Video Editor

Video Editor / Senior Video Editor

Location:

Delhi NCR (On-site)
· Type:
Full-time
Team:
Creative/Production
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Reports to:

Director – Social & Brand Strategy

Role Description
This is a full-time, on-site role for a Senior Video Editor at Brand Abstract. You will own end-to-end post-production for luxury hospitality, lifestyle, fashion, and real-estate brands—cutting high-impact reels, brand films, campaign edits, and motion assets  ideal candidate is tool-savvy, AI-enabled, fast, and brand-right, with impeccable taste and the ability to translate strategy into scroll-stopping visuals.

Key Responsibilities
Edit short-form and long-form videos (reels, ads, brand films, interviews, UGC, case studies) with fast turnarounds.
Build narrative flow: select cuts, pacing, rhythm, transitions, SFX, sound design, color, motion typography.
Create platform-native outputs for Instagram, Linked In, You Tube, and Meta Ads (ratios, hooks, subtitles, thumbnails).
Use AI tools to accelerate workflows: rough cuts, transcript-based edits, VO cloning, upscaling, denoise, rotoscoping, background removal, asset generation.
Collaborate with strategy, social, design, and production to translate briefs into on-brand edits.
Maintain a clean asset pipeline (naming, proxies, versioning, backups) and deliver exports in required specs/codecs.
Build and maintain preset packs (LUTs, audio, motion templates) for repeatable quality.
When needed, support on-set with shot planning, references, and continuity.

Tooling (You should be hands-on with most)
Editing:
Adobe Premiere Pro / Final Cut Pro / DaVinci Resolve
Motion & GFX:
After Effects (essential), Motion, basic Cinema4D/Blender a plus
Audio:
Audition / Fairlight; music licensing workflows
Color:
DaVinci Resolve (preferred) / Lumetri; LUT management
Subtitles/Transcripts:
Auto-captions (Premiere/Resolve), Cap Cut Pro, Descript
AI & Gen-AI:
Runway, Pika, Cap Cut AI, Descript, Topaz, Stable Video/Animate Diff/Kling (nice to have), Midjourney/Stable Diffusion for plates
Collab & Storage:
Frame.io, Google Drive, Dropbox, Trello/Asana/Click Up

Must-Haves
3–6+ years agency/post house experience editing for luxury/lifestyle/fashion/hospitality.
A portfolio that shows taste, timing, typography, and brand feel.
Speed with quality: ability to turn around daily edits without sacrificing finesse.
Strong understanding of hooks, first 3-seconds impact, and social storytelling.
Comfort with sound design, color correction/grade, and motion text.
Proven use of AI to speed up workflows (object removal, background gen, re-timing, voice cleanup, auto-versioning).
Excellent communication, feedback handling, and teamwork.

Nice-to-Have
Basic 3D (Blender/C4D), Spline, or Unreal for simple product/space shots.
On-set exposure: shot lists, camera basics, codecs, proxies.

KPIs (What success looks like)
Speed:
On-time delivery ≥ 95% across weekly sprints.
Quality:
Internal QA pass rate ≥ 95% (brand voice, grammar in supers, color/audio).
Impact:
Content performance lift (retention %, completion rates, CTR on video ads).
Efficiency:
Rework on approved briefs ≤ 3%; AI/preset utilization to reduce edit time.
Organization: 100% compliance with file naming, versioning, and handoff checklists.

Qualifications
Bachelor's in Film/Media/Communications or equivalent experience.
Certifications (Adobe/Blackmagic/Meta Creative Strategy) are a plus.
Prior social-first portfolio is essential (share links).