American Alchemy
Assistant Editor — YouTube Podcast / Digital Media (Contract/Freelance)
Austin, TX
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Remote
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Contractor
American Alchemy is looking for an Assistant Editor to support our post-production workflow across long-form podcast episodes, trailers, teasers, clips, and social/video assets!
About American Alchemy
Description
We’re looking for a detail-oriented Assistant Editor to support our post-production workflow across long-form podcast episodes, trailers, teasers, clips, and social/video assets.
This role is ideal for someone who is technically strong, organized, reliable, and excited to grow within a high-quality YouTube and podcast production environment.
This is not primarily a story-shaping or creative direction role.
The Assistant Editor will focus on the repeatable, operational parts of the edit process: organizing footage, preparing timelines, creating rough selects, assembling clips, supporting revisions, managing assets, and helping the editorial team move quickly and cleanly.
The right person is efficient, precise, comfortable with remote workflows, and able to follow direction while maintaining strong technical standards.
What You’ll Do
- Organize raw interview footage, audio, graphics, music, and project files.
- Prepare timelines for long-form YouTube podcast episodes.
- Sync audio and video when needed.
- Create stringouts, selects, and rough assemblies.
- Pull strong moments from dense conversations for review.
- Assist with clips, teasers, trailers, and social assets.
- Help implement notes and revisions.
- Maintain clean project organization, naming conventions, and version control.
- Export review cuts, final deliverables, and platform-specific versions.
- Support basic sound cleanup, music placement, captions, graphics, or visual references when needed.
- Manage assets through Dropbox or similar remote workflows.
- Deliver clean project files when needed.
Basic Requirements
- 1+ year of editing or assistant editing experience for podcast, YouTube, documentary, social, interview-based, or digital video content.
- Portfolio or 2–3 work samples showing relevant editing or assistant editing work.
- Experience working with long-form or interview-based footage.
- Ability to work remotely and communicate reliably during active projects.
- Own editing setup, software, and reliable internet connection.
- Ability to export and deliver review cuts, final files, and project files when needed.
Preferred Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Familiarity with After Effects for basic graphics, templates, or motion support.
- Experience with AI animation software or visual-generation tools.
- Experience using Dropbox or similar remote asset-management workflows.
- Familiarity with Frame.io or similar review tools.
- Experience creating string outs, selects, and rough assemblies from raw footage.
- Experience syncing audio and video for podcast or interview-based content.
- Experience supporting trailers, teasers, clips, or social video assets.
- Strong project organization, naming conventions, and version-control habits.
- Ability to identify useful or compelling moments from raw interview footage.
- Good judgment with pacing, music, sound, and structure at an assistant level.
- Experience collaborating with producers, editors, or creative leads in a remote environment.
- Familiarity with UFOs/UAP, consciousness, frontier science, hidden history, philosophy, mysteries, or similar subject matter.
Compensation
- $35–$45/hour depending on experience, speed, technical skill, and scope.
Work Type
- Remote freelance work
Additional Information
- Initial assignments may be project-based, with potential for recurring work for the right assistant editor.
- Project-based compensation may also be discussed depending on the assignment.
Salary
$35 - $45 per hour