Job Title
Experienced Short-Form Video Editor (Instagram Reels)
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced short-form video editor to join our content team and help edit high-performing Instagram Reels for an Ayurvedic doctor's personal brand focused on skincare, haircare, bridal care, and root-cause wellness.
This role is for someone who understands how to turn raw footage into clean, engaging, high-retention vertical videos that feel authentic, trustworthy, and visually polished. The ideal candidate should already have experience editing Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or similar short-form content, especially in educational, wellness, skincare, or personal brand content.
What Success Looks Like in This Role
Success in this role means:
- Delivering reels that are edited quickly, cleanly, and consistently
- Creating videos with strong hooks, smooth pacing, and readable subtitles
- Helping increase audience retention, engagement, and consultation-focused conversions
- Reducing the amount of editing supervision needed from the founder/doctor
- Maintaining a clear and premium visual style across all content
How This Role Fits Into the Organization
This role is an important part of our content and growth system. The editor will work closely with the founder/doctor to transform educational and consultation-focused content into engaging short-form videos that attract the right audience and support business growth through Instagram.
The editor will play a direct role in helping us scale content output while allowing the founder to focus more on patient care, learning, and consultations.
Responsibilities
- Edit short-form vertical videos for Instagram Reels and similar platforms
- Turn raw talking-head footage into engaging, high-retention content
- Remove pauses, improve pacing, and create a smooth viewing experience
- Add clear, accurate, and visually appealing subtitles in English, Hindi, or Hinglish as needed
- Create strong first 23 second hooks through editing, structure, and pacing
- Add text overlays, light B-roll, zooms, and visual emphasis where appropriate
- Follow a consistent brand style and editing template
- Repurpose one shoot into multiple reel outputs when required
- Deliver edits on time and manage revisions efficiently
- Organize project files and edited deliverables properly
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience editing Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or TikTok-style short-form videos
- Strong understanding of short-form pacing, audience retention, and hook structure
- Ability to edit talking-head educational content in a clean and engaging way
- Experience with subtitles/captions and vertical-video formatting
- Good understanding of Instagram content style and trends
- Strong communication skills and ability to follow briefs clearly
- Ability to meet deadlines consistently
- Comfortable working remotely and handling batch-based workflows
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience editing content for doctors, skincare brands, wellness creators, educators, or women-focused brands
- Familiarity with Hindi/Hinglish subtitle editing
- Ability to create multiple variations from one raw video
- Basic understanding of content performance and viewer engagement
- Experience with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, CapCut, or similar editing tools
Application Requirements
To apply, please share:
- Your best 5 relevant reel samples
- Your experience with short-form editing
- Your turnaround time
- Whether you are available for a free trial edit
