About the Role
Hammer Media is hiring a Senior Video Editor to help lead post-production across several new YouTube shows including Front Page and a new financial show.
This is a hands-on editing role. You’ll own the quality and delivery of episodes from raw footage to final upload while helping guide a small team of contract editors. You should have strong storytelling instincts, high creative taste, and the ability to build efficient editing systems that allow the team to ship high-quality videos consistently and on schedule.
What You’ll Do:
Edit and Deliver High-Quality Episodes:
- Edit long-form YouTube content across multiple shows
- Shape pacing, structure, and storytelling to maximize viewer retention
- Integrate b-roll, music, graphics, and motion elements to elevate the final product
- Deliver polished final cuts that meet Hammer Media’s quality standards
Lead the remote contractor editing team (speed + quality):
- Provide clear editing instructions and feedback to remote editors (structure, pacing, b-roll notes, graphics callouts, tone)
- Review cuts, run revision cycles, and ensure deadlines are met
- Maintain consistent editing standards across all shows
- Coach contractors to improve performance—and upgrade the bench continuously by identifying, testing, onboarding, and retaining top-tier editors
Optimize Post-Production + Packaging:
- Build and maintain organized workflows, templates, and editing guidelines for speed and repeatability
- Ensure proper file management, version control, and asset organization
- Create thumbnails and titles with a testing mindset, continuously optimizing for the highest engagement
- Analyze video performance metrics like CTR, retention, and watch time
- Use insights to refine editing style and improve future videos
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of of editorial or documentary-style video editing experience, ideally with YouTube-first content
- Strong long-form YouTube editing instincts: storytelling, pacing, structure, and retention
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Experience with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop
- Expertise in color grading, audio cleanup, and export/deliverables for YouTube
- Experience managing or mentoring other editors
- Highly organized and comfortable working in a fast-moving production environment
Why Join Us? (The Perks):
We are an in-office team in East Austin because we believe the best ideas happen when we’re in the same room. Our culture is high-energy, collaborative, and focused on radical accountability.
- Relocation Assistance: Not in Austin? No problem. We provide a relocation package to help the right candidate join us here.
- Awesome Office & Team: Work from our East Austin office with a stocked snack bar, catered lunches, and a team that actually likes spending time together.
- Unlimited PTO: We trust you to manage your time and your results.
- Health & Wealth: Comprehensive health benefits and a 401(k) with a company match.
- Lunch & Events: Daily lunch stipend and quarterly team-building activities (we go big on our events).
How to Apply:
Submit your resume AND
- Links to 2–4 relevant long-form edits (documentary/narrative preferred)
- A short note on your experience leading editors/contractors and maintaining quality at scale