Senior Video Editor

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🕒 April 9

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rrreefs

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

🛍️ eCommerce

B2B • Recruitment • eCommerce

rrreefs is a recruitment agency specializing in connecting creative professionals, like designers and video editors, from the Philippines with businesses looking to hire top talent at reduced costs. They provide a comprehensive vetting process to ensure that only highly skilled candidates, typically with 5-10 years of experience, are presented to companies, helping to fill roles quickly—often within 14 days. With a focus on transparent pricing and a satisfaction guarantee, rrreefs aims to streamline and optimize the hiring process for marketing and creative agencies.

📋 Description

• We're seeking an experienced Senior Video Editor to join a US-based media company producing conservative, news-focused content on immigration, border security, crime, and national security. • This role focuses on cinematic long-form documentary content (10-45+ minutes) alongside short-form social clips cut from the same material for YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. • You'll work directly with producers on scripted, voiceover-driven narrative content, owning the edit from raw footage through to published asset across both formats. • The production team provides scripts, sourced footage, and clear briefs; you bring the storytelling instinct and technical craft to turn that material into finished, emotionally engaging content. • Delivering every assigned edit on or before deadline within two revision rounds, maintaining a cinematic and journalistic tone across both long-form and short-form output, and producing content that holds viewer attention through strong narrative structure, pacing, and platform-specific optimisation.

🎯 Requirements

• Excellent spoken and written English with strong, proactive communication skills • 5+ years hands-on experience editing narrative, documentary, or long-form content • Expert-level proficiency in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve • Proven portfolio showcasing both long-form narrative work and short-form social clips • Strong instincts for pacing, hook structure, and emotional storytelling • Confident with audio mixing, colour correction, B-roll integration, sound design, and subtitle formatting • Understanding of platform-specific requirements (aspect ratios, opening seconds, caption styles) for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok • Ability to self-manage technical issues and file organisation via Google Drive or Dropbox • Availability for 60 hours per week, Monday to Saturday, with US daytime overlap • Responsiveness on Slack within 15-30 minutes during working hours • Fast and reliable internet connection; your own laptop or desktop suitable for the role; a quiet working environment; a good quality microphone or headset

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation • $800-$1,200 USD per month, depending on experience and demonstrated output quality • Rate reviewed at 90 days based on deadline adherence, revision rates, brand consistency, and producer feedback • Top of band ($1,200) reserved for editors consistently delivering first-submission sign-off at 70%+ with zero missed deadlines • What's on Offer? • Direct engagement with an established US media company with a clear editorial voice • Craft-focused role with real ownership of the edit, not a support seat • Stable full-time income rather than project-based variability • Access to other job opportunities through the Reef network