Video Editor
The Video Editor will turn footage, screen recordings, demonstrations, and creative concepts into high-volume long- and short-form content across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, launches, and campaigns. The role requires strong editorial judgment, platform expertise, retention-focused storytelling, and comfort with AI-assisted production.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Edit video for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, product launches, educational content, campaigns, and partnerships.
- Transform raw footage, screen recordings, voiceovers, and product demonstrations into polished, engaging videos.
- Edit both long-form and short-form content for different platforms, formats, audiences, and aspect ratios.
- Create strong openings and use pacing, cuts, sound, music, captions, and graphics to maintain viewer attention.
- Produce multiple pieces and variations each week while maintaining editorial and visual quality.
- Repurpose long-form content into short-form clips and channel-specific assets.
- Test hooks, openings, lengths, and editing approaches using watch-time and retention data.
- Collaborate with educational content, motion design, graphic design, product marketing, and channel teams.
- Use generative AI and AI-powered editing tools to improve production speed and explore creative possibilities.
- Build templates, presets, and repeatable workflows that increase scalable output.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in video editing, content production, or a similar role.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality digital video content.
- Proficiency with Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or equivalent professional editing software.
- Solid understanding of sound design, music, captions, and basic visual effects.
- Strong pacing, storytelling, and audience-retention instincts.
- Experience with short-form and long-form content, screen recordings, product demonstrations, talking-head footage, and voiceovers.
- Familiarity with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other platform requirements.
- Ability to make independent editorial decisions and manage multiple videos at different production stages.
- Ability to work at high production velocity while maintaining quality.
- Familiarity with AI-powered video and editing tools.
- Good written and spoken English.
Nice to Have
- Experience editing high-performing YouTube or short-form social content, or working with creators and creator-led brands.
- Deep experience with AI video generation and AI-assisted editing.
- Motion design, particularly After Effects, color grading, or advanced sound design.
- Experience using audience-retention analytics, understanding the interaction between thumbnails, titles, and video, or building scalable editing and repurposing workflows.
Compensation and Benefits
- Full-time, in-office role at the Amsterdam headquarters.
- 30 work-from-anywhere days per year.
- Warm lunch on office days.
- 24 days of paid vacation per year plus public holidays.
- Travel allowance in the form of an NS card for employees living more than 10 km from the office.
- Company pension plan.
- Company events and overseas trips.
Skills
Adobe Premiere Pro, Davinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Sound Design, Visual Effects, Motion Design, After Effects, Color Grading, Audience Retention Analytics, Generative AI, Video Editing, Youtube, TikTok, Instagram
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