<p><strong>Part-Time Contract | Remote | Ongoing Monthly Work</strong></p><p>We are looking for a short-form video editor with strong editorial judgment who can transform long-form conversational and podcast-style footage into engaging short-form content for Instagram Reels and TikTok.</p><p><br></p><p>This is not a role where timestamps and exact clips will always be provided. The ideal candidate can independently review raw footage, understand the conversation, identify the strongest moments, and determine what should become a piece of content.</p><p><br></p><p>Content primarily focuses on e-commerce, marketing, entrepreneurship, money, leadership, and business.</p><p><br></p>Monthly Workload<p>This is an <strong>ongoing monthly contract/project</strong>.</p><p>Each month, the editor can expect:</p><ul><li>Approximately <strong>1 batch of ~2 hours of raw conversational/podcast footage</strong></li><li>Independently review the full recording and identify strong short-form content opportunities</li><li>Turn the strongest moments into approximately <strong>20–30+ short-form videos</strong>, depending on the amount of usable content in each recording</li><li>Edit additional short-form paid ad creative as needed throughout the month</li><li>Complete occasional revisions or variations of existing creative</li></ul><p>The primary social content will be batch-created each month with the goal of producing enough content to support consistent posting throughout the month.</p><p><strong>Budget: $20–$25/hour</strong>, with the primary monthly content batch expected to require approximately <strong>8–10 hours of work</strong>. Additional ad-editing projects will be paid at the same hourly rate.</p><p><br></p>Responsibilities<ul><li>Review long-form footage and independently identify the strongest short-form moments</li><li>Recognize compelling hooks, opinions, stories, educational moments, humor, and high-potential social content</li><li>Identify when one longer conversation or answer contains multiple standalone pieces of content</li><li>Determine the strongest starting and ending points for each clip</li><li>Remove repetition, pauses, mistakes, and unnecessary tangents while preserving the creator's natural personality and speaking style</li><li>Add clean captions, natural jump cuts, strategic punch-ins/zooms, basic graphics, audio cleanup, and color correction as needed</li><li>Incorporate AI-generated questions before responses when appropriate</li><li>Recognize when a clip is stronger without the original question and should begin directly with the response</li><li>Edit additional paid social/ad creative as needed</li><li>Deliver organized, ready-to-post vertical videos</li></ul><p><br></p>Ideal Candidate<p>This role requires <strong>excellent English comprehension and strong editorial judgment</strong>.</p><p>We are not looking for someone who is only technically skilled at video editing. A major part of this role is being able to recognize <strong>what makes a moment worth posting without being told where to find it</strong>.</p><p>The ideal candidate:</p><ul><li>Is fluent or highly proficient in English</li><li>Understands American social media culture, humor, tone, and conversational language</li><li>Regularly consumes Instagram Reels, TikTok, podcasts, and short-form creator content</li><li>Understands hooks, retention, storytelling, and pacing</li><li>Is comfortable making creative decisions with minimal direction</li><li>Knows how to preserve personality rather than over-editing content</li><li>Is comfortable working with business, marketing, and e-commerce content</li><li>Is reliable with deadlines and communication</li></ul><p><br></p>Editing Style<p>The desired editing style is <strong>clean, modern, and relatively simple</strong>. This is not a heavy motion-graphics role.</p><p>The ideas, conversation, and creator's personality should remain the focus.</p><p>Editing should include clean captions, natural jump cuts, strategic punch-ins, strong pacing, basic audio/color correction, and minimal but intentional graphics or B-roll when useful.</p><p><br></p>Application Requirements<p>Please include:</p><ol><li>Three examples of short-form conversational or podcast content previously edited</li><li>Hourly rate</li><li>Estimated time required to review approximately 2 hours of raw conversational footage, identify the strongest moments, and edit approximately 20–30 short-form pieces</li><li>Examples of social media creators whose content/editing styles you currently follow or enjoy</li><li>Any experience editing paid social/ad creative</li></ol><p><strong>Selected candidates will complete a short paid editing test.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Candidates will receive a section of raw footage <strong>without timestamps</strong> and will be asked to independently identify and edit the strongest content opportunities.</p><p><br></p><p>The test will evaluate both technical editing ability and, importantly, the ability to recognize compelling short-form content.</p>