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Remote
Creative ProductionVideo Production & Editing
About the job
Requirements
At least 4 years of short-form video editing experience with demonstrated viral output, including video examples and view counts.
Expertise in at least one professional editing suite: Premiere, DaVinci, or After Effects, plus CapCut Pro.
Motion graphics and sound design capability beyond basic cuts.
Demonstrated systems thinking, including prior experience building template or preset libraries and the ability to describe them.
Fluency with AI editing tools and informed judgment about which tools are worth paying for.
Ability to explain why editing choices retain viewers.
A computer capable of rendering at volume.
Responsibilities
Edit hero content to a high standard that competes with full-time creators.
Build and maintain a template library of hook openers, caption styles, transition packs, and platform presets so creators can self-serve variants.
Own pacing, cuts, sound design, captions, and motion in edits.
Create platform-native versions of each hero concept, adapting aspect ratio, hook, length, and caption style for each platform.
Automate processes such as batch captioning, auto-reframing, and preset-driven exports.
Maintain asset organization, file naming, and archives to prevent duplicate work.
Provide the manager with accurate information about what is taking time so briefs remain realistic.
Desired Qualifications
Experience editing for a channel the candidate also helped grow.
Automation or scripting experience, including batch processing or API-driven workflows.
Thumbnail and cover design experience.
About DrBalcony
Welcome to DrBalcony – a trusted name in Inspection innovation. Since our establishment in 2021, we’ve been committed to bridging the gap between property owners and skilled Inspectors. With a focus on precision, technology, and trust, DrBalcony is where projects take flight, making California balconies safer with the expertise of over 6000 inspections.
You make things watchable and you make volume possible. Half this job is cutting hero content to a very high standard. The other half — the half that matters more — is building the template and preset system that lets the team publish 5x what one editor could cut by hand. What you'll do
Cut hero content: the concepts the manager is betting on, edited to a standard that competes with full-time creators
Build and maintain the template library — hook openers, caption styles, transition packs, platform presets — so the creator can self-serve variants without you touching every file
Own the pacing, cuts, sound design, captions, and motion that turn raw footage into retention
Version every hero concept into platform-native cuts: aspect ratio, hook rewrite, length, caption style per platform
Automate what can be automated — batch captioning, auto-reframe, preset-driven exports
Maintain asset organization, file naming, and archive so nothing gets remade twice
Feed the manager honest data on what's actually taking time, so briefs stay realistic
Required qualifications
4+ years editing short-form video with proven viral output — show us the videos and the view counts
Expert in at least one professional suite (Premiere, DaVinci, After Effects) plus fast tools (CapCut Pro)
Motion graphics and sound design capability — not just cuts
Demonstrated systems thinking. You've built template/preset libraries before and can describe them
Fluent with AI editing tooling and opinionated about which are worth paying for
You understand why an edit retains — you can explain the choice behind a cut, not just make it
Machine that can render at volume without dying
Nice to have
Experience editing for a channel you also had a stake in growing
You've only ever done client-service editing to spec
You can't explain what makes an edit retain vs. just look nice
BONUS OPPORTUNITY: Structure: 85% base / 15% variable. Base $1,400–1,600, realistic total $1,600–2,100.
Trigger Payout Team publishes 40+ assets/day sustained for a month $200 Team publishes 60+ assets/day sustained $400 Each new template pack shipped that the creator adopts $75 Quarterly: avg. retention rate across all published video improves vs. prior quarter $500