This role requires a deep appreciation for visual and audio storytelling, a self-starting mindset, and the ability to bring your own creative interpretation and ideas while remaining true to each property’s editorial guidelines.
Responsibilities
Edit and finalize full-length podcast episodes, short-form social clips, sizzle reels, and on-brand visual content for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and newsletters
Collaborate with content, marketing, and production teams to adapt podcast content into native video formats
Ensure high-quality video deliveries across all projects and platforms
Work with the live events team to create visually dynamic content for on-stage playback and associated digital formats
Explore new and innovative ways to tell stories across WaitWhat’s social channels
Curate, source, and organize required assets for final video delivery, including music, SFX, design, and b-roll
Apply graphic elements to videos using brand guidelines defined by the WaitWhat design team
Add and QC captions across all video content
Provide post-production services including color correction, audio cleanup, light mixing, media management (transcoding, asset curation), and platform deliveries
Receive and prioritize inbound video editing requests, clarifying requirements, specs, and deadlines with each requester
Deliver projects on quick turnaround timelines while maintaining high technical quality
Perform quality control checks before publishing or delivering any video content
Maintain clear, consistent communication to support a collaborative and creative work environment
Requirements
3–5 years of proven video editing experience for social and digital platforms
Strong proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro, with a working knowledge of video and audio encoding, standards, and formats
Experience with structured media file management using platforms like Iconik, LucidLink, Frame.io, Google Drive, or Dropbox
Experience with project management tools like ClickUp
Proficiency in animation and motion graphics using After Effects, Motion, or similar tools
Experience formatting and troubleshooting video assets for social media platforms
Experience in color correction for all video types
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Fast and eager learner with critical thinking, problem-solving, time management, and multitasking skills
Deep understanding of digital trends, with a point of view on what will engage and grow audiences
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in other areas of video production, including storyboarding, producing, and GFX
Basic audio and sound mixing knowledge
Familiarity with special effects, 3D, and compositin
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of proven video editing experience for social and digital platforms
- Strong proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro
- Working knowledge of video and audio encoding, standards, and formats
- Experience with structured media file management using platforms like Iconik, LucidLink, Frame.io, Google Drive, or Dropbox
- Experience with project management tools like ClickUp
- Proficiency in animation and motion graphics using After Effects, Motion, or similar tools
- Experience formatting and troubleshooting video assets for social media platforms
- Experience in color correction for all video types
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Fast and eager learner with critical thinking, problem-solving, time management, and multitasking skills
- Deep understanding of digital trends and audience growth strategies
- Experience in storyboarding, producing, and GFX
- Basic audio and sound mixing knowledge
- Familiarity with special effects, 3D, and compositing
What We Do
WaitWhat is creating the most valuable independent portfolio of premium content IP that elevates human potential — with a contrarian strategy to scale. Downloaded more than 120 million times, WaitWhat’s media properties have defined new genres in the areas of business (Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman), wellness (Meditative Story) and creativity (Spark & Fire). In everything WaitWhat creates, it aims to share hard-won wisdom from the most iconic people of day, to newer voices, sparking curiosity and helping us live at the top of our potential. Founded by June Cohen and Deron Triff — the former TED execs who launched TED Talks and led the media organization for a combined 17 years — WaitWhat’s approach to content is unique in the industry, with a passion for inventing new business models and building inventive partnerships.
