Video Editor

Video Editor, Homes.com

Job Description

CoStar Group Company Intro

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. 

Homes.com 

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com.  Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years’ experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company. 

Learn more aboutHomes.com. 

Role Description: Are you a stellar visual storyteller? Join us at Homes.com as we create top-tier content to support buyers, sellers and real estate agents at all phases of the home-search process.

As a video editor for Homes.com (a subsidiary of CoStar Group) you’ll be part of a team crafting stories that give home buyers a street-level window into the lifestyle and vibe of neighborhoods throughout the country as they shop for their new home. And you’re helping agents grow their business by connecting with new clients.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a critical thinker and a creative problem solver. You’ll draw on experience in commercial shoots, documentary-style storytelling and marketing content to create engaging, persuasive and entertaining visuals for all corners of Homes.com. Multiple rounds of changes and feedback are part of the job, so adaptability is a must.

CoStar Group has 20+ years’ experience in leading digital marketplaces. This role will be supported by our growth and innovation at our expanding global campus in Richmond, Virginia.

You’ll be an integral part of our stellar team of writers, editors, photographers striving to produce the best content in our industry. There’s no place like Homes.com.

Responsibilities

• Capable of editing with the ability to meet tight deadlines.

• Edit marketing, docu-style, multi-cam post, greenscreen and location style videos.

• Animation and motion graphics creation through After Effects, Motion, and others.

• Attend team meetings.

• Edit high quality short-form and long-form video projects.

• Work collaboratively with other members of the CoStar Group’s video content team, writers, producers, architectural photographers, and videographers to complete department goals.

• Process and log footage, interviews, and stock gathering content.

• Edit multiple interviews down to cohesive marketing pieces with b-roll storytelling.

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit university or college.

• Editing experience between 5+ years

• Must be proficient with non-linear editing software (Primarily Adobe Suite, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, but may also include Davinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro)

• Proficiency working with standard and LOG footage from various codecs including h.264, MOV, B-raw, R3D REDCODE Raw, Canon Raw, and ProRes.

• Proficiency with LUTs, color spaces (Wide Gamut, SDR, HDR, Rec709, and BT2020), color correction, and grading using waveform, histograms, and vectorscope data.

• Proficiency working with voice over files to clean and master audio files including equalizing and compressors.

• Proficiency working with transcoding footage and proxy generation.

• Learn to edit content on brand and within style guidelines.

• Visual storytelling with and without spoken material.

• Archive video projects through various linear editing platforms according to department standards.

What’s in it for you?

Working at CoStar Group means you’ll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. In addition to generous compensation and performance-based incentives, you’ll be supported in both your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

This role offers 4 days a week onsite with 1 day remote.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing