
Role Overview
We are looking for expert video editors and storytellers to create short-form video edits for our clients short-form content accounts (TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Youtube Shorts) and our Snapchat shows.
Specific experience we are looking for:
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Sports storytelling (bonus if cricket),
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General expert short-form video editing,
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Video script writing.
Role Deliverables
- Passionate about creating visually engaging stories.
- Understand how to create an engaging story with a fast paced style that retains viewers,
- Constantly thinking about how to tell better stories and improve on past versions.
- Write scripts detailing stories in an engaging fast-paced style.
- Ideate topics to cover,
- Research relevant topics,
- Identify best footage to use.
- Work with team members to establish an engaging short-form content style for videos.
- Ideate and develop an engaging video style,
- Conduct research into the shortform content space to understand what content styles and formats performs well.
- Edit videos.
- Compile story recordings, photos, and videos and create an engaging video to specifications,
- Incorporate feedback on videos from team members,
- Write out all subtitles in an engaging style,
- Ensure the consistent high quality output of content,
- Produce cutdowns of videos for additional platforms e.g. TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook, and Youtube Shorts where needed.
- Collaborate with team member(s) to ideate the strategic direction for content created based on platform insights and video performance analytics.
- Regular refinement and innovation of content.
- Work hard to meet all deadlines.
- Work hard to deliver daily video content to a high standard.
Role Logistics
Skills and Experience
- Excellent video editing skills and storyteller with experience in short-form content.
- At least 2 years experience video editing using software such as Adobe Premier, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, or Davinci Resolve.
- 1 year experience with motion graphics editing on Adobe After Effects.
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Fluent english.
Don’t Buy Media Team Qualities
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Excellent communicator.
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Innovator who findings new, engaging ways to visually tell stories.
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Strong appetite for learning.
Interview stages.
- Interview.
- Test: 30s video edit.
- Role offer.
About Us
Don’t Buy Media is a Gen Z media start-up. We build Gen Z community by Gen Z across Gen Z’s platforms for brands and ourselves. Visit dontbuymedia.com for more information.
Apply
If interested please send the following to hiring@dontbuymedia.com in english:
- Title your email stating what specific experience you have, e.g. sports storytelling, general video editing, or script writing.
- A sentence on why you’re the best fit for this role.
- Provide links to as many videos listed below as possible:
a.Your favourite video you’ve created,
b.Your most technically advanced (using after effects or animation),
c.Your best performing short-form video,
d.Your best video on Snapchat.
- Your CV.