Social Video Editor - GitHub, Inc.
Remote
About the Job
Locations:In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
We're looking for a creative and adaptable Social Video Editor who understands how to communicate with developer audiences and work with our world-class engineering, developer relations, and marketing teams to create social video that is engaging and impactful. You’ll be a key player in building content across our channels, working independently and collaboratively with various teams to bring their visions to life, while also looking for ways to repurpose content we already have to help it resonate meaningfully with our diverse and global community.
Responsibilities:
Video Editing & Post-Production: Work creatively to craft compelling and engaging short-form social content that is optimized for various platforms, meets brand standards, and performs well with GitHub’s audience. Execute editorial duties with precision and finesse - this includes selecting and adding music, sound effects, graphics, text overlays, color grading, creating captions, and designing thumbnails.
Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with various teams to understand their social video needs and deliver high-quality content that meets their objectives. This includes participating in brainstorming sessions and providing creative input.
Content Repurposing: Identify opportunities to repurpose existing long-form video content into shorter, engaging edits for social media.
Maintain Brand Consistency: Ensure all social video content adheres to brand guidelines and maintains a consistent visual style.
Asset Management: Organize and manage video footage, audio files, and other multimedia assets effectively and efficiently. Ensure all content is backed up, cataloged, and easily accessible for future use. Demonstrate a solid understanding of post-production workflows and collaborative editing.
Editorial support: Ingest and organize media to prepare projects for editing or handoff. Source assets, create folder structures, project files, sync audio/visual assets, make selects. Ensure brand assets are used correctly and captions are accurate.
Social Video Optimization: Maintain a strong understanding of social video trends, best practices, and platform-specific requirements. Adapt video content to optimize performance on each platform. Track the performance of social videos and use metrics to provide guidance to partner teams on the types of video content that we should be creating for different platforms. Create A/B tests with social thumbnails to help optimize performance.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
5+ years experience in video production or related field
OR Bachelor's Degree in Film, Marketing, Advertising, or related field AND 3+ years experience in video production or related field
OR equivalent experience.
1+ years proven experience in creating engaging social video content.
2+ years of experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro & After Effects) and other social media editing tools.
Portfolio showcasing relevant social video work.
Preferred Qualifications:
Deep understanding of social media platforms and best practices.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Experience with transcribing, copyediting, generating, and editing captions.
Strong time management, organizational abilities, and expert attention to detail.
A passion for storytelling and visual communication.
Experience with basic video shooting, light motion graphics, and color grading.
Experience managing projects with other suppliers.
Compensation Range:The base salary range for this job is USD $79,500.00 - USD $210,700.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement:GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
