Video Editor, YouTube & Motion Graphics - Full-Time Remote

We're hiring a video editor to join Distinctiva, a B2B content agency running LinkedIn, YouTube and newsletters for founders, CEOs and CMOs at B2B SaaS, martech, sales tech and AI companies.

This is a full-time, long-term remote position.

We're a small team, so we're looking for someone who wants to own how a video looks and feels, from raw footage to final export.

The bar here is animation. If your edits are cuts, zooms and stock b-roll, this isn't the role. We want someone whose motion work is the reason a video looks expensive.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Ideally, you have:

• 3+ years editing long-form YouTube videos, with channels and specific videos you can point to
• Advanced After Effects. Motion graphics and animation are your main strength, not something you outsource or avoid
• Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve for the edit itself
• Experience animating ideas, not just text. Diagrams, data, frameworks, product walkthroughs, before and after comparisons
• Retention editing. Cold opens, pacing, pattern interrupts, cutting dead air, knowing when a section has gone on too long
• Sound design and audio cleanup. Music selection, mixing, noise removal, levels that hold up in headphones and on a laptop speaker
• Color grading talking-head footage shot in different rooms, on different cameras, in different light
• Custom animated captions, lower thirds and end cards that follow a brand kit
• Experience cutting vertical Shorts and social clips out of long-form
• Comfort working from a script and a set of notes, then making the visual calls yourself
• Sourcing your own stock, screen recordings and reference footage
• Reliable turnaround and clear communication about where a cut stands
• Good written English

Bonus:

• 3D work in Blender or Cinema 4D
• Experience on a business, tech or education channel rather than vlog or gaming
• Thumbnail design or a strong illustration eye
• Experience building reusable After Effects templates and a motion brand kit
• Experience using AI tools inside the edit, like Descript, Topaz, ElevenLabs or Runway
• You can read a retention graph and say what caused the drop

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

You'll take ownership of videos from beginning to end.

This includes:

• Building the edit from a script and raw recordings
• Designing and animating the visuals that carry the explanation
• Cutting cold opens that hold the opening minute
• Sound design, mixing and color
• Captions, lower thirds, end screens
• Pulling Shorts and social clips out of every long-form video
• Turning around feedback in review rounds
• Keeping our templates and motion assets organized so the look stays consistent across channels

We're looking for someone who can watch a rough cut and say why the middle drags, then fix it.

THE WORK ITSELF

Our videos are about content strategy, LinkedIn, AI and how B2B companies actually run their marketing.

Talking head, screen recordings, and a lot of on-screen explanation. Frameworks, platform mechanics, numbers pulled from real studies. The animation does a big share of the teaching, so it has to be clear before it's pretty.

You'd be working on Diandra Escobar's channel and on client channels for founders and executives.

YOU SHOULD ACTUALLY WATCH YOUTUBE

You should have opinions about editing.

Which channels get it right, which ones over-edit, which effects are done. If we ask you who your favourite editors are and why, you should have an answer ready.

WHY JOIN DISTINCTIVA

We're growing, and you'd be joining while the video team is still small. You'd have real influence over how our channels look.

• 100% remote
• Full-time
• Long-term position
• Small team
• Lots of ownership
• Work on founder and executive channels in B2B SaaS and AI
• Room to grow as the video side of the agency grows

SALARY

Salary is negotiable and based on experience.

When applying, please tell us the monthly salary you would be looking for in USD for a full-time, long-term position.

HOW TO APPLY

Please include the following in your application:

1. Your portfolio or reel, plus links to full videos you edited (not just the reel).
2. The best video you've personally worked on and exactly what you were responsible for, including what someone else did.
3. Your strongest animation or motion graphics work, and how you built it.
4. A video where your editing kept people watching, and what you did specifically to make that happen.
5. Which tools you use and what you use each one for.
6. An example of a fast turnaround you handled.
7. Your expected monthly salary in USD.
8. When you would be available to start.

IMPORTANT: Start your application with the word DISTINCTIVA so we know you've read the full job post.

Show us the work. We care far more about the videos than the cover letter.