FULL-TIME LONG-FORM & SHORT-FORM VIDEO EDITOR

Full-Time Remote Position
Schedule: 40 hours per week
Compensation: $1,200–$1,600 USD per month based on experience, portfolio and paid-trial performance
Long-term position

ABOUT US

The McGraw Group is a husband-and-wife real estate business led by Torrey and Keela McGraw. We serve clients throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth region.

Video is an important part of how we grow our business, educate our audience and attract real estate clients.

Our content includes:

• DFW relocation guidance
• Mansfield real estate
• Neighborhood and city comparisons
• New construction
• Housing-market information
• Local developments
• Home and community tours
• Property listings
• Client-success stories
• Behind-the-scenes content
• Keela and Torrey’s personalities and perspectives
• McGraw Group brand content

Keela is currently our primary on-camera host, but this position supports the entire McGraw Group. Videos may feature Keela, Torrey, both of us together, clients, properties, communities or local businesses.

ABOUT THE POSITION

We are looking for a full-time video editor who can handle both long-form YouTube content and short-form social-media content.

This is not a per-video freelance position.

You will be a regular member of our team, and video editing will be your primary professional responsibility. We want someone who will learn our brand, understand our audience, recognize our individual personalities and help us develop a consistent but flexible editing style.

This is a salaried, full-time position. There is no fixed monthly cap on the number of videos you may edit.

You will manage the reasonable editing workload that fits within a 40-hour workweek. Weekly priorities will be based on publishing deadlines, business needs and project complexity.

We value quality and reliability. We do not expect rushed work, unlimited revisions or an unreasonable workload. We do expect full-time focus, honest communication and consistent completion of agreed priorities.

CURRENT CONTENT CADENCE

Our current long-form YouTube goal is two videos per week:

• One informational, relocation, development, market or neighborhood video
• One home or community tour

You will also edit short-form content throughout the week for:

• Instagram Reels
• Facebook Reels
• TikTok
• YouTube Shorts
• Listing campaigns
• Client case studies
• Testimonials
• Local news and development updates
• Keela and Torrey’s personal-brand content
• McGraw Group promotional content

The short-form workload will vary based on our content calendar, available footage, listings, closings, local news and business activity.

LONG-FORM RESPONSIBILITIES

• Edit informational YouTube videos
• Edit home and community tours
• Strengthen the opening 30–60 seconds
• Remove mistakes, repetition and unnecessary pauses
• Improve pacing while keeping the speaker’s delivery natural
• Shape footage into a clear and compelling story
• Identify sections that should be shortened, rearranged or visually supported
• Find relevant B-roll when it is not provided
• Use maps and location visuals when helpful
• Display important facts, prices, locations and statistics clearly
• Add clean on-screen text and graphics
• Clean and balance audio
• Perform consistent color correction
• Select appropriate licensed music
• Use sound design tastefully
• Add provided disclosures or disclaimers
• Complete revisions accurately
• Export platform-ready files
• Organize and transfer editable project files

INFORMATIONAL VIDEO STYLE

Informational videos should:

• Capture attention quickly
• Be easy for relocation viewers to understand
• Use B-roll that directly supports the narration
• Use maps and graphics when they provide meaningful context
• Maintain visual interest without becoming distracting
• Feel professional, current and trustworthy
• Preserve the speaker’s personality and natural delivery
• Help viewers make real decisions about Dallas–Fort Worth

Subjects may include:

• DFW suburb comparisons
• Mansfield developments
• Housing-market changes
• Relocation decisions
• Neighborhood differences
• New construction
• Buyer and seller education
• Property taxes, PIDs and MUDs
• What different budgets purchase
• Regional news affecting homeowners and buyers

HOME AND COMMUNITY TOUR STYLE

Tour videos should:

• Showcase the property clearly
• Preserve a natural sense of movement through the home
• Feature our personalities and useful commentary
• Highlight important property and community details
• Include facts without cluttering the screen
• Use exterior, amenity and neighborhood footage when relevant
• Feel polished without being overedited
• Help viewers learn more than they could from listing photographs

Tours may include:

• Selfie-style hooks and introductions
• Point-of-view walkthrough footage
• Keela or Torrey speaking inside the property
• Conversations between Keela and Torrey
• Community amenities
• Builder information
• New-construction considerations
• Buyer guidance
• Calls to action

SHORT-FORM RESPONSIBILITIES

• Edit original social-first videos
• Repurpose appropriate long-form footage
• Edit direct-to-camera phone videos
• Turn informal phone footage into polished content
• Edit listing and property Reels
• Create local-news and development videos
• Edit client-success and case-study videos
• Create behind-the-scenes content
• Edit conversations between Keela and Torrey
• Add accurate burned-in captions
• Create strong visual openings
• Use pattern changes when they improve retention
• Format videos for 9:16 viewing
• Follow platform safe zones
• Use platform-appropriate pacing
• Select appropriate B-roll and music
• Deliver clean files without platform watermarks
• Create alternate opening hooks when requested

Some short-form videos will come from long-form footage. Others will be created specifically for social media.

You should be comfortable turning the following into effective content:

• Selfie videos
• Voiceovers
• Property footage
• Community footage
• Photographs
• Screenshots
• Maps
• Interviews
• Client testimonials
• Behind-the-scenes clips
• Unorganized phone footage
• Conversations between multiple people

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT

Excellent English is required for this position.

You must be able to:

• Understand conversational American English
• Understand different speaking speeds and natural speech patterns
• Recognize humor, tone, emphasis and intended meaning
• Understand real estate and location-related terminology
• Identify statements that may need clarification
• Write clearly and professionally in English
• Communicate confidently during team meetings
• Create accurate English captions
• Correct obvious captioning and transcription errors
• Recognize awkward grammar
• Understand detailed written and verbal instructions
• Ask clear follow-up questions
• Distinguish between words that sound similar
• Accurately spell names, cities, communities, builders and real estate terms

We should not have to rewrite captions because the editor did not understand what was said.

EDITORIAL JUDGMENT

We do not want an editor who only follows instructions mechanically.

You should be able to recognize:

• A weak opening
• Unnecessary repetition
• A section that needs B-roll
• A factual statement that may need an on-screen source
• Footage that does not match the narration
• A moment that could become a strong short-form video
• A section that moves too slowly
• A section that has been overedited
• An opportunity to better showcase someone’s personality
• A potential factual or visual inconsistency
• A caption that does not match what the speaker said

If something is unclear or possibly inaccurate, ask before publishing it.

OUR PREFERRED STYLE

Our videos should feel:

• Professional
• Conversational
• Modern
• Visually engaging
• Informative
• Personality-led
• Appropriate for real estate and relocation viewers

We want editing that helps the viewer understand the subject and connect with the people on screen.

PLEASE AVOID

• Excessive transitions
• Constant zooming
• Distracting sound effects
• Unrelated luxury footage
• Generic stock footage that does not match DFW
• Meme-style editing unless specifically requested
• Full-time captions covering an entire long-form video
• Overly cinematic editing that slows the story
• Repetitive templates
• Making every Reel look identical
• Graphics that overwhelm the person or property
• Inventing facts, statistics or property details
• Copying another creator’s exact style

B-ROLL AND ASSET RESEARCH

You will often receive footage, photographs, scripts and source links.

You will also be expected to:

• Find additional commercially licensed B-roll
• Locate appropriate geographic and lifestyle visuals
• Organize downloaded assets
• Track the source of third-party footage and music
• Avoid footage that misrepresents a city or community
• Confirm when an asset requires a separate license
• Use maps accurately
• Maintain a reusable library of approved McGraw Group footage

All music, video, photographs and graphics must be properly licensed for commercial use.

WORKFLOW AND COLLABORATION

You will work with Torrey, Keela and other members of our content team.

You will be expected to:

• Review each project brief
• Confirm that required assets were received
• Communicate questions early
• Provide realistic completion dates
• Maintain the project tracker
• Submit drafts for review
• Complete revisions on time
• Keep project files organized
• Follow agreed naming conventions
• Build reusable editing systems
• Help maintain a publishing backlog
• Participate in scheduled team meetings
• Communicate immediately if a deadline is at risk

We do not want to discover on publication day that a video will not be completed.

WORKLOAD AND PRIORITIES

This is a salaried, full-time position—not a per-video contract.

Some weeks may contain more short-form videos. Other weeks may contain more complex long-form projects.

Weekly priori