International Shorts Editor

Dhar Mann is hiring a remote International Shorts Editor to join the short-form post-production team at Changing Lives Productions. This role sits inside a high-output digital studio editing unscripted footage into 2 to 3 minute stories for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook Reels, with finished cuts regularly reaching tens of millions of viewers per video. It suits an editor who has worked in unscripted or documentary post-production and understands how to build narrative structure from raw, uncontrolled footage rather than a scripted assembly cut.

About the Role

The International Shorts Editor works within the Shorts creative team at Changing Lives Productions, the in-house studio behind one of the most-watched digital content operations in the world, with over 82 billion total views across platforms. The slate covers man-on-the-street giveaways, surprise moments, acts of kindness, and human-interest interviews, all requiring editorial judgment on structure, pacing, and emotional arc rather than simple chronological assembly. A typical day involves logging large amounts of unscripted footage, identifying the strongest story beats, building a first cut, and working through revisions with producers against platform performance goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and log hours of unscripted raw footage, identifying the strongest characters, reactions, and narrative moments that can carry a short-form story.
• Build 2 to 3 minute story edits with a clear hook, emotional escalation, and payoff, making structural decisions that may reorder or reconstruct footage from its original sequence.
• Craft opening hooks calibrated for short-form audience retention, using curiosity, withholding, and emotional setup within the first few seconds of each cut.
• Apply music, sound design, captions, and graphics to heighten emotional impact without overproducing moments that work because they feel authentic.
• Deliver alternate versions, including varied hooks and runtimes, to support creative and performance testing across platform distribution.
• Interpret producer feedback quickly and accurately while maintaining the narrative clarity and emotional integrity of each finished cut.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated experience editing unscripted, documentary, or short-form digital content with credits you can show.
• Fluency in professional non-linear editing software, including Premiere Pro or a comparable NLE used in a production post-production workflow.
• A strong editorial instinct for story structure, pacing, and audience retention specific to short-form video formats.
• Experience working with high-volume footage output and delivering polished cuts on tight turnarounds.
• Comfort collaborating remotely with a creative team across multiple revision rounds without losing sight of the original story intent.

Why This Role

Changing Lives Productions is the studio behind a creator ranked second on Forbes’ 2025 Top Creators list, with a monthly viewership exceeding one billion views, which means editors here are working at a scale most digital studios never reach. The short-form post-production team has direct influence over what gets published and how it performs, with editorial decisions carrying real creative weight rather than being overridden at every step. For an editor who wants to build a serious short-form documentary editing reel while working inside a genuinely high-volume operation, this remote International Shorts Editor position is a substantive credit.

Apply now for the International Shorts Editor role at Dhar Mann and bring your short-form storytelling instincts to one of the largest digital content studios operating today.