YouTube Video Editor

About the Client & Agency Partnership: Snowball Agency functions as the exclusive, premier content marketing and growth partner for an internationally recognized, top-tier design and technology platform—specifically driving global video strategy and community expansion across **Figma’s** official media networks. Backed by an internal team of YouTube experts generating over 27 million subscribers and 110 billion views worldwide, Snowball unifies advanced digital brand strategy with elite multimedia production. Our underlying client is an industry leader on an absolute mission to make software design, real-time wireframing, and interactive prototyping accessible to teams everywhere. Operating at the intersection of ultimate craft, creativity, and digital collaboration, this design-led platform helps modern engineering and product squads think more clearly, move faster, and build better things together securely.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly sophisticated, detail-oriented YouTube Video Editor to join our core global Creative division in a full-time independent contract capacity within the United States. In this narrative-driven post-production seat, you will claim absolute individual accountability for transforming raw project recordings and complex engineering tutorials into clear, highly intentional visual stories. Moving entirely away from slow, uninspired timeline assembly, you will collaborate tightly beside external producers, channel strategists, and brand creatives to refine pacing, establish rhythmic engagement models, and simplify abstract SaaS and interactive system concepts. This role demands a seasoned visual crafter who lives inside modern timeline parameters, commands an authoritative grasp of frame-by-frame asset organization, and possesses a profound passion for tools that support how humans express and deploy software ideas.

Key Responsibilities

• Long-Form Narrative Video Editing: Sculpt and execute long-form, YouTube-first digital video assets, maintaining strict structural pacing, concise thematic flow, and clear narrative throughlines from start to finish.
• Short-Form Derivative Curation: Conceptualize, slice, and optimize engaging vertical cutdowns, micro-assets, and short-form variations to maximize content lifecycle efficiency across multi-channel networks.
• Figma Product Feature Simplification: Interpret and illustrate high-level product design workflows, engineering features, and collaborative prototyping patterns to make instructional segments easy to follow.
• Advanced Audio & Sound Design: Mix and balance clear verbal dialogue tracks, layer intentional acoustic sound effects, and curate background music parameters to deepen audience immersion and retention metrics.
• Motion Graphics Integration: Embed, animate, and format custom typographical layouts, on-screen lower thirds, callout assets, and kinetic visual vectors natively using After Effects.
• Collaborative Workspaces Governance: Streamline multi-tier asset review feedback loops and ensure seamless real-time client validation management natively utilizing frame.io.
• Pristine Timeline Workflow Hygiene: Establish and maintain highly organized project folders, clean multi-cam nesting structures, and robust descriptive file metadata to support reliable, fast delivery windows.
• Strategic Content Ideation: Participate in asynchronous brainstorming sessions alongside YouTube growth experts to map out upcoming video formats, creative testing boundaries, and modern thumbnail hooks.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of verified professional history running advanced non-linear video editing, cinematic post-production, digital motion graphics design, or full-scale brand storytelling curation.
• An outstanding professional video portfolio or showreel demonstrating real structural story ownership, highly polished visual craft, and elite pacing instincts.
• Expert-tier technical proficiency navigating timeline configurations, multi-track cutting tools, and review extensions natively inside Premiere Pro and frame.io.
• Demonstrated experience editing high-performing educational, brand-centric, software-focused, or narrative-driven video layouts.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication mechanics, with a proven ability to interpret creative intentions accurately and execute adjustments inside fast-moving, remote sprint environments.
• Location Context: Full-time contract parameters open exclusively to qualified multimedia and post-production specialists permanently based anywhere within the United States to operate 100% remotely from home.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Direct experience creating high-impact visual media for prominent global technology, product design, collaboration software, or enterprise SaaS brands.
• Advanced production familiarity modeling complex visual transitions and multi-layered compositing inside After Effects.
• Familiarity with digital design patterns, vector grouping, or layout definitions utilized inside modern cloud-native design platforms like Figma.
• Active personal habit of studying macro digital audience engagement trends, CTR variables, and algorithmic retention physics across long-form streaming systems.

What We Offer

• Premium Independent Retainer Structure: Highly attractive, elite contractual remuneration established transparently between $7,000 – $9,000 USD per month, calibrated directly to evaluate your visual craft and editing authority.
• The exceptional professional canvas to directly direct, code-shape, and deploy the visual narratives fueling the global community growth of the world’s premier design platform.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters offering high lifestyle flexibility, complete execution trust, and zero physical office geographical friction across the United States.
• Integration into an elite network of A+ creative players and media innovators who live by core principles of proactive execution, clear communication, and uncompromised quality standards.