Video Jobs in Decatur, GA (NOW HIRING)

SUMMARY

The Senior Video Editor is a highly advanced Adobe Creative Cloud practitioner with expert level proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. These are the primary tools used for all editorial and motion graphics work, and this role is expected to operate at an expert level in both, building complex timelines, advanced animations, templates and highly efficient workflows.

The Senior Video Editor leads the editorial and post production execution of video content for the three core Kids2 brands with a focus on lifestyle storytelling, graphic and motion driven videos and social first content. This role is a master of the Kids2 brands in motion, ensuring every asset is visually on brand, culturally relevant and tailored to platform specific behaviors and trends.

The Senior Video Editor combines advanced editorial craft with strong graphic and motion capabilities, deep fluency in social media and a constant pulse on digital culture. This position helps translate brand and campaign strategies into best in class video content that resonates with our core demographic and drives engagement across channels. The Senior Video Editor also effectively utilizes AI driven tools to enhance workflows, accelerate editing and explore new creative possibilities while maintaining brand and quality standards.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Brand and Creative Excellence

• Serve as a key guardian of the Kids2 brands in video and motion, ensuring all edits, graphics and treatments are aligned with brand guidelines, tone and positioning.

• Lead the creation of lifestyle, product and brand films that emotionally connect with caregivers and families and elevate the overall creative quality of Kids2 video content.

• Concept and execute graphic and motion driven videos including text driven, animation heavy and mixed media formats that clearly communicate product benefits and brand stories.

• Develop and refine repeatable visual systems, templates and toolkits to ensure consistency and efficiency across platforms and campaigns.

Social First and Platform Specific Content

• Act as a subject matter expert on social video formats and best practices across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and emerging platforms.

• Proactively identify and interpret cultural, social and content trends and translate them into relevant, on brand video concepts and executions.

• Edit and adapt content specifically for social feeds, Stories, Reels, Shorts and paid social units, optimizing for attention, retention and engagement.

• Partner closely with Social and Digital teams to test creative variations, incorporate performance learnings and iterate quickly.

Editorial, Post Production and AI Driven Workflow

• Own the editorial process from ingest through final master, including organizing dailies, making selects, creating rough and finishing cuts and implementing feedback with speed and precision.

• Provide editorial guidance and quality control on video work produced by junior editors, freelancers and external partners, ensuring consistency and excellence in storytelling, pacing and brand integrity.

• Collaborate with producers, designers, copywriters and marketers to translate briefs and scripts into compelling visual narratives and motion approaches.

• Drive and execute all aspects of post production including picture edit, basic color, sound design, music selection, graphics integration and versioning.

• Leverage AI tools for tasks such as rough cuts, transcription, captioning, clean plates, rotoscoping and masking, noise reduction, resizing, asset search and concept exploration to streamline workflows and increase output quality and speed.

• Use strong editorial judgment to ensure AI assisted work meets or exceeds brand, quality and compliance standards and review, refine and finalize all AI generated elements.

• Stay current on emerging AI and video technologies and recommend opportunities to integrate new tools and methods into the post production pipeline.

Collaboration and Pre Production

• Participate in early stages of concepting and pre production, providing strategic editorial and social platform input on story approach, shot lists, coverage and capture strategy.

• Partner with the Senior Manager, Video and production teams to ensure footage is captured with post production needs, multiple aspect ratios and social cut downs in mind.

• Clearly communicate editorial requirements and constraints to cross functional partners including Marketing, Creative, Ecommerce and Sales.

Workflow, Systems and Asset Management

• Estimate editorial timelines and level of effort with accuracy and manage priorities and deadlines across multiple concurrent projects.

• Establish and maintain best practices for project organization, naming conventions, version control and backup procedures.

• Manage and organize the library of raw footage, project files, AI generated assets and final exports to ensure assets are easily discoverable and reusable.

• Deliver final videos in correct formats, sizes and specifications for all distribution channels including social, digital shelf, retail, paid media, trade shows and internal use.

Other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• 5 or more years of progressive experience in video production and post production with a strong portfolio demonstrating lifestyle, brand, graphic and motion and social first work.

• Experience in corporate, brand or agency environments working on multi platform campaigns preferred.

• Advanced, professional level expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud, specifically:

– Premiere Pro, with expert skills in multi track editing, advanced effects, audio mixing, color tools and workflow optimization.

– • 5 or more years of progressive experience in video production and post production with a strong portfolio demonstrating lifestyle, brand, graphic and motion and social first work.

• Experience in corporate, brand or agency environments working on multi platform campaigns preferred.

• Advanced, professional level expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud, specifically:

– Premiere Pro, with expert skills in multi track editing, advanced effects, audio mixing, color tools and workflow optimization.

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EDUCATION & SKILLS

• Four year BA or BS degree in Film, Media Production, Communications, Design or related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously in a fast paced environment.

• Strong sense of visual storytelling, pacing, composition and music and sound integration.

• Deep awareness of digital and social content trends, particularly in parenting, lifestyle and consumer product spaces.

• Comfort working with AI assisted creative workflows with a clear understanding of when to rely on automation and when to apply hands on craft.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to clearly articulate creative rationale and incorporate feedback constructively.

• Self starter with strong problem solving skills, attention to detail and a high bar for quality.

• Ability to keep the Senior Manager, Video and cross functional partners proactively informed of project status, risks and needs.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• None required.

COMPUTER/TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Frame.io, Photoshop and Illustrator required.

• Advanced computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• Working knowledge of additional tools such as Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D or other 3D and motion tools is a plus.

• Experience with AI enabled creative and post production tools such as Adobe Sensei features, AI based transcription and captioning, AI upscaling and cleanup or similar. Skilled in Ai prompting for image and video generation.

• Familiarity with asset management systems and cloud based collaboration tools preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• This role may be required to lift equipment up to or exceeding 50 pounds on a semi regular basis.
• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The team member frequently is required to sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The team member is occasionally required to stand, walk and taste or smell.
• The team member must regularly lift and or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and or move up to 25 to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• General office environment and edit bay environment.
• This role will be required to travel to and from set locally on occasion and may be required to work on locations that may or may not be ADA compliant.