Open role · Marketing · Remote · Part-time or full-time

Video Editor and Creative Director

You’ll edit our YouTube videos, Shorts, and Instagram content, and help direct them. That means pitching new video ideas, helping with scripts, and choosing titles and thumbnails based on what’s performing on YouTube and Instagram. YouTube is one of the main ways families find us, so your work directly affects the business.

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  • 1–3Long-form videos a week
  • DailyShorts and Reels
  • 10–15Videos a week, all in
  • RemotePart-time or full-time

Section 01

Who we are

INSPIRATE helps motivated students punch above their weight class and earn acceptances at selective schools where they’ll actually thrive, without the “Ivy or bust” pressure cooker. Founded in 2023, we work with students from 9th grade through application season.

Our students

Motivated high schoolers, 9th through 12th grade, aiming for selective schools. Their families want a clear plan, not more pressure.

What we do for them

Activities and summer programs early on. Then school lists, application strategy, personal statements, and supplements. One team from 9th grade to decision day.

How we work

Regular 1:1 meetings with a written recap after each one. Progress tracked for every student. Monthly quality reviews so nothing slips, and a student portal that keeps it in one place.

Where you fit

You shape our videos from the idea to the final cut: what to make, how to script and package it, and how to edit it so families watch to the end. Shinwoo Lee, our founder, records the videos, and you take it from there.

Section 02

What you’ll own

You own our videos from the idea to the version that goes live: what we make, how it’s packaged, and how it’s cut. This isn’t only an editing role.

Core

Video ideas

Pitch new video ideas based on what’s working on YouTube and Instagram right now, and on what families are asking about.

Core

Scripts, titles, and thumbnails

Help script videos, and choose the titles and thumbnails most likely to earn the click, based on what’s performing in our space.

Core

Long-form YouTube

Edit our 10–15 minute YouTube videos for pacing and retention: tight cuts, clear structure, no dead air.

Core

Shorts and Reels

Cut short clips for YouTube Shorts and Instagram that hook viewers in the first second.

Ongoing

Batch editing

Edit in batches so a week’s videos move together: 1–3 long-form videos and several short clips a day, about 10–15 videos a week in all. The AI tools you already know make that much faster.

Ongoing

Learn from the numbers

Watch retention graphs and bring what you learn into the next edit.

The short version: Find the idea. Package it. Cut it tight. Ship on time.

Section 03

What great looks like

What a great edit looks like here.

Pillar 01

Retention

If people click away, the video didn’t work. Every cut is there to keep them watching.

Pillar 02

Clarity

Parents watch to understand something. Make the idea easy to follow.

Pillar 03

Consistency

A steady publishing schedule beats one perfect video.

Section 04

How you’ll be measured

You’re measured on how the videos perform and how reliably they ship.

Performance

  • Average view durationHow long people keep watching our long-form videos.
  • Short-form performanceViews and watch-through on Shorts and Reels.
  • Click-through rateHow often people click the titles and thumbnails you chose.

Reliability

  • Turnaround timeBatches delivered on schedule, so every video is ready before it’s due to post.
  • Revision roundsEdits that need few changes before they go live.

Section 05

Who this role is for

We care about what your edits do for viewers, not just how they look.

You’re a fit if

  • You have a portfolio of YouTube and short-form work
  • You’re fluent in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or similar
  • You think about retention, not just how a video looks
  • You can reliably turn around a 10–15 minute video
  • You use AI tools to edit faster
  • You follow what’s working on YouTube and Instagram and turn it into ideas, scripts, titles, and thumbnails

This isn’t for you if

  • You add effects for their own sake
  • You treat deadlines as suggestions
  • You don’t want feedback from data
  • You only want to edit what you’re handed

Section 06

Schedule & structure

This role is fully remote and part-time or full-time.

  1. Fully remote

    Work from wherever you do your best work.

  2. Part-time or full-time

    We’re open to either, depending on the person.

  3. Independent contractor

    This is a contract role. You work as an independent contractor and handle your own taxes.

  4. Getting started

    Your first two weeks are mostly onboarding and training: how we work, the tools we use, and the standard we hold. Then you start on your first batch of videos, with the team behind you.

Section 07

Apply now

A short application with links to videos you edited and proof that you edited them, plus a Loom walking us through your creative process. We can’t consider an application without the proof.

Software
What you edit

YouTube videos, Shorts, or Reels you edited. A playlist or Drive folder works too.

A Google Drive or Dropbox folder with screenshots of your editing timeline or project files for those videos, or your messages with the creator. We can’t consider an application without it.

Google Drive or Dropbox, set so anyone with the link can view.

Record a 5–8 minute Loom (sharing your screen is great) walking us through your process, in order:

  1. Find the idea: Show us how you find a new video idea: where you look on YouTube and Instagram, and how you decide it’s worth making for families thinking about college.
  2. Script and package it: Take that idea and walk us through how you’d script it, plus the title and thumbnail you’d use. Point to videos performing well right now that shaped your choices.
  3. Edit it: Show us how you’d cut it so people keep watching: the hook, the pacing, and what you’d leave out.

Show real examples, not just ideas. We want to see how you think. (Loom is free at loom.com.)

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