Video Editor (Shorts and YouTube)

About the role

ScaleHouse runs TikTok Shop for brands, and its founder posts short videos and long YouTube videos explaining how it works. He needs an editor to turn raw footage into finished videos that viewers watch to the end. The work is paid by the month: $700 for 20 short videos and 8 long videos, including thumbnails.

Key responsibilities

• Short-form: 20 vertical 9:16 videos of 30 to 90 seconds each, with a cover thumbnail, posted every month
• Long-form: 8 horizontal 16:9 YouTube videos of 10 to 15 minutes, with chapters and end screens, posted every month
• Cut talking-head and green-screen footage, removing the speaker and placing him over screenshots, articles and TikTok pages
• Add big burned-in captions with key numbers highlighted in brand green, and simple graphics for numbers
• Remove pauses and breaths, zoom in every few seconds, and add on-screen text for each point
• Deliver shorts within 48 hours and long videos within 3 days; each video has its own folder with script, brief and assets

Required profile

• Edited short-form content for Reels, TikTok or Shorts and long-form YouTube, with proof of both
• Fast with green-screen cutouts and captions
• Can design clean, clickable thumbnails
• Can follow a brief without being told twice
• Able to overlap a few hours a day with US Eastern time

Required skills

• Premiere Pro, CapCut or DaVinci Resolve
• Thumbnail design