[Hiring] NHL, YouTube Video Editor @IMG

Role Description

• Own the end-to-end edit and delivery process for the NHL Europe and NHL Deutschland YouTube channels, from brief through to final export, quality control and delivery.
• Edit long-form and short-form content, including features, interviews, documentaries, archive-led stories, player content and game-related edits tailored for YouTube, including Shorts.
• Have a strong understanding of pacing, hooks, retention, watchability, aspect ratios, safe areas, thumbnails, titles and opening sequences.
• Support live streams and live or near-live content activity, including the preparation of assets, cutdowns and supporting video around games, events and major NHL moments.
• Ability to meet short turnarounds and responding quickly to live, reactive and near-live gameplay.
• Use motion graphics, animation and visual effects to aid compelling storytelling.
• Create and manage German and English subtitles, captions and on-screen text, ensuring language accuracy, timing, readability and accessibility across long-form and short-form edits.
• Source and select clips independently from approved NHL footage, archive, supplied materials, creator content and other rights-cleared sources, maintaining clear provenance and following agreed rights workflows.
• Work with NHL.com International teams to coordinate edits, footage, content production, approvals, delivery requirements and publishing priorities across the international operation.
• Work with hosts, presenters, creators and on-camera talent where required, shaping edits that bring out personality, clarity and audience value.
• Maintain clean, organised and repeatable post-production workflows, including media management, version control, naming conventions, exports, backups and archiving project files.
• Contribute ideas for new formats, series and editorial approaches that can build repeat viewing and strengthen the NHL’s video presence in Europe and Germany.
• Stay current with YouTube video formats, conventions, audience behavior and emerging platform features.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable professional experience as a Video Editor, ideally within sports, media, entertainment, broadcast, agency or publisher environments.
• High-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud software, particularly Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• A strong portfolio showing long-form and short-form editing across digital and social platforms in the form of a showreel or website.
• Professional-level German, with strong written and spoken English. German fluency is essential for this role.
• Practical experience with subtitles, captions and on-screen text in German and English, including timing, quality control and accessibility considerations.
• Strong editorial judgement, storytelling ability, pacing and sound design, with an eye for moments that make sports videos compelling.
• Experience with both 16:9 long-form video and 9:16 vertical short-form content, with an understanding of how to repackage longer stories into shorter clips.
• Ability to source, review and select footage independently, including archive and supplied footage, while respecting rights, approvals and usage restrictions.
• Experience with audio mixing, colour correction, basic grading, proxies, codecs and delivery specifications.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, deadline-led environment where priorities can change quickly.
• A genuine passion for ice hockey and strong interest in the NHL, its players, teams, history and international fanbase.

Skills and Abilities

• Fast, calm and decisive when working to short deadlines or responding to live and reactive opportunities.
• Creative, curious and able to make strong editorial decisions without losing sight of the brief.
• Technically rigorous, with a high standard for picture, sound, graphics, subtitles, exports and file archiving.
• Collaborative and comfortable working with clients, producers, account teams, hosts, creators, designers and other editors.
• Self-sufficient in sourcing clips, solving production problems and progressing work with appropriate communication and escalation.
• Able to manage a full-time workload across two active channels while keeping output consistent.
• Comfortable receiving and reacting to feedback, iterating quickly and communicating with wider NHL and IMG Digital teams.
• Meticulous attention to detail across media management, project files, versioning, exports, captions, graphics and final delivery.

Desirable

• Experience working directly on a sports rights-holder, league, team, broadcaster, publisher or agency account.
• Experience with live streams, live production workflows, live or near-live editing, or event coverage.
• Experience working with hosts, presenters, creators, interviewees or other on-camera talent.
• Videography experience, including camera operation, lighting, location sound.
• Proficiency in graphic-based Adobe software such as Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Experience creating motion graphics packages, lower thirds, explainers, data-led visuals and reusable After Effects, Premiere Pro or Photoshop templates.
• Experience with YouTube Studio, video publishing, thumbnails, metadata, end screens, playlists and basic video SEO.
• Additional European language skills or experience localising video for different markets.

Working Conditions

• This is a permanent position.
• Working hours are 9:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday.
• This is a remote position based in Germany.
• Expected to provide support out of usual working hours at times as Executives travel or attend events.
• Adapting to use of new systems and technology where appropriate.
• German language fluency essential.