Jr. After Effects Motion Graphics Artist & Video Editor

This is a Freelance Job

Job Type: Full-Time Contractor (Remote)

Location: Remote (Quarterly travel to Cleveland and Toledo required)

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled, efficient, and visually inventive Video Editor & Motion Graphics Artist with expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. In this role, you will be the driving force behind our visual content pipeline, turning raw footage, static assets, and user-generated content (UGC) into thumb-stopping social media videos, commercial-grade product ads, and dynamic motion graphics.

If you have a flawless sense of pacing, an eye for color and lighting, and the ability to seamlessly blend cinematic aesthetics with high-energy social trends (TikTok, Reels, Shorts), we want you on our team.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Video Editing: Edit short-form and long-form video content using Adobe Premiere Pro, ensuring crisp pacing, seamless transitions, and flawless audio mixing.

• Motion Graphics & Animation: Design and animate dynamic text, lower thirds, logo reveals, and custom graphical overlays in After Effects to elevate brand storytelling.

• Asset Manipulation & Prep: Utilize Photoshop to cleanly isolate assets, mask elements, and prep multi-layered files for seamless integration into your motion graphics workflows.

• Social-First Formatting: Optimize, reframe, and version content for specific platform requirements (9:16 vertical for TikTok/Reels, 1:1, and 16:9 widescreen formats).

• Commercial & Brand Storytelling: Shape narrative flows for product photography, lifestyle reels, and QSR franchise campaigns, maintaining a strict adherence to individual brand guidelines.

• Occasional content capture as needed: BTS / Social / B-roll / UGC

• Trend-Driven Visuals: Collaborate closely with the community and creative teams to quickly execute trend-based edits, leveraging native app aesthetics, text styles, and viral pacing formats.

• Asset Management & Organization: Maintain a meticulous project file architecture, ensuring clean timelines, organized media bins, and easily retrievable templates for future agency use.

• Color Grading & Sound Design: Apply clean color correction, grading, sound effects, and audio balancing to deliver polished, broadcast-ready digital assets.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with copywriters, creative directors, and account managers to bring concepts from script and storyboard to final delivery under tight agency deadlines.

Qualifications

• Must be based in the continental US

• Experience: 3+ years of professional video editing and motion graphics experience, preferably within an agency, commercial studio, or fast-paced digital brand environment.

• Software Mastery: Expert-level command of Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro

• Photoshop Proficiency: Highly proficient in Adobe Photoshop. You must be comfortable with advanced masking, asset isolation (clean cutouts), and prepping multi-layered files to be seamlessly handed off into After Effects for animation. Familiarity with Illustrator is a plus.

• Visual Pacing & Rhythm: An innate sense of timing, comedic or dramatic pacing, and audio-to-video synchronization. You know exactly how to hook a viewer in the first 2 seconds.

• Portfolio Requirement: A strong, diverse portfolio or reel demonstrating your editing style, narrative flow, sound design, and a solid grasp of keyframing, typography, and motion design.

• Adaptability: The ability to pivot seamlessly between different brand aesthetics-from premium corporate wealth management styling to high-energy, playful QSR food marketing.

• Mindset: A detail-oriented, proactive self-starter who handles feedback constructively and thrives in a collaborative, fast-moving remote agency workflow.