Our Dubai office is looking for a Senior English + Arabic speaking editor to cut together amazing video content. If your eye for detail and whether a shot should be extended by just one frame is beyond comparison, we’d love to see your portfolio.
Requirements
- In this full-time position, you’ll edit all types of content.
- You'll be part of our global films team, you’ll also adapt all kinds of video content to global social media campaigns.
- You’ll adapt masters to all kinds of platforms, lengths and languages, ensuring each and every video is fit-for-format and looks pixel perfect. Adaptation is understood as: Perform adaptation to master videos, such replacing supers amp; end cards, sound mixing voice-over, adding subtitling
- You make sure deadlines are met and flag the ones that aren’t feasible upfront
- You communicate on a daily basis with Project Managers in the MediaMonks team, operating from different offices across the Globe.
Background amp; Skills
- You can clearly express yourself in English and Arabic, in writing and orally.
- You have at least 5+ years of experience as a Video Editor.
- The life of an editor is one of deadlines and deliveries (and renders that take forever to finish).
- Working with tight deadlines fits you like skinny jeans; you never fail on delivering.
- You can impress under pressure, taking responsibility for your own workload, time management, note-making and feedback-processing, as well as any other actions required to make the work great.
- You can prioritize and problem-solve, not hitting the panic button for any bump in the road.
- You are well-organized when it comes to layers and folders; final_version_v7_def2.mov is your nemesis.
- You’re intimately familiar with the basics of post-production, especially when it comes to animation
- You understand the post production workflow and are aware of how things need to be done in order to follow a proper structure
- When you’re working on a project you really own it and can propose creative solutions when it comes to editing and storytelling
- Stock footage research capabilities is a plus.