Vertical Video Editor; News

Title:

Vertical Video Editor (News)

Schedule Format

- Location:

Hybrid
- San Francisco

Pay Information: $79,828 - $99,785
Temporary: 1-Year Limited Term, Full Time

The Vertical Video Editor is an experienced video editor responsible for creating compelling, accurate, and platform-native vertical video content for KQED’s newsroom. Working closely with the Social Video Producer, reporters, editors, and other newsroom colleagues, this position will transform reporting, interviews, field footage, archival materials, graphics, and other source material into engaging short-form video for platforms including Tik Tok, Instagram Reels, and You Tube Shorts.

The Vertical Video Editor will be a creative editorial partner to the Social Video Producer, collaborating from story development through final delivery to determine the most effective visual approach, story structure, pacing, graphics, sound, and platform-specific execution. The role will help develop repeatable vertical video formats and editing practices that allow KQED News to produce high-quality social video efficiently and consistently.

This position requires strong editorial judgment, excellent storytelling instincts, and advanced technical and creative editing skills. The ideal candidate understands how audiences consume video on mobile and social platforms and can translate journalistic reporting into concise, visually compelling stories without compromising accuracy, context, or KQED’s editorial standards.

The Vertical Video Editor will work within post-production workflows established by the Senior Video Editor and collaborate with Digital Video, Audience Development, and News leadership to improve vertical video storytelling based on audience behavior and performance data.

KQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling.

We value the contributions of marginalized people in society — including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people — and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.

KQED Code of Ethics https://www.kqed.org/about/code-ethics

The mission that drives us:

KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.

This role will work hybrid between working in KQED's newly renovated headquarters and working remotely.

• Edit high-quality vertical video content for KQED News across Tik Tok, Instagram Reels, You Tube Shorts, and other emerging vertical video platforms.
• Edit video from a wide range of sources, including original field footage, interviews, reporter standups, user-generated content, archival footage, photographs, screen recordings, graphics, and third-party materials.
• Shape edits for mobile-first viewing, using strong hooks, pacing, visual storytelling, captions, graphics, sound, and other techniques designed for vertical platforms.
• Create captions, text treatments, lower thirds, graphics, and other visual elements appropriate for vertical video platforms.
• Perform sound editing and mixing, color correction, basic motion graphics, and other post-production functions required to complete high-quality video.
• Source and…