The Marketing Team at Shield AI is hiring a Video Editor focused on crafting compelling stories across a wide range of formats, from high-volume short-form content to polished long-form narratives. You are a creative, detail-oriented editor with strong technical expertise and a refined storytelling sensibility who can transform complex ideas into engaging visual content through pacing, structure, sound design, and visual polish.
You partner closely with business development, marketing leadership, program managers, and production teams to shape narratives in post, aligning edits with story, tone, and platform-specific requirements across aspect ratios and distribution channels. You are comfortable working across a diverse slate of projects, balancing quick-turn social and digital content with more in-depth, cinematic storytelling pieces.
You execute end-to-end post-production workflows, including media organization, editing, color correction, sound mixing, and finishing. You maintain clean, organized project files to support collaboration and scalability, and you deliver high-quality assets optimized for a variety of platforms. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining a high standard of craft and consistency. Flexibility for shifting priorities and tight turnaround timelines is essential.
What you'll do:
- Edit a high volume of short-form video content alongside longer-form narrative pieces, balancing speed with storytelling quality.
- Craft compelling edits from raw footage, including interviews, b-roll, and cinematic material, that align with brand voice and narrative goals.
- Collaborate with producers, videographers, and stakeholders to shape story, pacing, and structure across formats and platforms.
- Manage end-to-end post-production workflows including media ingest, organization, editing, color correction, sound design, and final delivery.
- Optimize content for multiple platforms and aspect ratios, ensuring consistency and quality across outputs.
- Maintain clean, organized project files and workflows to support efficient collaboration and scalability.
- Incorporate feedback quickly and iterate on edits to meet evolving creative direction and tight deadlines.
- Support archival and media management best practices, including secure handling of sensitive or export-controlled material when applicable.
Required qualifications:
- 5 to 7 plus years of professional experience in video editing or post-production, with a strong reel demonstrating storytelling, pacing, and technical craft across short- and long-form content.
- Proven ability to shape compelling narratives from raw footage, including interviews, b-roll, and cinematic material.
- Advanced proficiency in industry-standard editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of post-production workflows including media organization, color correction, sound design, and delivery specifications.
- Excellent organization, communication, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, feedback-driven environment.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.
- Commitment to brand consistency and adherence to data handling protocols when applicable.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience editing for a variety of platforms including social, digital, and long-form content, with an understanding of platform-specific best practices.
- Familiarity with motion graphics, basic animation, or visual effects to enhance storytelling.
- Understanding of production workflows to collaborate effectively with videographers and ensure efficient handoff from capture through post.
Skills Required
- 5 to 7 plus years of professional experience in video editing or post-production, with a strong reel demonstrating storytelling, pacing, and technical craft across short- and long-form content.
- Proven ability to shape compelling narratives from raw footage, including interviews, b-roll, and cinematic material.
- Advanced proficiency in industry-standard editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of post-production workflows including media organization, color correction, sound design, and delivery specifications.
- Excellent organization, communication, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, feedback-driven environment.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.
- Commitment to brand consistency and adherence to data handling protocols when applicable.
- Experience editing for a variety of platforms including social, digital, and long-form content, with an understanding of platform-specific best practices.
- Familiarity with motion graphics, basic animation, or visual effects to enhance storytelling.
- Understanding of production workflows to collaborate effectively with videographers and ensure efficient handoff from capture through post.
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials describe excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside a mental‑health EAP. Site perks such as an onsite gym in DC and a gym discount in San Diego support a health‑focused offering.
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Retirement Support — Careers materials highlight a 401(k) with company match as part of the standard package. A Total Rewards overview emphasizes retirement features within a broader, transparent compensation view.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Compensation for in‑demand technical and senior go‑to‑market roles is described as competitive, with visible engineering ranges and top‑end packages. This points to meaningful upside tied to role, level, and scarce skills.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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