Video Editor & Motion Designer

Responsibilities

• Edit long-form recorded footage into tight, high-retention videos
• Improve pacing, structure, and clarity while preserving the speaker's natural delivery
• Create and integrate motion graphics (lower thirds, callouts, simple explainer sequences, UI highlights, transitions)
• Add B-roll, overlays, and on-screen text where it improves understanding
• Handle audio cleanup, leveling, and general sound polish
• Produce rough cuts and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Deliver final exports optimized for YouTube and other channels
• Maintain a consistent style and quality bar across multiple brands and projects
• Improve our workflow over time (templates, presets, reusable motion systems)

Requirements

• Proven experience editing YouTube videos or long-form educational content
• Strong editorial judgment: pacing, structure, clarity, and storytelling
• Motion design ability (After Effects or equivalent) for clean, modern, functional animation
• High attention to detail across cuts, timing, audio, and on-screen text
• Strong taste: you know what looks modern vs outdated
• Comfortable taking feedback and iterating quickly
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistently
• Tools
• You can use your preferred tools, but most of our workflow is compatible with:
• Descript
• Premiere Pro
• After Effects
• Frame.io
• Bonus points (not required)
• Experience editing SaaS, B2B, or product-led content
• Ability to create a reusable motion system for a channel (titles, lower thirds, callouts, transitions)
• Thumbnail design experience
• Familiarity with retention editing principles for YouTube
• Experience working with founders and subject matter experts
• How to Apply
• Please send:
• 2-4 examples you're proud of (YouTube links preferred). We are looking for ones that match (or are similar to) the styles of the 7 examples provided here .
• A short note about your role in each project (editing only vs editing + motion)
• Your typical turnaround time for a 10-20 minute video

Benefits

Additional Information

We're hiring a Video Editor & Motion Designer to join our team and turn recorded footage (tutorials, case studies, webinars, and talking-head content) into clean, engaging, publish-ready videos. You'll work across two types of projects: #1 - ScaleMath Studios Our in-house video content and YouTube channel. This includes our podcast . #2 - Advisory & Services Video and content assets we produce for companies we work with. Here are examples of our current styles: https://scalemath.com/video-examples While we will welcome improvements to this style over time, please do not apply if you are not comfortable producing videos in the same style as any of the 7 videos on this page. This role is for someone who cares deeply, to the point of obsession, about: Attention to detail Pacing Clarity Polish Viewer comprehension Using motion graphics to support the story/message (not distract from it)

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