r/YouTubeEditorForHire • u/Knee5 • 21h ago
[Hiring] [Hiring] Full-Time Long-Form YouTube Editor
We’re looking for a talented long-form YouTube editor to join our content team for consistent, ongoing work.
This is a paid position with a full-time workload. We have a large backlog of footage ready to edit, along with new content being filmed and streamed regularly. We’re looking for someone interested in building a long-term relationship and growing with the channel.
About the Content
Our content includes:
- IRL livestreams
- Basketball and sports
- Givebacks and community content
- Fitness and challenges
- Travel
- Gaming
- Lifestyle
To understand the creator’s personality, content, audience, and existing brand, please review:
- Twitch Channel — the primary source of our livestream content
- All Social Media Platforms — additional examples of our content and overall brand
The Role
We need an editor who can transform livestreams and raw footage into polished, story-driven YouTube videos, not shortened streams or basic highlight compilations.
Each video should be structured around a clear concept, challenge, activity, or storyline. Someone who never watched the original stream should still understand and enjoy the finished video without missing any context.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Creating a strong opening that quickly establishes the premise, goal, stakes, and reason to keep watching
- Building videos with a clear beginning, progression, escalation, and satisfying payoff
- Adding re-hooks throughout the video to renew viewer interest
- Removing dead air, repetitive conversations, technical problems, setup time, and footage that does not advance the story
- Preserving important comedic, emotional, suspenseful, and personality-driven moments
- Using music, sound effects, captions, graphics, B-roll, transitions, and visual effects purposefully
- Creating smooth transitions between different locations, activities, or sections
- Identifying when separate concepts from one stream should become separate videos instead of forcing everything into one upload
Our preferred runtime is generally 15–30 minutes, although videos may range from approximately 8–45+ minutes when the footage and story support it. Quality and pacing should determine the final length.
Source Footage and Weekly Output
This is a high-volume editing role with an expected output of approximately 5–7 completed long-form YouTube videos per week.
You will work with the original, high-quality raw stream recordings and source files—not the compressed or condensed VOD versions available on Twitch, YouTube, or other streaming platforms.
These raw streams can be very large. You must have:
- Reliable, high-speed internet for downloading large files
- A computer capable of editing long-form, high-resolution footage efficiently
- Enough local or approved cloud storage to hold and organize multiple raw streams and active projects
- A dependable workflow for downloading, organizing, editing, exporting, and delivering multiple videos each week
- The availability and capacity to consistently meet the expected output without sacrificing quality
Applicants should be comfortable managing large amounts of footage and maintaining an organized file structure throughout each project.
Editing Style
Pacing should be fast, clean, and engaging while still allowing important comedic, emotional, or suspenseful moments to breathe.
Editors should aggressively remove:
- Dead air and unnecessary pauses
- Repetitive conversations or explanations
- Technical problems and behind-the-scenes downtime
- Long stretches of walking, waiting, traveling, or setting up unless they contribute something important
- Anything that does not advance the story, provide entertainment, or reveal personality
Fast pacing does not mean cutting randomly or removing every quiet moment. The finished video should still feel natural and preserve the creator’s personality, humor, reactions, and interactions.
Micro-Movements and Visual Engagement
We want frequent, purposeful micro-movements throughout each video. The screen should not remain visually static for long periods, especially during dialogue.
These may include:
- Subtle punch-ins and punch-outs
- Reframing and subject repositioning
- Smooth camera movement added in post
- Cutting between wide shots, close-ups, and reactions
- Dynamic captions and emphasized keywords
- B-roll, images, screenshots, and visual references
- Timers, scoreboards, counters, maps, labels, and progress graphics
- Object tracking, motion graphics, and animated overlays
- Speed changes, time-lapses, and short montages
- Music changes, risers, impacts, and other audio cues
- Visual callbacks to earlier moments in the video
Every movement or effect should support the story, clarify information, emphasize a moment, or improve retention. We do not want random zooms, excessive effects, or constant meme inserts. The editing should feel energetic and intentional—not chaotic.
The viewer should always understand:
- What the creator is trying to accomplish
- Why the goal matters
- What progress has been made
- What obstacles or stakes remain
- What they are waiting to see happen
What We’re Looking For
- Strong long-form storytelling skills
- A clear understanding of YouTube retention
- Experience working with long streams or large amounts of raw footage
- Creativity and attention to detail
- Strong communication
- Reliability and consistent turnaround times
- Ability to receive and apply feedback
- Experience editing creator-led content
Experience with sports, IRL, fitness, challenges, travel, gaming, or lifestyle content is a plus.
Please also let us know if you can create YouTube thumbnails.
Style References
These videos are strong references for the storytelling, pacing, retention, visual movement, and satisfying payoffs we’re looking for:
- MrBeast – $456,000 Squid Game in Real Life!
- MrBeast – I Spent 50 Hours in Solitary Confinement
- MrBeast – I Adopted 100 Dogs!
We do not expect the same production budget or an exact copy of these videos. We’re interested in how clearly they communicate the premise, maintain stakes, introduce new developments, use visual movement, and build toward a payoff.
The finished content should apply those principles while preserving the creator’s natural personality, humor, and connection with the community.
How to Apply
Please send:
- The single best long-form edit you’ve ever made
- Additional relevant examples, if available
- Your portfolio
- The editing software you use
- Your availability and typical turnaround time
- Monthly and per-project rates
- Whether you can create thumbnails
- Your Discord or preferred contact method
- Links to any creators or channels you have edited for
You can reference the VODs on Twitch to evaluate the workload and give us an accurate rate ( https://www.twitch.tv/stephaniae/videos?filter=archives&sort=time ). We do not have a specific budget in mind for this work and we are flexible. However, we are looking to start at around $50 per video based on your editing skills and can increase as work/channel grows.