[Hiring] Short-Form Video Editor @Snowball

Role Description

We're looking for a short-form video editor who can turn a strong idea into something people can't help but keep watching. You'll work directly with our founder and Head of Content Marketing to shape the content that represents Snowball publicly. You’ll take our ideas about YouTube, storytelling, creativity, and the work we're doing with some of the world's biggest brands and turn them into sharp, visually distinctive short-form content.

• Turn ideas into visual stories.
• Take founder-led, scripted content and find the visual concept that makes each idea hit harder, feel clearer, and stay memorable.
• Build beyond the talking head.
• Use motion graphics, design, typography, UI, sourced footage, screenshots, imagery, music, and sound to create a world around what's being said.
• Make abstract ideas feel obvious.
• Find smart, visual ways to explain concepts around YouTube, media, business, storytelling, and creativity without making the content feel like a presentation.
• Create moments people want to keep watching.
• Use pacing, visual reveals, pattern changes, sound, and editorial judgment to earn attention rather than relying on endless jump cuts or effects.
• Find the visual before we hand it to you.
• Source the footage, imagery, references, and assets that make the story stronger instead of depending on a fully assembled asset folder.
• Know when to push and when to pull back.
• Not every second needs an effect. You'll make thoughtful decisions about where visual complexity adds something, and where restraint is more powerful.
• Help define Snowball's editing language.
• We're building this content engine now, which means you'll have the opportunity to help establish the visual conventions, recurring treatments, and creative ideas we continue using as we scale.
• Bring something to the table.
• We want editors who see opportunities we didn't see, pitch better solutions, and make the work stronger through the edit.
• Collaborate directly with the people shaping the brand.

Qualifications

• A portfolio that makes it clear you can do more than clean cuts, captions, and punch-ins.
• A strong instinct for visual storytelling. You can take a sentence, concept, or story beat and imagine how it should come alive on screen.
• Excellent motion graphics and design skills, with the ability to create visual treatments from scratch rather than work from finished assets.
• A strong sense of retention, pacing, rhythm, music, sound, and how all of those pieces work together to hold attention.
• Experience sourcing footage, images, screenshots, and other materials that make an edit richer.
• Good design taste and the ability to make information feel visually clear without overcomplicating it.
• The range to move between highly designed moments and simple, confident editing.
• The ability to understand an established reference or creative direction without simply copying it.
• Strong creative problem-solving instincts when the obvious edit isn't the best edit.
• Comfortable sharing ideas, receiving direct feedback, and working through multiple versions in pursuit of a better piece.
• The reliability and communication skills to work independently within a fast-moving remote team.
• Experience with After Effects or similar motion/design tools strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Obsessed with the question: What’s the most effective way to bring this idea to life?

Benefits

• Freelance | Remote | $500-$1000 per :60-second video depending on complexity, with potential for a monthly retainer.

Our Values

• Work hard, learn harder.
• Be effectively proactive.
• Overdeliver for clients.
• Be kind by being clear.
• A+ players only.