Freelance Video Editor

🌎 Location: In the NYC Office

⬆ Reporting Into: Account Director, Chief Creative Officer

💰Compensation: $96,000-$110,000. This is a 1099 Independent Contractor position.

📅 Start Date: 2/1/25 – or earlier.

We are seeking a video editing expert who has mastered the art of video editing trickery that keeps a viewer engaged, entertained, and leaves them desiring more. Social-first edits that are 30s, 15s, and 6s long. You must know when to keep it simple with a dose of edge, and when to pile on the extra for SM intended content with supers and video treatments that resemble the latest and greatest trends on social media.

Outside of SM content, we also need a video editor to tackle the creation of TVC spots. Color-grading experience is not a must but is a plus.

Responsibilities

Reviewing stringouts and stitching together the best edit possible with audio, matched voiceover with visual storytelling, strong editing to the selected soundtrack, and adding tasteful and appropriate supers where applicable. Using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Qualifications

3 years experience, with a preference in the beauty, and luxury lifestyle markets.

Preference for those who are in the NYC area to collaborate with our internal NYC team.

About VMGROUPE

VMGROUPE is a 360˚ agency unlike any other. We are your group, and an extension to your internal team. Recognized as a strategic thought-leading partner, we specialize in beauty, fashion, jewelry, fragrance, fine food, wine, spirits, and real estate. We create desire, delivering exceptional branding, memorable content, compelling storytelling, high conversion, and transformative growth. Hyper international and headquartered in New York, we lead with diversity, ensuring creativity that resonates globally, and is fresh and on the pulse. We build brands. We build experiences. We build resort villages. We’re juggernauts and polymaths, not bound to a list of predefined capabilities. As our clients claim, there is nothing we do not do. We do it all, beyond well, with the highest level of expertise and attention. We elevate brands and push luxury forward, because we are DOPE AF, and do Dope AF $$$hit. We are ultra-refined, and forever uber young with a GenZ sense of humor.

What we’re looking for from the heart

• Self-starter persona
• Problem solver
• Hyper proactive
• Team-player mentality
• Passion, enthusiasm, energy, humor, and the ability to convey this through communication and presentation skills.
• Intellectually curious; you want to understand everything about our clients’ business.
• Intrinsically-motivated – you want to win because that’s how you are built.
• A history of thriving in fast-paced, results-oriented positions that directly contributed to client happiness.
• Previous exposure to collaborating with diverse teams is a plus

Key Things to Know

• This is a full-time Independent Contractor Position.

· Onboarding takes 30 days. You are expected to show promise and your difference by month 2.

• This is a NYC role. Must work from our office with remote work flexibility as you wish, yet being in the office is and on set and shoots is 90% of the role.

Benefits

Generous work life balance with 22 days PTO, 11 National Holiday closures,

🌴 Unlimited unpaid vacation days