Video Editor

Role overview

Edit social-first video content with a focus on how it performs in people’s feeds. This freelance role combines strong post-production craft with continual iteration: shaping hooks, pacing, and structure for attention, then adapting creative for platform formats and audience response.

Responsibilities

- Turn raw footage into polished videos optimized for platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. - Refine openings, pacing, structure, and edits to support views, engagement, shares, and audience retention. - Iterate and remix content to improve performance, using platform results to guide creative adjustments. - Keep up with platform conventions, emerging formats, creator trends, and editing approaches. - Contribute ideas in brainstorms and project kickoffs, while helping carry concepts through execution and testing. - Work with cross-functional teammates on quick-turn requests and tight deadlines; share editing and performance practices with creators and other creative colleagues.

Requirements

- Three to five years of professional creative experience and a portfolio or record of making content across media or platforms. - Demonstrated video editing experience, ideally in advertising, digital media, or a related field. - Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills, especially Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop. - Ability to produce complete video and motion design work from start to finish. - Strong understanding of social platform practices and performance measures. - Self-directed, accountable, and collaborative, with the ability to work well across teams.

Benefits and work setup

- Freelance engagement based in Malaysia. - Work in a fast-moving, experimental creative environment focused on testing ideas and solving business problems.