Senior Video Editor

Job Description

Dotdash Meredith is seeking a highly creative and dynamic Senior Video Editor to craft shareable and engaging Youtube, IG, TikTok, O&O, branded, and marketing videos.

In this role you’ll work closely with producers to create snappy and stylized web videos across multiple sites, in varying formats from longer form hosted videos for YouTube to super fast TikTok cuts, and everything in between.

Top candidates will have an exceptional sense of pacing and graphical aesthetics and a sharp eye for best practices across all platforms.

As the country’s largest digital publisher, our content ranges from exciting celebrity videos for InStyle and Byrdie, to food and lifestyle content for brands like AllRecipes and Food & Wine.

The Senior Video Editor will be responsible for editing videos designed to inspire and inform audiences across all of these brands.

You will be a creative team player who has a passion for excellent understanding of editing techniques and how to hook audiences and keep them watching to the end.

The ideal candidate’s portfolio will showcase high quality work for YouTube but also reflect experience editing for a plethora of other platforms.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for storytelling and celebrity culture.

This position will require 3 days of onsite work a week, with the option to work remotely 2 days a week.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate and communicate with in-house producers to creatively and efficiently execute a wide range of videos in a fast-paced environment for multiple online brands.
• Seamlessly pivot between GFX packages and edit styles, including celebrity interviews, recipes, product reviews, beauty, home improvement, and doc-style projects.

Move across projects quickly with little ramp time.

• Ensure videos are optimized for various platforms, including adhering to platform-specific guidelines and best practices for YouTube, social media, and other digital channels.
• Proactively identify creative ways to incorporate text, sound effects, music and more to make videos more engaging.
• Take ownership over the final exports as much as producers do. Bring your technical skill and creativity to every edit and be self-sufficient.

Build cuts based on scripts and articles with little guidance from producers.

• Maintain brand consistency and quality standards across all video content, ensuring alignment with Dotdash Meredith’s brand voice and style.
• Manage feedback from producers and deliver flawless edits and revisions; strive to catch errors before they make it up the chain.
• Execute basic color correction and audio mixes.
• Manage personal production queue, asset delivery, and upload across content management tools including Google Sheets, Airtable, and our in-house CMS.
• Be a team leader : mentor junior editors, bring new ideas to the table, always be on top of the latest trends and proactively suggest new ideas and techniques to enhance video quality and engagement.

Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

Education :

Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, Communications, or a related field is preferred.

Experience :

• Minimum of 5 years of professional video editing experience, with a strong portfolio showcasing diverse work, including YouTube videos, editorial, branded, and social media content.
• Creativity and Precision : a keen eye for detail and a creative approach to video editing and storytelling.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly with Premiere, Photoshop, and AfterEffects.
• Immersed in digital video across multiple platforms; up-to-date knowledge of video formats and aesthetics on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills. Proven experience fluidly communicating and collaborating with producers and project stakeholders.

Ability to see spelling and grammar errors in basic text.

• Ability to to identify and / or create narratives hand-in-hand with producers and consider the creative objectives and feedback of multiple stakeholders.
• Deadline-Oriented : must be able to manage multiple projects efficiently and meet deadlines without compromising quality.
• Professionalism : a respectful, responsible and calm attitude towards work and client interactions is highly valued.
• Organized : Working within our Media Asset Management system to ensure project organization meets Post Production best practices.
• Self-starter who requires little oversight.

Travel Required : 0

Pay Range

Salary : New York : $100,000.00 - $120,000.00

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future.

Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance.

The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.

In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location.

We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.