Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Syndicatebleu is partnering with a creative team seeking a Content Clipper to transform long-form video into engaging, social-first content. The role involves identifying compelling moments, editing concise clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and optimizing content for retention, engagement, and shareability.
Responsibilities
- Review long-form video and independently identify strong, engaging, and potentially viral moments
- Turn interviews, conversations, and other long-form footage into concise, compelling social clips
- Develop attention-grabbing hooks and complete short-form narratives
- Edit videos with strong pacing, captions, punch-ins, transitions, graphics, music, and other visual enhancements
- Optimize content for the formats and audience behaviors of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts
- Apply platform-native editing techniques that support watch time, retention, engagement, and shareability
- Stay current on emerging social trends, viral formats, editing styles, and cultural conversations
- Collaborate with the creative and social teams to develop compelling content
Skills
- • Prior experience working as a Short-Form Video Editor, Social Video Editor, Content Clipper, Social Content Producer, or similar role
- • Experience independently reviewing long-form video, selecting the strongest moments, and transforming them into engaging short-form clips
- • Demonstrated ability to recognize emerging trends, culturally relevant conversations, and potentially viral moments
- • Strong understanding of hooks, pacing, storytelling, audience retention, and platform-native social content
- • Experience creating content for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts
- • Proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut, Descript, or comparable editing tools
- • Ability to work independently and support projects on a flexible, as-needed basis
- • Experience editing podcasts, interviews, creator content, entertainment content, or talking-head videos is highly preferred
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Freelance engagement
- Ongoing work based on project needs
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