Junior Video Editor
Why Gainsight?
At Gainsight, our mission is to be living proof you can win in business while being human first. Our values — Golden Rule, Success for All, Child-like Joy, Shoshin, and Staying Thirsty — guides us towards that mission.
Gainsight is the leader in customer success and product experience software. The Gainsight Customer Cloud offers everything your business needs to retain customers and drive growth in the age of the customer. As the first cloud of its kind, Gainsight brings together the required technologies to deliver a superior post-sale experience, ensuring customers easily adopt products they’ve purchased and achieve their desired business outcomes in partnership with their vendor. Gainsight joined the Vista Equity Partners portfolio in 2020.
Leading companies such as LinkedIn, Adobe, Tableau, Splunk, and Box choose Gainsight culminating in our recognition as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world by Forbes, one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine, and as one of 20 Great Workplaces in Tech by Fortune Magazine. Gainsight’s CEO, Nick Mehta, has been recognized as one of the Top SaaS CEOs in America and EY’s Entrepreneur of The Year. The company has offices in California, Phoenix, St. Louis, London, and India. Gainsight is a remote-friendly workplace. Gainsight was recognized as one of the Best Work-From-Home companies in 2021.
With diversity and inclusion at the forefront of Gainsight’s core values, we promote a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness regardless of, but not limited to, race, gender, sexual orientation, family status, religion, ethnicity, national origin, physical disability, veteran status, or age. By joining the Gainsight team, you’ll be playing a significant role in our growth, having an opportunity to put your fingerprints on our next phase of scale and customer impact, giving you the opportunity to apply and grow your expertise.
Job Description
Working under the Associate Creative Director, the role of junior video editor requires a passionate and fast-learning editor with a good working knowledge of Adobe Premiere and After Effects as well as a sharp eye for detail, ready to take their skills to the next level. The appropriate candidate will already have experience in professional editing, and if not already familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator and other programs in the Adobe Suite and DaVinci Resolve, they will be keen to develop these skills. A good working knowledge of common editing workflows, standard file formats and resolutions, audio settings and sound & music editing practices is ideal. The right candidate will have a deep understanding of major social media / video platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), a love for television and music, and strong awareness of current pop-culture trends.
What you’ll do:
- Creating video assets to a brief, meticulously following existing guidelines and templates
- Adapting existing edits across various sizes and formats
- Creating video titles and simple motion graphics
- Creating subtitles
- Creating cut-downs, adapts and other content from existing edits
- Proposing content ideas for new videos
- Logging footage
- Compiling selects
- Creative research
- Music library searches
- Organizing and consolidating project files
- Liaising with freelance editors to provide templates, footage and Gainsight workflow guidance
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree in media, film & television or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Audition
- 2+ year professional editing experience or educational equivalent
- Strong show-reel of work demonstrating editing and use of video graphics
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strongly self-motivated
- Able to work to strict and fast-paced deadlines
- Great interpersonal and written communication skills
Nice to have skills:
- Photo/Video shooting skills
- Animation/motion graphic experience