Short-Form Video Editor, YouTube & Social

Short-Form Video Editor, You Tube & Social

Location:

Frisco, TX

Type:
Full-Time

Reports To:

Lead Editor & CCO

Compensation: $65,000 - $80,000

Icon Global Media is a media company and creative studio built to help talent, athletes, celebrities, and brands create content and IP people actually care about. We bring together strategy, ideation, creative development, production, post-production, and platform expertise across You Tube, social media, branded content, and digital-first media. Our goal is simple: create the best content possible and have a lot of fun doing it.

The Short-Form Video Editor, You Tube & Social is responsible for creating highly engaging social media content based on provided concepts, scripts, and brand guidelines. In this role you will produce work for clients such as Bryson DeChambeau and other brand partners and talent.

For this role, we are looking for someone who understands storytelling, pacing, retention, audience psychology, and how to turn footage into videos people actually want to watch. In this role, you will work closely with our lead editor and project leads. Where you will share and improve your skills, as well as communicate to improve your proficiency in video editing.

In this role, you should be comfortable handling foundational post-production work which includes but is not limited to: organizing footage, syncing audio, and managing project files. You should also be capable of more advanced creative editing responsibilities including: story structure, pacing, sound design, color correction/grading, graphics, and any other elements required to create impactful content.

The right person for this role lives and breathes short-form content! You study videos, editing techniques, hooks, pacing, formats, audience behavior, and analytics because you care about getting better, making top-of-the-line viral content, and making a huge impact in the digital space. Lastly, this person aligns with the culture and goals of Icon Global Media.

• Ingest, organize, sync, label, and manage footage, audio, project files, and assets when needed
• Shape videos around a strong, clear storyline while intentionally amplifying key engagement drivers to create top-performing social content.
• Build edits that feel native to each platform, with strong pacing, reactions, tension, humor, emotional beats, and viewer payoff
• Rework long-form videos into short-form edits that feel intentional, not like random cutdowns
• Add on-screen graphics, visual effects, transitions, subtitles, music, sound effects, and other editing elements to enhance viewer experience
• Perform audio cleanup, leveling, mixing, and polish
• Prepare final exports, maintain clean project organization, and follow Icon’s workflow systems, naming conventions, and post-production processes

• Use performance data to understand what worked, what did not, and how future edits can improve
• Stay current with editing styles, creator trends, sports content, challenge formats, and platform changes
• Analyze top-performing creators and channels to understand what is working and why
• Review your own edits before handoff to catch errors, technical issues, and missed opportunities.
• Ensure audio is synced and clean, visuals are polished, graphics are accurate, color is consistent, and final exports meet or bring up the channel standard
• Collaborate with the lead editor and project leads to improve each video
• Bring strong creative ideas to the table and stay proactive instead of waiting for a task list
• Adapt your style to fit the channel, talent, video concept, and performance goals

• 3+ years of experience in video editing for social…