Video Editor

About This Role

This role involves transforming raw footage, interviews, shoots, and creative assets into engaging, high-quality digital videos. The Video Editor will be responsible for editing both short-form and long-form content for various digital platforms. The ideal candidate will possess a strong sense of storytelling, pacing, visual aesthetics, and platform-specific content formats, along with a keen understanding of entertainment and digital trends.

Responsibilities

• Edit short-form and long-form videos for digital and social media platforms
• Edit interviews, celebrity content, entertainment stories, features, shows, and original video formats
• Create engaging Reels, Shorts, and other vertical video formats
• Ensure strong storytelling, pacing, transitions, and visual continuity
• Select appropriate footage, music, graphics, sound effects, and supporting visuals
• Create platform-specific edits optimized for YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and other relevant platforms
• Adapt long-form content into multiple short-form and social-first assets
• Understand audience behavior, trends, and content formats across platforms
• Create attention-grabbing openings and edits that encourage viewer retention
• Work with producers, anchors, content teams, and social media teams to understand creative requirements
• Add motion graphics, titles, lower thirds, captions, transitions, and other visual elements
• Perform basic color correction, audio enhancement, and sound mixing
• Maintain consistency in visual quality and Pinkvilla's content standards
• Ensure videos are delivered within agreed timelines
• Stay updated with social media trends
• Identify editing styles, formats, and techniques that can improve audience engagement
• Experiment with new editing approaches, formats, and storytelling techniques
• Work closely with Producers, Anchors, Content, Social Media, and Design teams
• Take ownership of projects from raw footage to final delivery
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and deadlines
• Incorporate feedback quickly and effectively

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in video editing, preferably in digital media, entertainment, OTT, YouTube, or social media
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Working knowledge of After Effects, Photoshop, and/or other editing and motion graphics tools
• Strong understanding of short-form and long-form video editing
• Good understanding of social media video formats and aspect ratios
• Strong sense of storytelling, pacing, music, and visual composition