Top Editor Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Edit 4–8 long-form YouTube videos monthly, including vlogs, docu-series, and interviews, from raw footage through final export. Own narrative structure, viewer retention, color correction, audio mixing, formatting, thumbnails, and chapter markers. Manage production workflows in ClickUp and Google Drive, track YouTube analytics, run creative experiments, meet deadlines independently, and communicate risks early.

Edit one long-form podcast video and one audio episode weekly, managing multi-camera assembly, story editing, color grading, sound mixing, B-roll, motion graphics, mastering, and delivery. Develop visual storytelling and brand insertions, analyze YouTube retention data, organize assets, meet rapid deadlines, and propose creative experiments that improve audience retention and performance.

Edit 20–30 short-form videos monthly for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Responsibilities include finding compelling moments in raw footage, shaping stories under 60 seconds, adding motion graphics, kinetic text, music, and sound design, analyzing trends and performance data, mining content libraries, and proposing creative concepts. The editor must deliver high-volume work on time, minimize revisions, and create viral-ready clips aligned with the organization’s Christian mission.

Freelance Video Editor responsible for transforming raw footage into polished long-form, podcast, and short-form content across major social platforms. The role requires strong storytelling, pacing, audience-retention judgment, organized project files, collaborative communication, and proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro. Editors will use performance insights, platform trends, and AI-assisted workflows to improve content quality and production efficiency. This is a remote, on-demand contract engagement with variable monthly workload.

Manage the day-to-day production of local buyers guides from research through publication. Assign and review editorial work, conduct local business research, verify facts and sources, perform final quality assurance, and provide actionable feedback. Identify content gaps, recurring quality issues, and workflow improvements while maintaining high-volume production standards. Collaborate with content, SEO, data, and engineering teams to improve accuracy, efficiency, and consumer usefulness.

Own creative video edits from concept through delivery, shaping documentaries, campaign films, and social content into compelling narratives. Select footage, develop structure and pacing, and apply music, sound design, graphics, typography, and color grading. Collaborate with communications, creative, and marketing teams; bring contemporary references and trends; explain editorial decisions to leadership; and create motion graphics and titles in After Effects.

Write and edit timely market commentary and macroeconomic stories for Wealthfront’s Vested Interest newsletter. Develop written, audio, video, and social content across platforms including Substack, TikTok, and YouTube. Monitor financial news, generate content ideas, translate complex financial information for young professionals, collaborate with Social, Creative, Investment Research, Compliance, and Lifecycle teams, and evaluate distribution channels and content performance.

The Video Editor will create and optimize engaging video content for various platforms, focusing on retention and storytelling, while collaborating with the team and experimenting with content strategy.

Writes daily, well-researched news stories covering legislation, elections, religion, public policy, and political trends affecting Catholics. Develops story ideas, conducts interviews and research, monitors policy developments, and summarizes major news for CatholicVote’s daily LOOP newsletter. Formats and sends the newsletter, maintains editorial accuracy and deadlines, participates in planning, and collaborates with senior editors in a fully remote role serving Western U.S. time zones.

Create motion graphics, animations, and edited video content for Motorola Solutions’ technology and brand storytelling. Develop visual concepts, storyboards, cinematic films, UI/UX simulations, 3D device animations, and social content. Collaborate with product experts, leadership, marketers, and cross-functional teams while following brand guidelines. Manage multiple projects, adapt to shifting priorities, and deliver polished assets under tight deadlines using advanced editing, motion design, 3D, and post-production skills.

Leads Newsweek’s U.S. news desk, making high-stakes editorial decisions, assigning and prioritizing coverage, rewriting breaking and enterprise stories, reporting when needed, enforcing newsroom standards, mentoring journalists, and collaborating with audience teams. The role requires strong news judgment, speed, precision, legal and political awareness, and the ability to improve coverage in real time under pressure.

Conceptualize, produce, and edit news-driven videos including documentaries, interviews, explainers, and opinion pieces. Collaborate with reporters and producers on scripts, visuals, and story structure; create motion graphics; source and organize media; select music and sound effects; manage multiple projects; and meet publishing deadlines across social platforms.

Remote unpaid video-editing internship: edit and assemble raw footage into polished content, add transitions, color correction, sound design, graphics and captions, adapt assets for social platforms, manage multiple projects, iterate on stakeholder feedback, and organize media libraries while collaborating with marketing and creative teams.

Provides Khmer-to-English and English-to-Khmer translation and editing for official documents, including vital records, legal documents, certificates, and academic transcripts. Reviews accuracy, grammar, formatting, and consistency; protects confidential information; follows client instructions; and meets deadlines, including one-to-two-day turnaround requirements. This remote freelance role is assigned on an as-needed basis and requires independent work, U.S. citizenship, and completion of a Tier 1 background investigation.

Edit engaging video content for Beast Industries, making creative decisions that maximize audience retention across digital platforms. Applicants must submit a video they personally edited and screen-record a concise walkthrough explaining their editing choices, rationale, and potential improvements. Submissions should be hosted via an accessible unlisted YouTube or Loom link and kept to five minutes or less.

Lead the Narrative Editing product team and own Descript’s script-based editing, recording, writing, AI regeneration, script generation, speaker identification, and translation experiences. Develop customer insights, define the editor roadmap, partner with AI Research, improve intuitive workflows, and ensure the product scales for larger teams and complex use cases. The role requires strong product judgment, customer discovery skills, systems thinking, and experience shipping creative or workflow tools.

Edit short- and medium-form videos for social, web, events, presentations, internal communications, product launches, technical explainers, customer stories, and brand content. Responsibilities include story construction, pacing, dialogue and sound editing, color correction, motion-graphics integration, versioning, captions, technical quality control, media organization, and delivery. The editor collaborates with producers, cinematographers, motion designers, communications, marketing, engineers, and operators.

The Editor maintains brand editorial quality across pharmaceutical agency projects by developing style guides, proofreading, fact-checking, reviewing promotional materials for accuracy and compliance, and advising colleagues on editorial standards. The role requires managing multiple deadlines, training teammates, conducting secondary research, protecting project quality, and collaborating with copy, art, project management, and client service teams.

Senior Editor shaping The Atlantic’s Hollywood and entertainment-industry coverage. Responsibilities include guiding reporters, delivering scoops and analysis, editing deeply reported stories, identifying industry trends, and producing engaging, rigorous journalism for a general-interest audience. The role requires collaboration, excellent story judgment, and occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Provides Burmese-to-English or English-to-Burmese translation and editing for official documents, including vital records, legal documents, certificates, and academic transcripts. Responsibilities include ensuring accuracy, grammar, formatting, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with client instructions while meeting deadlines and quick turnaround requirements. The role is remote, freelance, and assignment-based, requiring independent work, strong communication, and U.S. citizenship with completion of a Tier 1 background investigation.

Provides English-to-Turkish legal translation and editing for judiciary-related materials on an ongoing freelance basis. Responsibilities include accurately applying U.S. legal, judicial, and technical terminology, meeting deadlines, using computer-assisted translation tools, and accepting approximately 10–15 hours of assignments weekly. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and willing to complete security clearance processing, including fingerprinting.

Provides English-to-Polish legal translation and editing for judiciary-related materials on an ongoing, as-needed freelance basis. The role requires native-level Polish and English writing, strong U.S. legal and judicial terminology knowledge, computer-assisted translation experience, exceptional accuracy, organization, and deadline management. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, willing to undergo security clearance processing and fingerprinting, and generally available during Eastern Time weekdays for approximately 10–15 hours weekly.

Translate and edit Indonesian-English official documents, including vital records, legal documents, certificates, and academic transcripts. Ensure accuracy, grammar, formatting, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with client instructions. Complete assignments independently within required deadlines, including one-to-two-day turnaround times, while accepting work on an as-needed freelance basis.

Provides Korean-to-English or English-to-Korean translation and editing for legal, official, vital, certificate, and academic documents. Ensures accuracy, grammar, formatting, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with client instructions. Completes assignments independently, often within one to two days, on an as-needed freelance basis.

Translate and edit French-English legal, official, vital-record, certificate, and academic documents. Ensure accuracy, grammar, formatting, consistency, confidentiality, and compliance with client instructions. Complete assignments independently under tight one-to-two-day deadlines on an as-needed freelance basis.