Video Editor & AI Content Specialist

We are seeking a talented Video Editor and AI Content Specialist to join our fully remote team. In this role, you will transform raw footage, app screen recordings, and AI-generated visuals into compelling content that captures attention and drives action. You will enjoy creative freedom, access to a paid AI tool stack, and a direct line to leadership, allowing you to influence creative direction and produce high-impact social and paid video assets.

Key Responsibilities
- Edit content for both organic and paid platforms, including Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube, Meta, and TikTok ads, understanding the nuances between engagement-driven and conversion-focused videos.
- Translate detailed briefs from the Creative Strategist into polished creative outputs quickly and accurately.
- Manage the entire editing process from rough concepts, scripts, and storyboards to final export, while pitching your own ideas to enhance creative direction.
- Craft engaging hooks within the first three seconds and maintain viewer interest through pacing, rhythm, tension, and payoff.
- Generate missing footage using AI tools such as Runway, Kling, Veo, Higgsfield, ElevenLabs, and Topaz to create b-roll, backgrounds, voiceovers, visual effects, and fully AI-generated videos.
- Produce shareable AI content including humorous skits, characters, absurd scenarios, and UGC-style formats, staying on top of emerging viral AI trends.
- Rapidly adapt trending Reel and TikTok formats for Swapp’s brand, replicating style, pacing, and audio cues while making them unique.
- Experiment with unconventional editing techniques like jump cuts, glitch transitions, viral meme formats, and unusual pacing to create standout content.
- Design motion graphics and on-screen text animations including kinetic typography, captions, callouts, and transitions that align with brand identity.
- Manage audio mixing, music selection, and sound effects to enhance the energy and impact of each video.

Required Qualifications
- 2 to 4 years of professional video editing experience, with a strong focus on short-form social media content.
- Proficiency in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, and speed in CapCut desktop.
- Practical experience integrating generative AI tools into your regular workflow.
- A genuine sense of humor and an understanding of what resonates with internet audiences beyond polished visuals.
- Ability to identify and leverage recent social media trends, with examples of how you’ve adapted them.
- Strong audio and color sensibilities.
- Comfortable working with diverse footage types including smartphone clips, 4K b-roll, UI recordings, and animated assets within a single project.
- Ability to deliver high output quickly without sacrificing quality, thriving in a small team environment.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Experience with automotive, lifestyle, app, or product content is a plus.
- Experience pitching and owning recurring content formats is advantageous.
- Creative freedom with opportunities to step into creative direction roles.
- Access to performance data related to your work to inform and improve content.
- Direct communication with leadership, enabling swift decision-making and idea approval.
- Fully remote work setup.

Applicants must submit a portfolio or showreel for consideration. Please include three pieces you are most proud of, with brief notes on the assets you were given and your objectives for each. Bonus points for highlighting a piece where you adapted a trending format or viral AI style to make it uniquely your own.