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Funkit

Video Editor (long-form YouTube, Premiere + After Effects)

Posted One Month Ago
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
18K-36K Annually
Mid level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
18K-36K Annually
Mid level
Edit raw footage, interviews, walkthroughs, screen recordings, and graphics into engaging long-form YouTube videos for two real estate and short-term rental brands. The role requires adapting pacing between comedy and cinematic storytelling, using advanced motion graphics and intentional sound design, optimizing viewer retention, and providing creative feedback on jokes and structure.
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Funkit designs short-term rentals across the US.

We're hiring a full-time Video Editor for two brands in the real estate and short-term rental space: Robuilt and Funkit Interiors. Funkit Interiors is a short-term rental design company - that content sits at the intersection of interior design, transformations, and before-and-after storytelling. The role is primarily long-form YouTube for both channels: construction projects, Airbnb experiments, property transformations, design reveals, educational breakdowns. This is not a job where we hand you footage and ask you to cut out the pauses - you take raw footage, interviews, property walkthroughs, screen recordings and graphics and turn it into a story people actually finish. Some videos need fast pacing and comedy, others need to make a property feel cinematic; the best editor for this knows when to go big and when to get out of the way and let the story breathe. We're also not looking for an order-taker - if a joke doesn't land or a section drags, we want to hear it. One thing before you apply - watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipi4SYsntx8 - that's the level we're working at. If it's a cut you could pull off, send work.

Responsibilities:

- Edit raw footage, interviews, property walkthroughs, screen recordings and graphics into finished long-form YouTube videos for two channels (Robuilt and Funkit Interiors)

- Balance fast, comedic pacing with cinematic storytelling depending on what the video needs

- Push back creatively - flag jokes that don't land or sections that drag rather than just executing

Requirements:

- 2-5 years of professional editing experience in YouTube, digital media, branded content, documentary or entertainment

- Premiere Pro inside out, plus advanced custom motion graphics in After Effects - text, maps, numbers, diagrams, callouts, financial breakdowns

- Real understanding of retention: why viewers click away and how editing keeps them

- Intentional sound design and comedic timing, where moving a cut eight frames decides whether a joke lands

- A strong eye for typography and composition, which matters most on the Funkit side

Nice to have: Real estate or construction content, short-term rentals, large creator-led channels, colour grading, 3D, or building graphics from scratch rather than templates.

Benefits:

- Base of $1,500-3,000 USD/month depending on experience

- Fully remote, full-time role

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