NHL, YouTube Video Editor

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Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Own the end-to-end edit and delivery process for the NHL Europe and NHL Deutschland You Tube channels, from brief through to final export, quality control and delivery.
• Edit long-form and short-form content, including features, interviews, documentaries, archive-led stories, player content and game-related edits tailored for You Tube, including Shorts.
• Have a strong understanding of pacing, hooks, retention, watchability, aspect ratios, safe areas, thumbnails, titles and opening sequences.
• Support live streams and live or near-live content activity, including the preparation of assets, cutdowns and supporting video around games, events and major NHL moments.
• Ability to meet short turnarounds and responding quickly to live, reactive and near-live gameplay.
• Use motion graphics, animation and visual effects to aid compelling storytelling.
• Create and manage German and English subtitles, captions and on-screen text, ensuring language accuracy, timing, readability and accessibility across long-form and short-form edits.
• Source and select clips independently from approved NHL footage, archive, supplied materials, creator content and other rights-cleared sources, maintaining clear provenance and following agreed rights workflows.
• Work with  International teams to coordinate edits, footage, content production, approvals, delivery requirements and publishing priorities across the international operation.
• Work with hosts, presenters, creators and on-camera talent where required, shaping edits that bring out personality, clarity and audience value.
• Maintain clean, organised and repeatable post-production workflows, including media management, version control, naming conventions, exports, backups and archiving project files.
• Contribute ideas for new formats, series and editorial approaches that can build repeat viewing and strengthen the NHL’s video presence in Europe and Germany.
• Stay current with You Tube video formats, conventions, audience behavior and emerging platform features.

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrable professional experience as a Video Editor, ideally within sports, media, entertainment, broadcast, agency or publisher environments.
• High-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud software, particularly Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• A strong portfolio showing long-form and short-form editing across digital and social platforms in the form of a showreel or website.
• Professional-level German, with strong written and…