Lead Video Editor

Own the entire video pipeline — YouTube long-form, shorts, lecture polish, and event recaps. There's room to grow into a creative-director role as the team scales.

About the role

We produce a lot of video — founder YouTube, recorded lectures from multiple instructors, field-day footage, ads. Right now it's ad-hoc; we need someone to own the pipeline end-to-end and give the whole catalog a consistent feel. This is a craft role with a real growth path.

What you’ll do

• Edit the founder's YouTube videos — long-form and shorts.
• Polish recorded lectures from instructors (cleanup, captions, chapter markers).
• Cut event footage from workshops, Geo Week, and the annual Symposium into recap pieces.
• Build a consistent visual language — fonts, lower thirds, pacing — across the whole Survey School catalog.
• Eventually lead creative direction as we add editors and motion designers.

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years of professional video editing.
• A reel that includes YouTube long-form AND short-form (vertical) work.
• Strong sense of pacing, music selection, and captioning.
• Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve fluency. Comfort with After Effects or Motion is a plus.
• Reliable own workstation that can handle 4K timelines.

Nice to have

• Associate's degree in film/video production, OR a reel that speaks for itself.
• Motion graphics + color grading chops.
• Familiarity with surveying, drones, GIS, or any technical subject matter.
• Experience editing educational or course content.