Video Editor at Hearst Communications Inc. in New York City, New York

Job Description:

Why Hearst Magazines? 

Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and Oprah Daily. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone. 

But we’re more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels—print, digital, video, and social—with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Job Overview

Cosmopolitan and Seventeen are hiring a Video Editor to join our joint video team! This person must be able to excel in a fast-paced environment and be able to balance multiple projects simultaneously.​ The right candidate will use their creative eye and organizational skills to help us create video content with a fresh, nuanced, and inclusive perspective. This person will have a key role in shaping the story for videos in a wide range of topics, including social justice and politics, beauty, pop culture, relationships and more.

Job Responsibilities

• Use Adobe Premiere to edit videos for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and any other social platform Cosmo uses.


• Participate in group brainstorms for shoot pre-production.


• Work closely with producers to maintain high production value and make recommendations on how to accomplish this.


• Understand and implement best practices for media storage and work in an organized manner.


• Take notes and direction from producers and senior editors and implement feedback quickly.

Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree required.


• Thorough knowledge of Adobe Premiere. Knowledge of After Effects and Photoshop would be useful.


• A positive attitude and the ability to work calmly under pressure are essential!


• Keen sense of trending content and editing styles throughout digital media and film.

Technical Skills 

• 2-4 years of hands-on post-production experience, preferably within both broadcast and digital media and film.


• Strong understanding of production and post-production workflow as well as social media platform deliverables.


• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, including experience troubleshooting media storage and Adobe Creative Suite issues.


• A knowledge of camera operation and shooting would be a huge bonus, but this role will be primarily editing.

As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Magazines requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law.  Hearst Magazines will consider requests for reasonable accommodations on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements. 

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