Video Editor

At Ecultify, we sit at the intersection of creative storytelling, culture, and technology. We create everything from fast-paced social content and digital campaigns to branded films, podcasts, performance creatives, and AI-led visual experiments.

We are looking for Video Editors who understand that editing is not simply about placing clips on a timeline. It is about finding the story, building rhythm, holding attention, and making every frame work harder.

You will collaborate closely with creative strategists, copywriters, designers, account managers, and production teams to turn raw footage and ideas into sharp, platform-ready content. You should be equally comfortable handling a polished brand film and a fast-moving reel that needs to be delivered within hours.

Role: Video Editor

Location: Andheri East, Mumbai

Role & Responsibilities
1. The Story Shaper

You will take raw footage, scripts, references, and creative direction and turn them into clear, engaging visual stories.

Your role is not limited to cutting clips together. You will identify the strongest moments, build the right pace, create emotional or visual impact, and ensure the final film communicates the intended message without unnecessary clutter.

You should be able to judge when a video needs energy, when it needs restraint, and when the edit itself should remain invisible.

2. Platform-First Editing

You will create content across Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, digital advertisements, websites, presentations, and other emerging platforms.

You should understand how audience behaviour changes across formats. A six-second performance ad, a 30-second reel, and a five-minute brand film cannot be edited with the same rhythm or structure.

You will adapt aspect ratios, pacing, hooks, captions, visual hierarchy, and storytelling styles based on where the content will be consumed.

3. End-to-End Post-Production

You will manage the complete post-production process for assigned projects—from organising raw footage and creating the first cut to incorporating feedback and delivering final exports.

This includes editing, sound selection, basic sound design, colour correction, subtitles, transitions, motion graphics, format adaptations, and final quality checks.

You will maintain organised project files, follow naming systems, manage backups, and ensure that source files and final outputs can be accessed without confusion.

4. Creative Collaboration

You will work closely with the creative and strategy teams before and during the editing process.

You should be able to understand scripts, storyboards, references, campaign objectives, and brand tonality. When the footage or original idea is not working, you are expected to raise it early and recommend a stronger editorial solution.

We are looking for someone who contributes creative thinking—not someone who simply waits for frame-by-frame instructions.

5. Quality, Speed & Ownership

Agency work moves quickly, but speed cannot become an excuse for careless execution.

You will be responsible for meeting timelines, managing multiple projects, communicating delays early, and ensuring that every output is technically and creatively ready before it is shared internally or with the client.

You should be able to work through feedback without losing the original idea and take full ownership of the edit until final delivery.

The Mindset You Bring

Story Before Software: You understand that knowing editing software does not automatically make someone a strong editor. Your decisions are driven by story, emotion, audience attention, and the purpose of the content.

High Visual Sensibility: You have a sharp eye for composition, typography, pacing, music, colour, and movement. You can identify when an edit feels dated, cluttered, repetitive, or visually inconsistent.

Fiercely Proactive: You do not wait until the final export to flag missing footage, poor audio, incorrect formats, or an unclear brief. You identify issues early and actively suggest solutions.

Open to Feedback: You can receive feedback without becoming defensive, understand the reasoning behind revisions, and improve the edit without mechanically applying every comment.

Organised & Reliable: Your timelines, files, versions, and exports are structured. Your team should never have to search through folders called “final”, “final-final”, and “latest-final-2” to find the correct file.

Curious & Adaptable: You actively follow changes in editing styles, digital formats, platform behaviour, music trends, motion design, and visual culture. You are willing to learn new techniques instead of repeating the same editing formula.

Comfortable with Technology: You are open to using AI-assisted editing, transcription, clean-up, generative visuals, and automation tools where they can improve speed or execution. These tools should support your creative judgement, not replace it.

The Core Skills Required

• 2+ years of professional video editing experience, preferably within a creative, digital, production, or advertising agency.
• Strong command of Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
• Working knowledge of Adobe After Effects for motion graphics, animation, compositing, and visual enhancements.
• Good understanding of storytelling, pacing, shot selection, music, typography, and visual continuity.
• Experience editing social media content, digital advertisements, brand films, interviews, podcasts, and campaign videos.
• Ability to work across vertical, horizontal, and square formats.
• Practical understanding of colour correction, audio clean-up, subtitles, codecs, export settings, and platform specifications.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and revisions within tight timelines.
• Strong portfolio or showreel demonstrating both creative range and technical quality.
• Basic knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, or other design tools will be an advantage.
  

This role is not the best fit if:

You only know the software: You can operate editing tools but struggle to understand storytelling, pacing, audience attention, or why one edit works better than another.

You require frame-by-frame instructions: You wait for someone else to make every creative decision and are uncomfortable suggesting better cuts, references, music, or visual treatments.

You use the same editing style for everything: Every reel, brand film, podcast, and advertisement ends up with the same transitions, sound effects, pacing, and visual language.

You struggle with feedback: You take revisions personally, repeatedly miss comments, or make changes without understanding how they affect the complete film.

You compromise on file discipline: Your project files, versions, raw footage, and exports are poorly organised, making collaboration and future revisions unnecessarily difficult.

You disappear when timelines get tight: You avoid communicating delays, raise issues too late, or depend on constant follow-ups to complete assigned work.

You prioritise effects over the idea: You add unnecessary transitions, animations, and visual treatments even when they distract from the story or the brand.