Lead Editor and Motion Designer, The Hustle YouTube Channel

POS-11966

Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 5 pm ET Tues Feb 17th.

Overview
The Hustle is hiring a full-time Lead Editor & Motion Designer to define and scale the visual language of our YouTube-first editorial videos (long-form and Shorts). Youll own edits end-to-end elevate and maintain our graphics and motion system and turn scripts into high-retention visually coherent stories that make complex business and tech topics easy to follow and fun to watch.

Responsibilities

Deliver post-production for long and short-form stories:

• Edit YouTube-first long-form videos from audio string-out to final cut on deadline along with Shorts (both repurposed and original).
• Design and animate clear data visualizations diagrams and explainer sequences for business and tech topics.
• Build mixed-media comps that serve editorial beats and keep viewers engaged.
• Handle color audio cleanup music selection and basic mix.
• Collaborate with writers/hosts and stakeholders; give and receive concise actionable feedback.

Be a visual leader:

• Provide edit-focused notes on pacing clarity music motion and visual alignment.
• Lead recurring edit reviews mentorship and postmortems that turn visual performance data and team feedback into evolving best practices for the channel.
• Guide our team of editors and animators with specific actionable feedback to continually improve creative output workflows and postproduction processes.
• Do visual script passes: match words to visuals flag gaps and suggest structural or pacing fixes to improve retention.
• Support visual planning calls turning creative direction and performance insights into motion/graphics plans.
• Lead recurring visual strategy meetings that analyze recent videos and translate performance insights into clear actionable improvements for editors and animators.
• Assist in managing external postproduction contractors ensuring their work aligns with our visual style guide deadlines and performance goals.

Optimize visual packaging across the channel:

• Maintain and elevate the channel graphics package (lower thirds transitions charts maps iconography) for a consistent and distinct visual style.
• Manage templates assets and project files for speed and repeatability; document and uphold our visual style guide and post-production best practices.
• Iterate on formats and visuals based on audience feedback and performance metrics (e.g. retention click-through AVD).

What You Bring

• 5 years of editorial or documentary-style editing with motion design for digital video and a portfolio of YouTube-optimized work (8 minute videos).
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite including After Effects Premiere Pro Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Strong editorial instincts: story structure pacing clarity and accuracy with an eye toward YouTube audience behavior and retention.
• Expertise in color grading audio cleanup and export/deliverables for YouTube.
• Experience building and maintaining consistent design systems and iterating on them based on feedback and performance data.
• Familiarity with modern creative pipelines project workflows and video archiving and data management best practices.

We Are Looking for People Who

• Effectively multitask and methodically assess and resolve technical and creative issues in a timely scalable manner.
• Enhance live-action videos with intricate and engaging animations and identify when animated pieces can drive the narrative.
• Follow and elevate brand guidelines with a keen eye for detail and consistency.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across writers hosts creatives and brand teams.
• Incorporate feedback well and provide clear edit-focused notes to others.
• Work effectively within a team structure while also being able to operate independently with minimal supervision.
• Are highly organized detail-oriented and self-directed building systems that help the whole team move faster.

Nice to Have

• Experience developing or refreshing a channel-level graphics package.
• Data visualization experience for business/tech stories.
• Familiarity with Descript Riverside YouTube Studio and Google Drive.
• Efficient stock/archival sourcing within brand and legal guidelines.

About The Hustle

The Hustle is business news for people who hate typically boring business newsdelivering fun overlooked stories in a sharp punchy package. We offer levity and noveltyin stark contrast to the corporate self-serious tone of the average business media outlet.

The Hustle is a business editorial brand with 1.5M subscribers across The Hustle Daily newsletter The Hustle Daily Show podcast and The Hustle YouTube channel. We produce original long- and short-form video stories offering offbeat and informative takes on headlines trends and oddities in business and tech.

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