Hiring: Senior Video Editor Company: Zipline Location: South San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:33:45 Employment Type: Remote About the job Experience: •7+ years of professional video-editing and post-production experience in an in-house creative team, agency, studio, production company, media organization, or similarly demanding environment. Required Skills: •Zipline is expanding in the U.S. and will be delivering food, medicine, retail items and more directly to people’s homes in many states over the next few years. We are seeking a Senior Video Editor to turn footage, interviews, sound, graphics, product imagery, and other source material into clear and engaging stories. •Edit short- and medium-form video for social, web, events, presentations, internal channels, and other communications needs. •Review briefs, scripts, transcripts, footage, product assets, screen recordings, archival material, and other sources to build clear editorial structures. •Create selects, string-outs, assemblies, rough cuts, fine cuts, and final masters with close attention to story, pacing, performance, tone, continuity, and visual rhythm. •Find concise and emotionally credible stories in interviews, observational footage, product demonstrations, customer experiences, events, and operational capture. •Partner with the Video Producer to confirm audience, deliverables, schedules, review rounds, feedback routing, and delivery requirements. •Partner cross-functionally with the Cinematographer on footage assessment, coverage, continuity, exposure, color intent, and any pickup needs. •Partner cross-functionally with the Motion Designer on animation briefs, timing, placeholders, turnovers, renders, revisions, and integration of final motion assets. Qualifications: •A strong reel and portfolio demonstrating editorial judgment, pacing, emotional range, and work across multiple formats, with your role identified for each project. •Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro or another professional nonlinear editing system. •Strong working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Audition or comparable audio tools, and post-production workflows from ingest through final delivery. •Demonstrated experience editing interviews, documentary or observational footage, product stories, technical explainers, social content, and brand communications. •Strong instincts for story structure, performance, pacing, music, sound, visual rhythm, and audience attention. •Professional experience with dialogue editing, sound design, music editing, audio cleanup and balancing, color correction, conform, captions, and finishing. •Solid functional working knowledge of motion-graphics and visual-effects pipelines sufficient to brief, turn over, integrate, version, and quality-check work from a Motion Designer or external partner. •Strong technical knowledge of codecs, containers, frame rates, resolutions, aspect ratios, color spaces, audio specifications, captions, and platform delivery requirements. •Excellent organization across media ingest, proxies, transcripts, project files, feedback, versions, masters, and archives. •Demonstrated capacity to manage multiple edits and review cycles while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and attention to detail. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!