# Video and Content Editor **Company**: SteelSeries **Location**: Chicago **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Competitive salary and benefits package **Category**: Marketing **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2629769 **Apply**: https://gn.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SteelSeriesCareers/job/IL-Chicago/Video-and-Content-Editor_R28497 **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e1d88222-0af ## Description We're looking for a fast, fearless, and deeply creative Video & Content Editor who loves social media and gaming and has the fire in the belly to make a lot of content very well, very quickly. You'll be the primary editor in a small social team, crafting native, thumb-stopping video for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, X/Twitter, Facebook, Twitch highlights, and more. You combine elite editing craft with a marketer's mindset: you care about retention graphs, watch time, and shares just as much as transitions and color grading. Alongside the Content, Insights & Planning Manager, you'll be a key navigator for the Social Media Director, Community Manager, and Esports & Influencer Managers,helping them see what formats, hooks, and stories are truly working and what we should scale globally. You treat attention as something you “day trade” every week: constantly cutting, testing, and iterating in response to what audiences are actually responding to. **High-volume, high-quality editing** - Edit a high volume of platform-native videos with speed and precision,multiple pieces per day/week,while maintaining a consistently high bar for quality and brand voice. - Produce videos optimized for mobile-first, sound-on and sound-off viewing (9:16, 4:5, 1:1, etc.) with strong hooks in the first seconds, tight pacing, and clear storytelling. - Rapidly turn live streams, gameplay, product reveals, sponsor moments, and creator collaborations into short-form highlights and longer-form cutdowns when needed. **Creative testing & data-informed iteration** - Partner closely with the Content, Insights & Planning Manager to test hooks, intros, formats, captions, and thumbnails; use performance data to decide which edits to scale, tweak, or kill. - Treat analytics as creative feedback: you're excited to change your edit style based on watch-time drop-offs, replay rates, or comment sentiment. - Help the team build a culture of constant, low-friction experimentation rather than chasing one “perfect” hero asset. **Trend and culture-native storytelling** - Stay deeply plugged into gaming culture, memes, slang, platform-native humor, and niche sub-communities (competitive players, casual gamers, streamers, etc.) and reflect that fluently in your edits. - Ensure we show up authentically on each platform and for each region,respecting local nuances while protecting the core SteelSeries brand voice. **Systems, templates & speed for the whole team** - Curate and maintain a library of editable project files, templates, lower-thirds, color presets, motion graphics, SFX, and music beds that make it easier and faster for you and others to execute. - Build repeatable systems and checklists that shorten production cycles and allow the team to scale content output without losing consistency. - Collaborate with the broader social, creative, and influencer teams to define best practices for shooting, framing, and delivering footage so downstream edits are faster and cleaner. **Quality, compliance & organization** - Implement platform best practices for captions, on-screen text, motion graphics, and sound design to maximize view-through and engagement. - Ensure all edits meet accessibility, copyright, and brand safety standards (e.g., captioning, subtitles, music licensing). - Maintain clean project structure, version control, and documentation so other editors can easily pick up your work. **Experience & craft** - Extensive experience editing social-first content for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, X/Twitter, Facebook, and similar platforms, with a portfolio that proves it. - Deep proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro (or equivalent) and strong skills in After Effects/motion graphics, basic color correction, and audio mixing. - Demonstrated ability to work fast at scale,delivering multiple strong edits per week without losing narrative clarity or brand consistency. - Experience with captioning, subtitles, sound design, and accessibility best practices across platforms. **Mindset & behaviors** - You see yourself as a marketer-editor: you care about the numbers and the storytelling equally. - A passion for making: your instinct is to open the timeline and start cutting, not to over-theorize. You ship, learn, and ship again. - Data doesn’t offend you,it excites you. If a format you love underperforms, you’re the first to propose a new hook or structure and test it. - You speak the language of gaming communities while keeping us on-brand; you know when a meme will land and when it will backfire. - You’re comfortable giving and receiving feedback quickly and directly, and you actively help the rest of the team improve their video instincts. **Bonus points** - Experience with 3D text/graphics, motion templates, or web-native templates that speed up re-edits. - Familiarity with clipping workflows from livestreams, VO/ADR coordination, or sponsor integration. - Evidence that your edits have moved the numbers (e.g., projects where your approach increased CTR, watch time, or shares). ## Skills ### Required - Adobe Premiere Pro - After Effects - Motion graphics - Basic color correction - Audio mixing - Captioning - Subtitles - Sound design - Accessibility best practices ### Nice to have - 3D text/graphics - Motion templates - Web-native templates - Clipping workflows - VO/ADR coordination - Sponsor integration