Rising Social-First Video Editor

Jobtailor is hiring a Rising Social-First Video Editor based in London, England. This role sits within the post-production workflow of a social content team, focused on delivering short-form edits across multiple platforms from brief through to final delivery. It suits an early-career editor who has already gotten their hands dirty with social content and wants structured mentorship alongside real editorial output.

About the Role

The Rising Social-First Video Editor works within an edit team that handles social-first content production, operating across the full post pipeline from proxy creation to platform-ready delivery. Day to day, this person cuts content in Adobe Premiere Pro, adds music, sound effects, subtitles, and graphics, and manages media in a collaborative environment using tools like Frame.io and Lucid Link. Senior editors and producers are in the room, which means there is genuine support while you build editorial instincts.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate storyboards and design concepts into platform-specific edits with short turnaround times, working across vertical and square formats as required by each social channel.
• Handle media management duties including ingesting, organising, and maintaining clear project structures to support clean collaborative handovers within the post-production workflow.
• Add music, sound effects, subtitles, and motion graphics to cuts, ensuring each element meets the delivery specifications of the target platform.
• Use Frame.io and Lucid Link as part of the review and remote collaboration process, keeping feedback cycles moving efficiently between editors and producers.
• Monitor social media trends and emerging creator formats to inform editorial decisions and bring relevant reference points into the team conversation.
• Implement revisions from producers and senior editors with a clear head, treating feedback as a technical and creative brief rather than a correction.

What You Bring

• Hands-on editing experience using Adobe Premiere Pro and the broader Adobe Creative Cloud suite, applied specifically to social content production.
• A working understanding of digital moving image formats and platform delivery requirements across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
• Strong organisational habits around project timelines, media folders, and file naming that hold up under real production pressure.
• Experience with After Effects or Photoshop is useful for this role, though not a requirement to apply.
• Genuine curiosity about social media trends and the type of content that actually drives audience engagement, not just what performed last year.

Why This Role

Jobtailor structures its editorial team so that junior editors work directly alongside senior talent, which means the learning curve here is steep in a useful way. The company works across social content production with clear post-production processes already in place, so a Rising Social-First Video Editor is stepping into a functional workflow rather than building one from scratch. London remains one of the most active markets for social-first content production, and this role puts you inside that pipeline early in your career.

Apply now for the Rising Social-First Video Editor position at Jobtailor and take the next step in your post-production career.