Kendo Brands, Inc.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a creative Video Editor who specializes in digital + social-first content to join our team. This role will be focused on producing short-form, eye-catching videos tailored for platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, ensuring each piece resonates with beauty lovers and stays on top of trends. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of the beauty industry and knows how to engage and inspire audiences in a competitive social media landscape. This role will capture content as needed at shoots.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with the social, marketing, and creative teams to bring ideas to life through video.
- Create story boards and concepts in collaboration with Creative and Marketing team to translate product objectives into compelling videos that are on brand for each project, ensuring best in class, disruptive content.
- Capture high-quality video content for various platforms (e.g., social media, websites, ads, events) with a focus on creativity and visual storytelling.
- Edit and produce high-quality, engaging video content optimized for paid media platforms
- Edit and produce high-quality, engaging video content optimized for social media platforms, including Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other formats.
- Stay on top of beauty trends, social media trends, and platform updates to ensure our content is relevant and impactful.
- Repurpose longer-form content into social-first, bite-sized pieces while retaining brand voice and messaging.
- Apply motion graphics, animations, and visual effects that align with our brand style and elevate our content.
- Present video treatments /options & edits; addressing feedback with solution-based creative thinking.
- Manage project timelines and deliver assets in a timely manner to meet content publishing deadlines.
- Work with beauty influencers and ambassadors, incorporating their content into our brand's social media.
- Maintain consistent brand tone, visual aesthetics, and quality across all social media video content.
Skills + Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in video editing, with a focus on creating social-first content for beauty, lifestyle, or fashion brands.
- Proficiency in video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, and knowledge of mobile editing apps like CapCut or InShot.
- Strong understanding of social media platforms, including their technical requirements, best practices, and user behaviors.
- Experience with short-form video formats (Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts) and creating engaging, clickable thumbnails.
- Excellent sense of pacing, visual aesthetics, and attention to detail.
- Understanding of framing & technical constraints in both vertical & horizontal formats.
- Experience with color grading, motion graphics, and sound design.
- Proficiency in using professional video cameras as well as shooting on an iPhone
- Knowledge of SEO for YouTube and other video-first platforms.
- Basic graphic design skills for creating engaging thumbnails and video overlays.
- Familiarity with content planning and social media analytics tools.
- Familiarity with current beauty trends, influencer culture, and social media video trends.
- Strong organizational and communication skills, able to work collaboratively and meet deadlines.
- Portfolio of previous video editing work in the beauty space, with a focus on social media content (required).
- Ability to meet stringent deadlines, quickly managing changing priorities.