What are the responsibilities and job description for the YouTube Video Editor position at John Malecki Media?
We are seeking an experienced, creative, and highly organized YouTube Video Editor to own the post-production pipeline for our brand-new The Creator Playbook YouTube channel — a talking-head, education-driven channel teaching creators how to turn their content into real businesses.
We're looking for an editor with a passion for YouTube and a sharp instinct for what keeps viewers watching. You should thrive in a collaborative environment, understand how clarity, pacing, and strong hooks drive retention in talking-head content, and love turning long-form ideas into tight, engaging videos. Most importantly, you're a lifelong learner who's always looking for ways to level up your editing skills and keep the audience hooked.
Who You Are
- Passionate about creating clear, engaging talking-head content that keeps viewers watching to the end.
- A team player who brings ideas to the table and is open to feedback.
- An expert editor who knows how to craft a narrative, open with a strong hook, and hold retention throughout.
- Skilled at making complex or educational ideas feel simple, fast, and worth watching.
- Highly organized and able to hit a consistent weekly deadline.
- Always up-to-date on the latest YouTube trends and content strategies.
What You'll Do:
1. Post-Production & Workflow Management
- Own the full post-production process from ingest to final delivery for the TCP channel.
- Deliver on a cadence of 1 longform video and 5 shortform per week to start, scaling to roughly 2 longform videos per week as the channel grows.
- Maintain clean, organized project files, media libraries, and version control.
- Optimize workflows to improve efficiency, speed, and consistency.
- Coordinate with producers and production staff to plan edits ahead of shoots when possible.
2. Collaboration
- Collaborate with producers and on-screen talent to refine concepts and storytelling.
- Partner with the production team during pre-production to anticipate post-production needs and improve shoot efficiency.
- Foster a positive, collaborative, and high-performance editing environment.
- Work cross-functionally with social, marketing, and publishing teams to ensure content is optimized for distribution.
- Align with brand leadership to develop and evolve the visual and editing style of the new TCP channel.
- As the channel scales, help refine workflows and support additional editing capacity if the team grows.
3. Technical Oversight
- Troubleshoot editing, software, and hardware issues as they arise.
- Ensure all exports meet technical specifications and quality standards.
- Stay current on editing trends, tools, plugins, and workflow improvements.
- Maintain the overall visual style, pacing, and storytelling standards for the TCP channel.
- Execute final cuts including color grading, sound design, music selection, and visual effects/motion graphics.
- Shape pacing, narrative flow, and hooks to maximize clarity and audience retention.
- Ensure all content aligns with platform-specific best practices.
- Utilize stock content and AI tools within editing workflows.
Job Requirements
- 1 years of professional video editing experience, ideally with YouTube or digital-first content.
- Mastery of Adobe Premiere Pro and proficiency in After Effects.
- Strong understanding of storytelling, pacing, and audience retention.
- Experience editing talking-head, interview, or educational content is a strong plus.
- Experience with motion graphics, sound design, and color grading.
- Exceptional organization and time-management skills.
- Including the word "Panther" in your cover letter or note to prove you actually read this.
- Ability to consistently hit weekly deadlines without sacrificing quality.
- Creative thinker with a strong editorial voice and collaborative mindset.
- Comfortable working on both Windows and Mac operating systems.
Why Work With Us
Join a creative, driven team where your work directly helps creators build real businesses. You'll be the founding editor of a brand-new channel, shaping its look, pacing, and voice from day one while learning the strategies behind one of the fastest-growing lanes in the creator economy.
If you're ready to bring bold ideas, clean edits, and endless creativity to The Creator Playbook team, we encourage you to apply!
We're looking for editors who have an eagle eye for detail. Please make sure your application includes your portfolio and the unlisted YouTube video link, as we're only able to move forward with candidates who provide both.