Video Editor

Job Description

Partnering with Aquent, you have the opportunity to join a leading global entertainment and media company as a Social Video Editor / Social Clipping Lead. This role focuses on producing engaging short-form video content for major social platforms while helping manage a high-volume editorial workflow. You'll work with creative and content teams to transform entertainment footage into compelling social clips, using advanced editing techniques and AI-assisted tools to improve production speed and quality.

We're looking for a hands-on social video editor with strong creative instincts, excellent Adobe Premiere Pro skills, and a deep understanding of what performs across TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X. You'll combine short-form editing with content review, workflow coordination, and AI-assisted production to help deliver timely, engaging content to digital audiences.

Social Video Editing & Creative Direction

• Edit and refine short-form social videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X using Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Identify compelling moments from longer entertainment content and transform them into engaging, platform-specific clips.
• Apply strong editorial judgment to pacing, storytelling, hooks, framing, captions, and visual presentation.
• Review social video content for quality, consistency, audience engagement, and platform best practices.
• Provide clear, constructive feedback on edits to maintain consistent creative standards.

Workflow Management & Production

• Manage and prioritize daily social video editing assignments across multiple content projects.
• Coordinate high-volume clip production while maintaining quality and meeting fast turnaround deadlines.
• Translate creative briefs into clear editing priorities and deliverables.
• Track production progress, manage revisions, and coordinate asset delivery with publishing teams.
• Help document and improve editorial workflows, processes, and production guidelines.

AI-Assisted Editing & Optimization

• Use AI-powered clipping and creative tools to accelerate video production and identify engaging content moments.
• Refine AI-generated clips through hands-on editing, ensuring strong storytelling and platform-specific quality.
• Identify opportunities to improve AI-assisted editing workflows, prompts, and production efficiency.
• Share feedback with product and technical teams to support ongoing improvements to creative tools.
• Support editors with best practices for editing, quality control, and efficient content production.

• 2+ years of professional experience in social video editing, short-form content creation, digital media, or social publishing.
• Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro proficiency with demonstrated hands-on video editing experience.
• Strong experience creating short-form social content for platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X.
• Demonstrated understanding of platform-specific editing techniques, audience retention, engagement, hooks, and pacing.
• Experience working in high-volume content production environments with quick turnaround times.
• Strong editorial judgment with the ability to identify engaging moments and create compelling clips from longer content.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools, automated video editing, or AI-powered content workflows.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with creative teams, manage editing priorities, and provide constructive feedback.
• Ability to work fully onsite in Los Angeles.

• Experience editing social content for entertainment, streaming, television, or digital media brands.
• Experience repurposing long-form entertainment footage into engaging short-form social clips.
• Familiarity with AI clipping tools, automated transcription, or generative AI production workflows.
• Experience coordinating editorial production queues or supporting other video editors.
• Experience developing editing guidelines, production processes, or creative workflows.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong short-form social editing, storytelling, and platform-specific content.