Video Editor | Immediate Joiner

The role in one line

You own post-production across a creative agency and a consulting group cinematic brand films one week, founder interviews and campaign cutdowns the next.

RoughCut Labs has 13+ years of work across fashion, entertainment and brand, with campaigns for names like Coca-Cola, DLF, Tanishq, Reliance Brands and Jack Daniel’s. You will be editing at that standard, while also building the Group’s own content engine. Both matter.

What you'll actually do

Editing and post-production

• Edit brand films, campaign videos, product films, event recaps and fashion content for RoughCut Labs clients from rushes to final master
• Cut long-form Group content — founder interviews, thought leadership, deal explainers, webinars — and derive short-form cutdowns for each platform
• Handle the full post chain: ingest, sync, assembly, rough cut, fine cut, colour grade, sound design, mix, titling, delivery
• Design and animate motion graphics, lower thirds, kinetic typography, infographic sequences and title packages
• Master and deliver to platform specifications — aspect ratios, codecs, bitrates, caption files, thumbnail frames

Craft and story

• Make editorial judgements, not just technical ones — pace, rhythm, where a cut lands, what to cut entirely
• Work from a brief and a storyboard, and flag early when the footage will not support the intended story
• Maintain a consistent visual language across each brand while letting client work carry its own identity

Production and pipeline

• Support on set where needed — DIT duties, data wrangling, backup discipline, shot review against the edit plan
• Own the media pipeline: asset management, project structure, naming conventions, archive and backup policy
• Manage multiple edits against client and campaign deadlines, and run revision rounds without losing versions
• Brief and review work from freelance editors and motion designers during high-volume periods

• First 90 days looks like success if
• You are running your own edits end to end without supervision, the media pipeline is documented and followed, and turnaround on standard formats has visibly shortened.
• What we're looking for
• Must have

• 5–10 years as a professional video editor, with a showreel demonstrating both brand or commercial work and interview or corporate content
• Expert command of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects; DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro is also welcome
• Genuine colour grading ability — Lumetri or Resolve — and a working eye for matching shots across a sequence
• Sound design and audio mixing: cleanup, levelling, music selection and licensing awareness, mix for both broadcast and phone speakers
• Motion graphics capability strong enough to build a title package from scratch, not just apply presets
• Understanding of the whole production chain, codecs, colour spaces and delivery specs — you should not need a producer to tell you what to export
• Editorial instinct. We can teach the brand; we cannot teach a sense of when a cut is a beat too long
• Ability to hold quality across parallel deliverables under client deadlines

Good to have

• Fashion, editorial or entertainment post experience, given RoughCut Labs’ portfolio
• Cinema 4D, Blender or 3D motion capability
• Shooting ability — camera operation, lighting, or directing interview setups
• Experience editing finance or B2B content and making a genuinely dry subject watchable
• Familiarity with performance creative: hook testing, platform-native formats, iterating cuts against results