Social Video Editor (Contract)

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4 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Retail • Social Media • Software • Analytics
Linktree empowers everyone with the tools to curate, monetize, and grow their digital universe.
The Role
Create high-volume, platform-native social videos from conception through delivery. Edit original, UGC, and creator footage; develop hooks, narratives, motion graphics, subtitles, sound design, and multiple channel-specific variants. Manage project files, assets, feedback, versioning, and technical standards while collaborating with channel managers. Use audience performance data, testing, new tools, and AI-enabled workflows to improve creative quality, retention, and production efficiency.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Role
We’re looking for a Social Video Editor to create platform-native videos at the speed of social. This is a high-output role for an editor with strong creative instincts, sharp storytelling judgment, and the ability to ship consistent volume across multiple channels.

You will create original, social-first videos from shoot through final delivery, owning the edit end-to-end, including versioning. You will also transform UGC and creator footage into polished, platform-native content, developing distinct variations for testing across channels. Every cut should feel intentional and tailored to where it will live, not like the same asset reposted everywhere. You will be accountable for editing quality, production speed, and asset readiness, using performance feedback to strengthen future work.

What You’ll Own
  • Editing and post-production: Own the process end-to-end from conception to final delivery.
  • Platform-native adaptation: Create distinct cuts for Reels, Shorts, YouTube, and other social surfaces, adapting based on channel distribution.
  • Hooks and retention: Build strong openings, include retention drivers, and use visual and audio best practices to earn attention and maintain viewer interest.
  • Story shaping: Create the clearest and most compelling social-first narratives.
  • High-volume versioning: Produce multiple edits, aspect ratios, durations, hooks, endings, and creative variants efficiently so the Content team can test ideas and maintain a consistent publishing cadence.
  • Motion and graphics: Create polished but lightweight motion treatments, titles, subtitles, screen recordings, and graphic systems that improve comprehension without slowing production.
  • Creative quality: Ensure exports meet brand, platform, accessibility, and technical standards.
  • Project and asset management: Manage feedback, file organization, version control, project files, source media, and final exports across a high-volume pipeline.
  • Creative testing and partnership: Collaborate with channel managers to develop edit approaches, test variants, and turn performance findings into better future cuts.

What You’ll Bring
  • 3-5 years editing social or digital video for a brand, agency, publisher, creator, production company, or your own audience.
  • A portfolio of platform-native work across Reels, TikTok, Shorts, YouTube, or comparable formats that demonstrates storytelling, pacing, craft, range, and attention to detail.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Premiere Pro or an equivalent professional editing tool, plus fluency in CapCut and working knowledge of After Effects or similar motion tools.
  • A strong instinct for hooks, pacing, retention, comedic or emotional timing, music, sound design, and the small editorial choices that make content feel native.
  • The ability to turn imperfect, mixed-quality, or loosely structured footage into clear, compelling stories without requiring heavy production support.
  • Speed and systems thinking: you can manage a high-volume edit queue, build reusable templates, create versions efficiently, and hit deadlines without losing quality.
  • Excellent project organization and communication, including proactive flagging of asset gaps.
  • A test-and-learn mindset, with the ability to use audience behavior, performance data, new tools, and AI-enabled workflows to improve efficiency and creative outcomes.

Skills Required

  • 3-5 years of experience editing social or digital video
  • Portfolio demonstrating platform-native work across Reels, TikTok, Shorts, YouTube, or comparable formats
  • Expert-level proficiency in Premiere Pro or an equivalent professional editing tool
  • Fluency in CapCut
  • Working knowledge of After Effects or similar motion tools
  • Strong skills in storytelling, pacing, hooks, retention, timing, music, and sound design
  • Ability to turn imperfect or loosely structured footage into compelling stories
  • Ability to manage high-volume editing, reusable templates, versioning, and deadlines
  • Excellent project organization and communication skills
  • Ability to use performance data, new tools, and AI-enabled workflows to improve creative outcomes

Linktree Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Linktree and has not been reviewed or approved by Linktree.

  • Flexible Benefits A sizable, use‑it‑your‑way stipend can be allocated across wellness, learning, lifestyle, childcare/pet insurance, or social impact. This flexibility increases the perceived value of total rewards.
  • Healthcare Strength U.S. coverage includes employer‑paid medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, with support for dependents referenced. The breadth of employer‑paid coverage strengthens the overall value of compensation.
  • Parental & Family Support Policies include paid parental leave for both birthing and non‑birthing parents, along with return‑to‑work support and leave for pregnancy loss. These provisions signal strong backing for families at different stages.

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The Company
HQ: Melbourne, Victoria
180 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Linktree is the market-leading linking platform that was the first of its kind, creating an entirely new category in tech. Today, a community of 70+ million use Linktree, including icons like Adidas, TikTok, the UN Environmental Program, The NFL, Manchester United, World Central Kitchen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, and Selena Gomez. With 48,000 new accounts created every day, Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in our space. It's not only high profile users that turn to Linktree - it's the every day creators, the small businesses, the charities, the side hustlers and the business professionals too. On Linktree, we've seen teachers housing their lessons plans for home-schooling, realtors using it to share their property listings, activists using it to amplify cause and restaurants to house their menu. We’ve teamed up with some of the world’s biggest platforms including TikTok, Snap, YouTube, GoFundMe, Spotify, Google, Stripe, Reddit, Laylo, and Kajabi, to unify Linkers’ digital spaces, and we partner with retail brands Amazon, Lululemon, Nike, Target, Sephora, Lululemon, and more to share products they love. There is a place for everyone on Linktree.

Why Work With Us

We’re building a category-defining product, which means we get to write the rules as we go. With tens of millions of Linkers and billions of visitors each month, there’s no shortage of interesting challenges to tackle. If you’re excited by scale, love building alongside passionate people and want your work to reach millions, come create with us.

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