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• Position: Sales Development Representative (Hybrid | U.S. Hours)
• Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Department: Business Operations
• Type: Full-time

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Our client is an innovative gaming studio building a new generation of cross-platform multiplayer games. With a strong focus on creativity, user acquisition, and data-driven growth, they seek a Video Editor who combines storytelling with analytical thinking to produce compelling video content that performs at scale.

Location: Remote (Work-from-home), Full-time, 9 AM - 5 PM EST

Role Overview: As the Performance Marketing Video Editor, you will craft high-impact video assets for paid media channels including Meta, YouTube, and TikTok. Working closely with growth marketers, creative strategists, and performance analysts, you’ll produce and iterate on ads that drive conversions. A strong understanding of A/B testing, thumb-stopping creative principles, and post-production workflows is essential. This role suits someone who thrives where creative expression meets performance optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce and edit short-form performance videos for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other growth channels.
• Collaborate with creative strategists and growth marketers to develop ad concepts aligned with campaign goals.
• Iterate on winning creatives using A/B testing data, optimizing for metrics like CTR, CVR, and ROAS.
• Maintain a scalable creative production process, creating templates and systems for rapid experimentation.
• Stay informed on performance trends in mobile and gaming ads, analyzing top creatives to inspire new ideas.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 3+ years editing performance-driven video ads.
• Proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other editing tools.
• Strong grasp of A/B testing, ad metrics, and conversion optimization.
• Experience creating assets for mobile games or consumer apps is a plus.
• Ability to translate performance data into creative decisions.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, iterative environment with quick turnaround times.
• Strong visual storytelling, pacing, and motion design skills.

Application Process: To be considered for this role, you need to:

• Fill in the application form
• Record a video showcasing your skill sets

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

Industries: Marketing Services

We're looking for a skilled and fast Video Editor to help create engaging short-form Reels and long-form YouTube videos for a growing personal brand in the digital agency space.

We’re currently re-branding and plan to make a big push on content. Your work will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people each month via organic and paid media. If you want to be part of a growing team that is passionate about content - this is for you.

This is a fully remote position , and you must have your own editing setup.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Primary: Editing short-form content to be turned into Reels (30–60 seconds) for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts (same video, different outputs)

• Currently there is a video editor specifically for YouTube, you may work with them when there is a backlog of content

• Adding captions that emphasize key words and ideas for social media impact

• Applying a strong sense of rhythm, timing, and storytelling

• Delivering a high volume of content efficiently and quickly (you’re quick and polished)

• Cadence of deliverables:

• We are looking for up to 20+ Reels/short-form content pieces per week (sub 1-min)

  1. Two (2) long form YouTube videos per week. (15-25 min)
     

Must-Have Skills:

• Proficiency in editing software - please include your preferences.

• Experience or willing to learn the ins and outs of Riverside for initial video content production (can use it in conjunction with other software)

• We will tag or clip different section of the videos from client calls that need to be pulled out and put together into short clips from social media

• Proven experience editing content for social media (show us your best work!)

• Strong grasp of hooks , pacing, and retention strategies

• The ability to re-cut video content to make it higher performing

• Fluent in English with strong contextual awareness

• Must be able to add our source b-roll to be edited into clips

• Strong understanding of new AI tools and how to use them for video production

• Ability to work independently and make smart editing choices

• Communication via Slack and email with our team

• Your own computer and software capable of high-quality video editing
  

You must be able to produce content quickly. Understanding that social media needs content that is timely and punchy. We are looking for short-form videos that need minimal edits to start with the ability to scale to more edits over time.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Proficiency in Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere

• Experience editing for thought leaders, creators, or agency content

• Experience working with other social media teams

• Experience working with other North American businesses timezones and culture

This role will liaise directly with the social media manager for content production schedules and timing.

Requirements

• You should possess a keen, hard-earned storytelling sense, the ability to think critically and maintain high-level perspective from within the fray, and a nose for how Cali & Kira should respond to news.
• You should also have good taste (and the means to manifest it), flexibility, grace, understanding and the ability to calmly respond to, synthesize and execute on feedback, sometimes urgently.
• Your ideal skill base would be wrought from experience on post-production in a digital news, social media, nonfiction or nonprofit media production environment with high output and tight deadlines.
• The ability to do some medium-duty motion graphics and a history of fanatical pursuit of one or more of our sports and/or deep engagement with grassroots environmental activism is requisite.
• Understanding of footage and music licensing, releases and permits.
• Timeliness - Work efficiently, on deadline, and within budget, in a style consistent with established standards.
• Inclusive: deeply experienced in collaborating with others across difference and bringing in new perspectives and underrepresented narratives through film and digital mediums.
• Detail-oriented: Very astute navigating technology and incredibly organized managing many small details.
• 4+ Years of experience working in a deadline-focused production environment, namely digital media, social media, news, nonfiction television, nonprofit media and/or journalism.
• Experience in editing short form video for social media platforms.
• Experience editing pieces that are audio-only, working with enhanced audio slideshows.
• Extensive post-production experience, including incorporating graphics onscreen, quick-turn color-grading, dialog editing, sound design and audio mixing.
• Proven track record of great, public facing work.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
• Working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Extreme attention to detail and organizational practices.

Responsibilities

• You will also edit some internal-only videos and will likely be called on to save the day in occasional triage situations.
• Your projects will be consistent with the established style and brand standards of Cali & Kira.
• Edit and craft short-form video and multimedia projects on quick timelines in collaboration with internal — and occasionally external — teams (i.e. video producers, content, category writer-editors and photo).
• Edit internal-only videos (global sales meeting assets, PR assets, HR assets).
• Follow environmental, activism and sport-related news and help determine, in collaboration with producers, category editors and the content team whether and how Patagonia should respond.
• Work with reporters and writers, including ambassadors, category editors and freelancers to bring written pieces to life in other media.
• Help determine what platform(s) best serve the stories we’re telling and how best to show up there, then execute on that direction.
• Work efficiently, on deadline, and within budget, in a style consistent with established standards.
• Efficiently and gracefully manage multiple projects at a time.
• Collaborative - As Yvon Chouinard writes in Let My People Go Surfing, “Our best efforts are collaborative, and the Patagonia culture rewards the ensemble player while it barely tolerates those who need the limelight.”
• Integrity/Credibility - Take a no-offense, solutions-based approach to synthesize and implement rounds of critical notes from a variety of stakeholders, often on short notice.
• Problem Solving - Take a creative, flexible approach to projects.

What You’ll Be Working On

As Contract Digital Media Editor, you will be responsible for crafting and editing smart, useful, sometimes funny, always compelling, high production value multimedia storytelling assets on short timelines in cooperation with internal video producers, community managers, category writer-editors and the content team. You will also edit some internal-only videos and will likely be called on to save the day in occasional triage situations. All of this in the interest of inciting action on behalf of our home planet and inspiring more people to help save it. Your projects will be consistent with the established style and brand standards of Cali & Kira.

We have an opportunity available for a video editor at our company, Synergy Video Productions.

Minimum of five years' experience in corporate video editing is a must. 

What you will be doing:

• Video editing, motion graphics, social media content
• Drivers licence and own transportation is a must 
• Must live in Pretoria, preferably the east 

Please do not apply if the following non- negotiables are not met:

• Must live in Pretoria East
• Must have your own transport and valid drivers license
• Must have worked with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop before
• Must have a qualification in Video Editing OR produce examples of work to show your skills
• Must be willing to learn, have a great attitude and willing to help where needed
• Must be a person of excellence and on time, every time! 

Requirements

• Must have experience with Adobe Premiere CC, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition
• We do not work on Mac/Final Cut. Experience in Premiere is an absolute must.
• Must have basic Photoshop skills
• Must have own transport and be willing to travel with you own car
• Presentable and professional at all times
• MUST have a great attitude and be willing to learn
• MUST be willing to work overtime
• MUST be able to take responsibility for projects and meet deadlines no matter what

We're looking for a skilled and fast Video Editor to help create engaging short-form Reels and long-form YouTube videos for a growing personal brand in the digital agency space.

We’re currently re-branding and plan to make a big push on content. Your work will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people each month via organic and paid media. If you want to be part of a growing team that is passionate about content - this is for you.

This is a fully remote position , and you must have your own editing setup.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Primary: Editing short-form content to be turned into Reels (30–60 seconds) for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts (same video, different outputs) 

• Currently there is a video editor specifically for YouTube, you may work with them when there is a backlog of content

• Adding captions that emphasize key words and ideas for social media impact

• Applying a strong sense of rhythm, timing, and storytelling

• Delivering a high volume of content efficiently and quickly (you’re quick and polished)

• Cadence of deliverables: 

• We are looking for up to 20+ Reels/short-form content pieces per week (sub 1-min)

  1. Two (2) long form YouTube videos per week. (15-25 min)