The opportunity
We are building Dodo into a content machine for builders, and the video side is where the brand lives or dies. Long-form YouTube, Shorts, Reels. We need someone who has cut dev or technical content before and knows the difference between a Fireship cut and a corporate brand video. Those are not the same craft.
You will own the video output end to end: long-form, short-form, motion, captions, thumbnails (or coordinating with whoever does them). You will work alongside a Content Producer and at least one founder who will be on camera.
What You Will Actually Do
Cut one long-form YouTube per week, 10 to 20 min. Technical explainers, founder-led commentary, builder interviews, product deep dives.
Pull four to five Shorts or Reels per week. Hooks under three seconds. Captions everywhere. Tight pacing. Built for the platform, not retrofitted from the long form.
Handle the visual language of dev content: code on screen, terminal flashes, fast B-roll, motion graphics where they earn their keep, restraint everywhere else.
Work in whatever ships fastest. Descript, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, After Effects, CapCut for short-form (whatever you are quickest in). We fund the tool. We do not argue the choice.
Shoot when needed. We will not always have a crew. A camera, decent audio, and a willingness to direct a founder through a take are part of the job in the first year.
Push back on the producer. Tell us when the take is bad, when the script will not cut, when a thumbnail is lying about the video.
You probably look like one of these
An editor credited on a dev YouTube channel (Fireship-adjacent, Theo, Primeagen, ByteByteGo, Web Dev Simplified, similar). DM us; we already follow you.
A dev YouTuber who edits their own channel and would trade the ad-rev grind for a stable role with a real distribution team behind you.
A freelance editor with a serious devtools brand portfolio (Notion, Linear, Retool, Posthog, Resend, Vercel launch films, or work in that orbit).
What We Look For
Demonstrable taste in dev or technical video specifically. Not wedding reels. Not generic corporate brand films. Not real estate.
Speed. A 60-second Short is not a two-day project for you.
Retention thinking. You know why hooks matter. You can read a retention graph and tell us what went wrong at the 35-second drop.
AI-assisted editing already in your workflow. Descript transcription, Opus Clip, AI roto, AI denoise, etc. Not theoretical.
Range. You can do a polished long-form documentary cut and a feral 45-second Short in the same week.
You are not the right fit if
Your reel is mostly weddings, real estate, generic corporate, or pure music videos.
You need a tight script and storyboard handed to you before you can move.
You think Shorts are below your craft. They are roughly half the job.
You only know Premiere and refuse to try anything else. The tooling moves quarterly now.
The audition (more useful than any interview)
We hand you a 20-minute raw recording. You cut one long-form version (under 12 min) and three Shorts hooks from it. We pay for the audition at your rate.
We then sit down and walk through it together. What you cut, what you kept, what you would have shot differently. That conversation tells us almost everything.
Compensation And Logistics
Competitive base plus equity. Contractors welcome at the start; we convert fast for the right person.
On-site at our Bangalore office, five days a week. Most shoots happen in the office or on location with founders. This role does not work remote.
Gear and software budget fully covered. If your machine is slowing you down, we replace it.
What We Want From Any Application
- Three to five pieces of video you cut, with a one-line note on what you were trying to do and what worked.
- The retention or view-through data, if you have it.
- A note on the AI-assisted parts of your workflow.
No cover letter required. Just send the work.
Skills: youtube,captions,long-form,content creation,audition,video editing
