Hospitality VIDEO EDITOR & Content Producer at Haute Dolci

Location:

Leicester Salary: £26,000–£31,000 per annum, depending on experience Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Experience:

Minimum 3 years' relevant professional experience Hospitality experience:
Essential and must be verifiable Travel:
Regular venue visits, including Bristol and Watford

Turn great footage into content people cannot stop watching. We are looking for a highly creative Video Editor & Content Producer to lead post‑production across a portfolio of exciting hospitality brands:
Haute Dolci Leicester Haute Dolci Bristol Haute Dolci Watford Haute Privé Leicester Naan Staap Leicester Your primary responsibility will be professional video editing and post‑production, with content shooting as an important secondary capability. You'll work closely with our Videographer & Content Producer to turn high‑quality raw footage into fast, engaging, polished and commercially effective content across Tik Tok, Instagram, You Tube and digital advertising.

We don't simply want someone who knows how to operate editing software. We want someone who understands why people watch, why they keep watching, and why they share.

• Editing high-impact Instagram Reels, Tik Toks and You Tube Shorts
• Creating premium food and hospitality edits
• Building powerful opening hooks
• Controlling pacing and rhythm to maximise retention
• Selecting the strongest shots from large volumes of footage
• Professional colour correction and grading
• Audio mixing and sound design
• Music selection and synchronisation
• Dynamic captions and subtitles
• Motion graphics
• Speed ramps and transitions where appropriate
• Product reveals
• Food close-ups and sensory edits
• Event highlight videos
• Promotional videos
• Influencer/collaboration content
• Long‑form footage repurposed into multiple short‑form assets
• Creating different versions for organic and paid campaigns
• Formatting creative correctly for different social platforms

YOU'LL EDIT FOR PERFORMANCE, NOT JUST APPEARANCE Beautiful editing is important, but commercial content has to perform. You'll understand concepts including:
Hook → Hold → Payoff and be able to recognise: weak opening frames, unnecessary dead space, poor pacing, weak shot selection, excessive transitions, insufficient pattern interruption, inadequate captions, and opportunities to improve watch‑time. You'll regularly create multiple edits from the same shoot, enabling us to test different hooks, formats, lengths and creative approaches. You should be someone who can watch a 45-second edit and immediately think: “This would perform better at 19 seconds, starting with that shot.”

• Attend scheduled content shoots
• Shoot professional video and photography
• Capture food, drinks, venues and events
• Film vertical/social-first content
• Understand lighting, framing and camera settings
• Capture supplementary/B-roll content
• Run shoots independently when the lead videographer is unavailable
• Understand what footage an editor needs before leaving a shoot

Previous professional experience producing content for the hospitality or food & beverage sector is mandatory. Relevant experience could include:

• Restaurants
• Dessert brands
• Cafés
• Hotels
• Food brands
• Bars
• Event venues
• Catering
• Premium lifestyle/hospitality businesses

You must be able to demonstrate this through a portfolio and verifiable previous work.

• Minimum 3 years' professional editing/content experience
• Verifiable hospitality/food & beverage experience — essential
• A strong professional editing showreel
• Advanced short-form video editing ability
• Excellent sense of pacing and storytelling
• Strong colour-grading skills
• Good audio and sound-design skills
• Understanding of motion…