Video Editor / VFX Editor
Video Editor / VFX Editor Peterson Academy | Full-Time | $100,000–$120,000 Peterson Academy is seeking a highly skilled Video Editor / VFX Editor to join our creative team full-time. This role is ideal for someone who is not only technically excellent in post- production, but also understands how to create compelling cinematic, performance-based, social-first content that captures attention quickly and holds it. The ideal candidate has deep mastery of DaVinci Resolve, strong experience with multi-cam editing workflows, and the ability to bring polished visual effects, motion graphics, and cinematic finishing to short-form content.
Responsibilities
- Edit high-quality social media ads, trailers, reels, and other video assets for Peterson Academy.
Ability to edit multi-cam timelines efficiently, syncing, organizing, cutting, and polishing footage from multiple camera angles.
- Create engaging short-form content optimized for social media platforms, with a strong
understanding of performance hooks, retention-driven pacing, and scroll-stopping openings. Add professional visual effects, motion graphics, titles, transitions, compositing, and other post- production enhancements.
- Work primarily in DaVinci Resolve, including editing, color, audio finishing, and delivery
workflows.
- Collaborate with the creative, marketing, and production teams to translate briefs into polished
video assets.
- Maintain a high standard of quality across all deliverables, ensuring consistency with Peterson Academy’s brand, tone, and visual identity.
- Manage multiple projects at once while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment.
Requirements
- Mastery of DaVinci Resolve is required.
Strong VFX and motion graphics experience using tools such as Cinema 4D, Adobe After
- Effects, or comparable software.
Proven experience editing multi-cam timelines.Experience creating content for social media, especially ads, reels, shorts, and performance- focused creative. Strong understanding of social media video structure, including hooks, pacing, subtitles, pattern interrupts, visual retention, and direct-response creative formats. Excellent eye for pacing, storytelling, sound design, color, typography, and visual polish. Ability to take creative direction, work collaboratively, and also operate independently. Strong organizational skills and ability to manage large amounts of media, footage, and project files. A portfolio or reel demonstrating editing, VFX, motion graphics, multi-cam work, and social media content is REQUIRED.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience editing educational content, online courses, podcast-style content, lectures, interviews, or long-form intellectual material. Experience editing paid social ads for Meta, YouTube, TikTok, or similar platforms. Knowledge of color grading, sound design, and finishing workflows inside DaVinci Resolve. Familiarity with the work of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and a strong interest in the intellectual tradition Peterson Academy is built around, including the humanities, Great Books, philosophy, psychology, history, theology, literature, and the foundations of Western civilization.
Compensation
This is a full-time position with a salary range of $100,000–$120,000, depending on experience. About Peterson Academy Peterson Academy is a global education movement built to challenge the decay of modern higher education and reclaim the tradition of serious, humanities-based learning. Through rigorous courses taught by world-class professors and some of the greatest minds alive, Peterson Academy offers students a path back to what universities were meant to pursue: truth, beauty, virtue, history, meaning, and the foundations of Western civilization. Please send a cover letter and your portfolio/reel to [email protected]