium brand content and strong skills in editing, pacing, color grading, and sound to contribute remotely in a fractional capacity. If you excel at turning raw materials into exceptional finished creative, we encourage you to apply.