Colossal is seeking a story-driven Junior Editor to transform footage from the lab, the field, and the day-to-day work behind de-extinction into sharp, emotionally resonant content. This role blends hands-on editing with essential assistant editor responsibilities. From organizing and logging a continuous flow of footage to building selects, string-outs, and cuts that uncover the de-extinction story as it unfolds. The ideal candidate has strong storytelling instincts, meticulous organizational skills, an eye for meaningful moments in unscripted material, and an eagerness to experiment with new tools and formats.
This position is based on-site full time in Dallas, TX.
Responsibilities:
Story & Edit Support
- Build structured stringouts for field footage
- Assemble select cutdowns that highlight key moments and emotional beats that are brand-forward
- Log, tag, and organize footage by both content and storytelling intent
Editing & Content Creation
- Create social cutdowns and platform-native edits (Instagram, X, etc.)
- Adapt longer-form content into sharp, high-impact short-form pieces
- Contribute to brand sizzles and exploratory edits
- Support video shorts and formatting for multiple distribution platforms
Post-Production Workflow
- Assist with importing media and organizing raw footage
- Maintain clean project structures and asset libraries
- Help manage and organize the internal video library for easy access and reuse
Audio & Finishing
- Assist with basic audio editing, synchronization, and cleanup
- Source music and support light sound design when needed
- Perform basic color correction to ensure visual consistency
Preferred Qualifications
- Foundational AE + editing skills with strong instincts for pacing and storytelling
- Experience editing for social platforms and understanding of platform-specific formats
- Proficiency in Premiere Pro (After Effects a plus)
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail in post-production workflows
- Experience with AI-driven post-production tools and automation techniques is a plus
- Interest in science, technology, and de-extinction
What Colossal Offers Full-Time Employees:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Excellent paid time off and company holidays so you can rest and recharge
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Company matched 401k retirement plan
- Paid parental leave at 100% salary for up to 12 weeks
- Education reimbursement
- An opportunity to help us return the Earth to a healthier state
The team at Colossal is committed, colorful, passionate, intelligent, collaborative, creative, experienced, scientific and world-class. That sounds like a lot to fit into one building. That’s why we are spread out in several locations that include laboratories, test facilities, academic institutions, libraries and offices.
Through it all, however, we maintain a culture of positivity, hope, happiness and belief that we’re doing something big. Something Colossal.
Colossal is proud to be an equal employment opportunity workplace. We welcome people from all backgrounds as well as celebrate and support diversity. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment of mutual respect that is free from discrimination and harassment so everyone can thrive.
EEO is the Law
Search Firm Representatives: Colossal does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms. No fees will be paid for a hired candidate where no pre-existing agreement is in place. We handle most recruitment in-house.
Colossal is proud to be named a Best Place to Work by BuiltIn for 4 years in a row across multiple categories in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026:
- #1 on the 50 Best Startups to Work For in Dallas in 2023!
- 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in Dallas in 2024 & 2025
- 100 Best Places to Work in Dallas, TX (All Size Employers) in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Built In 2026 Award Lists
Great Place to Work Certification Page
Most Loved Workplace Certification Page - Proud to be certified as a most loved workplace including: most loved CEO, most loved workplaces for LGBTQ+, most loved workplaces for women, and most loved workplaces for young professionals.
Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces 2024 Award List - Excited to be amongst the winners of Newsweek's 2024 Most Loved Workplaces!
Skills Required
- Foundational assistant editor and video editing skills
- Strong pacing and storytelling instincts
- Experience editing for social platforms
- Understanding of platform-specific video formats
- Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail in post-production workflows
- Experience with AI-driven post-production tools and automation techniques
- Interest in science, technology, and de-extinction
What We Do
Colossal is a breakthrough bioscience and genetic engineering company that builds radical new technologies to advance the field of genomics. Colossal creates disruptive technologies for extinct species restoration, critically endangered species protection and the repopulation of critical ecosystems that support the continuation of life on Earth. The company is the first to apply CRISPR technology for the purposes of species de-extinction, beginning with the woolly mammoth. Colossal is accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state.
Why Work With Us
Colossal will revolutionize history and be the first company to use CRISPR technology successfully in the de-extinction of previously lost species. On the journey we will build radical new software tools and technologies to advance the science of genomics overall. Join our team and be proud of your contribution to science and the planet.
Gallery
