Freelance Social Media Video Editor – Short-Form Content

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🌐 Philippines, Malaysia, +1 more countries – Remote

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Remote 🇮🇩 Indonesia – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💕 Social Media Manager

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Hire Digital

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51 - 200 employees

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Hire Digital is a company that provides businesses with on-demand access to a meticulously screened network of digital talents. Specializing in digital marketing, software development, and design, Hire Digital enables organizations to build highly skilled teams that can improve ROI and drive digital transformation. Businesses can leverage their curated talents, including digital marketers, developers, designers, writers, and project managers, to enhance digital capabilities and execute key projects effectively. Hire Digital's talent solutions are tailored to support digital transformation efforts and help companies manage seasonal resources, pilot projects, and address various digital marketing needs.

📋 Description

• Edit approximately 12–15 short-form social videos per month • Turn raw footage, interviews, and social content into engaging vertical videos • Identify strong hooks, reactions, soundbites, and entertaining moments • Create platform-native edits for Instagram Reels and TikTok • Use captions, cuts, zooms, graphics, sound effects, reactions, and other creative treatments • Keep viewers engaged during slower or less visually interesting moments • Adapt editing approaches to different content rather than relying on one template • Collaborate with the social team while independently recommending creative approaches

🎯 Requirements

• Experience creating social-first short-form content • Strong understanding of Instagram Reels, TikTok, and short-form social content • Strong creative instincts and ability to make independent editing decisions • Understanding of pacing, viewer retention, hooks, and removing dead moments • Ability to make ordinary footage engaging through creative editing • Ability to adapt editing style to the footage, concept, and audience • Portfolio demonstrating Instagram Reels • Portfolio demonstrating TikTok content • Portfolio demonstrating social-first interview edits • Portfolio demonstrating creator/influencer-style content • Portfolio demonstrating personality-led videos • Portfolio demonstrating fast-paced or humorous social content • Portfolio demonstrating videos where editing plays a major role in entertainment value