We're looking for a Video Editor who will help shape how videos get made at PlanetScale. You'll work with our team to edit and animate YouTube videos, social shorts, conference highlights, case studies, and launch films, with free rein to use any tool that makes them better, including ones that didn't exist six months ago.
AI is reshaping the video editing space in similar ways to how it is transforming software broadly. We're looking for someone who embraces this new world of creating, combining this with your own personal craft to make excellent video content. We give you the room, the tools, and the time to both create and experiment.
What we're looking for- A portfolio that shows strong editing across formats. YouTube, short form edits, podcasts, etc.
- A sharp sense of pacing, structure, and story: you know what to keep, what to cut, and how to time things to maintain an engaged audience.
- Equal comfort with editing, animation, and design: you can shape a story, incorporate interesting visuals, and set clean, expressive type that reads well on any screen.
- Fluency in professional editing tools such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro.
- Experience using AI tools to create animations, assist with editing, and the curiosity to push the limits of how these can be used in a video creation workflow.
- Ability to create custom scripts and leverage AI to automate parts of your pipeline, such as transcription, thumbnail ideation, and generating rough edits of large amounts of footage.
- Work closely with our team to help shape ideas before the edit starts, and iterate on feedback quickly.
- YouTube videos, from explainers to interviews, paced to hold attention start to finish.
- Shorts and vertical clips for social platforms.
- Conference talks, full-talks from our events and clips to share on socials.
- Launch videos, where timing, polish, and pacing carry the announcement.
- Thumbnails, title cards, typography, and motion graphics that go with all of the above.
- A combination of strong individual editing skills combined with an excitement for how AI can improve the speed and quality at which we create.
- In close collaboration with the Marketing team at PlanetScale.
- You'll have time and budget to try new tools.
- Background in Software Development, or working with Engineering companies
- Experience editing tech / developer content
- A channel or account you've grown yourself
- Experience with code-driven video tools like Remotion
- A knack for creating engaging thumbnails and titles
- Sound design and audio mixing skills
- Experience shooting or directing your own footage
- Livestream or live event production experience
PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.
At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.
If you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!
Total Compensation and Pay TransparencyAn employee’s total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview.
Base salary range: $150,000 - $200,000
PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our database platform offers developers the fastest and most reliable Postgres and Vitess/MySQL databases, enabling businesses to efficiently handle data and workloads of all sizes.
PlanetScale is backed with over $100M in venture financing from top-tier VCs including a16z, Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, and Insight Venture Partners. And we serve some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Block, Anysphere (Cursor), MyFitnessPal, Etsy, Kick, and thousands more. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Skills Required
- Portfolio demonstrating strong video editing across formats, including YouTube, short-form content, or podcasts
- Strong understanding of pacing, structure, storytelling, and audience engagement
- Ability to edit, animate, and design expressive visual content and typography
- Fluency with professional editing tools such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro
- Experience using AI tools for animation and video editing workflows
- Ability to create custom scripts and use AI to automate video production tasks
- Ability to collaborate with teams to shape ideas and iterate quickly on feedback
- Background in software development or experience working with engineering companies
- Experience editing technology or developer-focused content
- Experience growing a personal channel or social account
- Experience with code-driven video tools such as Remotion
- Thumbnail and title creation skills
- Sound design and audio mixing skills
- Experience shooting or directing footage
- Livestream or live event production experience
What We Do
Our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed. PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases at companies like Slack, block, Etsy, intercom, Cursor, MyFitnessPal, and Barstool Sports. Our Offerings Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection. PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month and gives you a fully managed PostgreSQL cluster built for performance and reliability, offering first-class tooling without sacrificing developer experience. Available in AWS and GCP. High availability clusters deliver automatic failover across three availability zones. Neki is our next-generation Postgres sharding architecture inspired by everything we have learned building Vitess: a fresh design from first principles to bring massive scale and reliability to PostgreSQL workloads.
Why Work With Us
Our philosophy is to attract the best talent and to support them doing amazing things where they are the most comfortable and productive. We have a highly distributed, remote forward team with employees across the United States and the globe.
