At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fuelled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.
While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!
Viral Nation is seeking a precise, platform-fluent Video Optimization Editor to join our Studio team. This is not a conceptual or campaign-origination role — it's an execution-focused position built around one core task: taking existing influencer and creator content and optimizing it to be acutely aligned with platform readiness and brand-specified criteria.
Working exclusively for a marquee CPG brand, you'll work within a defined set of digital content standards bespoke to their brand, reformatting and optimizing raw and existing creator assets so they meet the technical and structural requirements of major social platforms (Meta, TikTok, YouTube Shorts)— before they go live. Speed, accuracy, and a trained eye for what's brand and platform compliant are the skills this role demands.
You are the kind of editor who reads platform update documentation. You notice when a super is 3 pixels outside a safe zone. You don't find structured checklist work limiting — you find it clarifying. You're fast, consistent, and don't need ambiguity to do your best work.
What You'll Do Here:
- Receive raw influencer and creator video content, as well as existing cuts and reformat it to meet a designated set of brand criteria as well as platform-specific technical requirements across Meta, TikTok, YouTube,
- Recut and crop assets to varying aspect ratios (9:16, 4:5, 1:1) - by scratch when working with raw footage, and via tactics like letterboxing or pillarboxing with existing cuts.
- Ensure brand logos and visual identifiers appear within the first 1–2 seconds of every video asset.
- Add, retime, or replace text supers and captions so content is fully legible without audio - optimized for sound-off environments.
- Verify all text and graphic elements fall within platform-safe and brand-designated content zones, avoiding UI overlap areas on every placement.
- Trim video length to match platform-optimal durations per placement type (e.g., feed vs. stories vs. in-stream).
- Audit audio tracks and ensure active sound elements are present and appropriately mixed.
- Run pre-submission quality checks against a defined checklist before any asset is delivered for posting.
- Manage simultaneous asset versions across multiple brands, platforms, and markets with consistent output quality.
- Flag content that cannot be made compliant without reshooting or creator re-submission, and communicate that clearly to project leads.
What You'll Need To Have:
- 2–5 years of video editing and optimizatin experience, with a significant portion in social-first or digital advertising contexts.
- Deep working knowledge of platform specs and UI behavior across Meta (Feed, Stories, Reels), TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
- Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro; After Effects a strong plus for motion supers and text animation.
- Demonstrated ability to work against technical compliance checklists, not just creative direction.
- Strong understanding of caption and subtitle workflows (SRT, burned-in captions, auto-caption correction).
- Ability to manage a high volume of assets simultaneously without sacrificing accuracy.
- Comfort receiving structured feedback and iterating quickly — this role operates in a review-and-revise workflow, not a solo creative one.
Additional Considerations:
- Experience working within a brand compliance or creative quality framework at an agency or CPG brand.
- Familiarity with dynamic ad formats or DCO (Dynamic Creative Optimization) asset structures.
- Basic motion design skills for creating or adjusting lower-thirds and supers natively.
- Experience working with creator-generated content specifically (as opposed to studio-produced footage).
*Submission of a strong portfolio demonstrating a diverse range of strategy-led social media content, campaigns and/or projects is required with application.*
At Viral Nation, compensation is structured, performance-led, and market-aligned. Pay decisions are intentional, based on role requirements, performance, and market alignment by country, and are set to maintain internal pay equity across comparable roles and levels.
Compensation progression is tied to demonstrated performance, expanded scope, and sustained contribution over time, not tenure alone. Employee compensation is reviewed regularly through formal performance reviews and check-ins to ensure alignment with role expectations and impact.
DEI Commitment:
Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.
Skills Required
- Submission of a strong portfolio
- 4+ years experience in video production as an editor
- Ability to edit short and long-form content
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud suite (Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator)
- Experience in all aspects of video post-production
- Proficient understanding of graphic design, color correction, audio mixing, cutting music, and motion graphics
- Strong understanding of animation principles and graphic application within video edits (2D & 3D)
- Comprehensive understanding of editing file structures, A/V formats, and compression
- Knowledge of contemporary cameras, file formats, and codecs and proper handling in post workflow
- Ability to finalize edits and color grade deliverables in multiple formats
- Ability to track, version, prepare and render final edits to client specifications
- Ability to collaborate with Creative Directors, Producers, and external VFX vendors
- Strong attention to detail, composition, and spelling
- Ability to communicate needs positively and productively and process feedback
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to work collaboratively and also progress projects without direct supervision
- Ability to wear multiple brand hats and switch between brand books
What We Do
Viral Nation is a global digital and social agency group driving growth and connection through performance and innovation. Our mission is to close the distance between brands and consumers and create tighter bonds. Using real time data, first-hand insight, and collaborating with people who know their audiences intimately, we help brands find smarter ways in to deliver better value to their communities.
