Project Video Editor / Motion Designer
SMRTLV is expanding the team and looking for a video editor for project-based — and potentially long-term — work on client content, ad creatives, Reels, Shorts, presentation videos, and studio case studies. We're not looking for a purely technical hand who joins clips on a timeline. We're looking for someone with a sense of rhythm, composition, and visual culture — and an understanding of what the video is supposed to do for the business.
Remote · Project-based · Per video, batch, or scope
How we work together
- Remote, project-based engagement.
- Paid per video, per batch, or per agreed scope.
- Workload depends on active projects.
- A real path to ongoing collaboration.
- Work with both English-language and Russian-language source material.
- Deadlines, revision scope, and cost are agreed before work starts.
What you might work on
- Editing Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
- Editing ad creatives.
- Editing interviews, podcasts, and talking-head video.
- Cutting short versions out of long-form source material.
- Subtitles, graphics, music, and sound design.
- Basic color correction and audio cleanup.
- Simple animation and motion graphics.
- Adapting videos across platforms and formats.
- Preparing videos for the portfolio and client case studies.
- Working from scripts, references, and brand guides.
- Proposing your own solutions when the brief can be made stronger.
Must-haves
- A strong, current portfolio.
- A good sense of rhythm, composition, and visual hierarchy.
- Understanding of attention retention — without piling on pointless effects.
- Confident command of at least one professional NLE: Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro.
- Clean, careful work with titles and subtitles.
- Deadlines kept.
- A calm attitude toward well-argued revisions.
- Self-QC of the final file before delivery.
- Understanding of licensing rules for music, fonts, images, and other assets.
- Tidy organization of source and project files.
Nice to have
- After Effects and motion design.
- Commercial projects and ad-creative experience.
- Experience editing English-language content.
- Familiarity with Meta, TikTok, and YouTube advertising formats.
- AI tools for transcription, audio cleanup, rotoscoping, generation, and localization.
- A basic grasp of marketing and video-content metrics.
- Working hours that partially overlap Pacific Time.
What to Expect
Apply
Send your details and work below — everything in one form.
Screening
An AI-assisted first pass scores each application against the role's requirements.
Conversation
A short call to align on the work, scope, and fit.
Paid test
A paid test assignment at an agreed rate — real work, not a trick.
Offer
Clear terms, moving quickly once it's a match.
Shortlisted candidates receive a paid test assignment — paid at a rate agreed in advance, and only after an initial conversation.
Apply — Video Editor / Motion Designer
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