Video Editor & Motion Designer

About this role

We’re hiring a Video Editor & Motion Designer to join our team and turn recorded footage (tutorials, case studies, webinars, and talking-head content) into clean, engaging, publish-ready videos. You’ll work across two types of projects:

#1 – ScaleMath Studios Our in-house video content and YouTube channel. This includes our podcast https://scalemath.com/podcast/.

#2 – Advisory & Services Video and content assets we produce for companies we work with.

Here are examples of our current styles: https://scalemath.com/video-examples

While we will welcome improvements to this style over time, please do not apply if you are not comfortable producing videos in the same style as any of the 7 videos on this page.

This role is for someone who cares deeply, to the point of obsession, about:

- Attention to detail

- Pacing

- Clarity

- Polish

- Viewer comprehension

- Using motion graphics to support the story/message (not distract from it)

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Edit long-form recorded footage into tight, high-retention videos

- Improve pacing, structure, and clarity while preserving the speaker’s natural delivery

- Create and integrate motion graphics (lower thirds, callouts, simple explainer sequences, UI highlights, transitions)

- Add B-roll, overlays, and on-screen text where it improves understanding

- Handle audio cleanup, leveling, and general sound polish

- Produce rough cuts and iterate quickly based on feedback

- Deliver final exports optimized for YouTube and other channels

- Maintain a consistent style and quality bar across multiple brands and projects

- Improve our workflow over time (templates, presets, reusable motion systems)

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- Proven experience editing YouTube videos or long-form educational content

- Strong editorial judgment: pacing, structure, clarity, and storytelling

- Motion design ability (After Effects or equivalent) for clean, modern, functional animation

- High attention to detail across cuts, timing, audio, and on-screen text

- Strong taste: you know what looks modern vs outdated

- Comfortable taking feedback and iterating quickly

- Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistently

TOOLS

You can use your preferred tools, but most of our workflow is compatible with:

- Descript

- Premiere Pro

- After Effects

- Frame.io http://Frame.io

BONUS POINTS (NOT REQUIRED)

- Experience editing SaaS, B2B, or product-led content

- Ability to create a reusable motion system for a channel (titles, lower thirds, callouts, transitions)

- Thumbnail design experience

- Familiarity with retention editing principles for YouTube

- Experience working with founders and subject matter experts

HOW TO APPLY

Please send:

- 2–4 examples you’re proud of (YouTube links preferred). We are looking for ones that match (or are similar to) the styles of the 7 examples provided here https://scalemath.com/video-examples.

- A short note about your role in each project (editing only vs editing + motion)

- Your typical turnaround time for a 10–20 minute video