Shorts Editor

The Stokes Twins are one of the largest creator‑led entertainment brands on YouTube, known for high‑energy storytelling, ambitious concepts, and culture‑driven content that reaches hundreds of millions of viewers each month. Our team thrives on creativity, collaboration, and making a positive impact through content.
As we continue expanding into a next‑generation entertainment company, short‑form content remains one of the primary engines of audience growth, discovery, and brand expansion.
About the Role The Shorts Editor owns the editing and creative execution of our short‑form content across YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and emerging platforms. This is not a basic clipping role. Working closely with the Shorts Strategist, you will transform raw footage, ideas, trends, and long‑form moments into highly engaging short‑form content optimized for retention, engagement, and subscriber growth.
The ideal candidate combines elite editing skills with strong creative instincts, audience psychology, platform expertise, and AI‑assisted workflows. You should be capable of taking a short from concept to final export with minimal oversight while consistently delivering review‑ready work that exceeds expectations.
Mission The mission of the Shorts Editor is to make short‑form content perform better. By engineering stronger hooks, clearer storytelling, better pacing, and more satisfying payoffs, this role helps turn viewers into subscribers, followers, and long‑term fans of the Stokes universe. Every edit should be built to stop the swipe, hold attention, and maximize audience engagement.
Key Responsibilities Short-Form Editing & Creative Execution Edit high‑performing content across YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and emerging platforms.
Own the edit from first assembly through final export, including pacing, captions, graphics, VFX, sound design, music, and final polish.
Create platform‑native content that feels current, visual, fast‑paced, and culturally relevant.
Deliver review‑ready cuts that require refinement rather than rescue.
Own the first frame, first second, and opening structure of every short.
Build content toward an 85%+ "People Stayed to Watch" benchmark whenever the footage and premise support it.
Develop multiple hook variations, opening structures, and creative approaches for priority content.
Improve retention through stronger storytelling, pacing, visual clarity, curiosity, and payoff.
Storytelling & Editorial Judgment Structure every short as a mini‑story with a clear promise, escalation, payoff, and loop.
Select the strongest performances, reactions, moments, and visual beats from the footage.
Continuously improve comedic timing, visual rhythm, sound design, and audience engagement.
Make content understandable instantly while remaining globally appealing and highly shareable.
Content Recycling & Platform Adaptation Transform long‑form moments into standalone short‑form stories.
Identify, repurpose, and amplify high‑potential content from both new releases and the back catalog.
Create platform‑specific variations when needed across Shorts, TikTok, Reels, and emerging platforms.
Stay current on trends, creator ecosystems, and platform behavior without simply copying what already works.
Analytics & Iteration Use retention data, engagement metrics, and audience behavior to improve future edits.
Test hooks, pacing styles, captions, openings, and creative formats.
Translate performance insights into stronger editing decisions.
Continuously refine workflows that improve output quality and efficiency.
AI-Powered Creative Innovation Use AI to accelerate ideation, hook development, visual exploration, captioning, asset creation, and creative iteration.
Generate alternate hooks, openings, captions, endings, and edit variations quickly.
Explore emerging tools and workflows that improve creative quality, speed, and scalability.
What You'll Own Help turn short‑form content into one of the company's strongest subscriber growth engines.
Improve retention, engagement, and viewer satisfaction through stronger editing decisions.
Deliver review‑ready content that consistently exceeds the "good enough" standard.
Create scalable editing systems, workflows, and content variations that improve output quality.
Help the team identify, test, and scale winning short‑form formats faster.
Raise the overall creative bar of the Stokes short‑form ecosystem.
Who You Are Proven experience editing high‑performing Shorts, TikToks, Reels, or social‑first content at scale.
Deep understanding of hooks, retention, audience psychology, pacing, and platform‑native editing.
Strong instincts for comedic timing, visual storytelling, sound design, and viewer engagement.
Able to create multiple hook and edit variations quickly.
Expert‑level proficiency in Premiere Pro and strong experience with motion graphics, VFX, and post‑production workflows.
Comfortable using analytics to improve creative decisions.
Aggressive about adopting AI tools and emerging workflows to improve quality and speed.
Highly organized, fast‑moving, collaborative, and comfortable operating in a high‑performance environment.
Comfortable owning outcomes rather than simply executing tasks.
The expected base pay range for this position is $90,000 to $140,000 per year. Actual pay will vary depending on location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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