Assistant Editor - SixTwentySix

Position Summary:

As an Assistant Editor, you'll support our post production team delivering high-quality commercials, branded content, and music videos for clients. Working closely with our post producer, editors, and freelance post production crew, you'll execute projects efficiently and on schedule.

In this role, your responsibilities will include preparing projects for editing, sourcing stock footage and images, cataloguing digital media, and assisting with editing to ensure videos meet client guidelines. You'll also prepare viewing links for clients and manage archival files using cloud storage services, ensuring easy access to files and safekeeping. You'll assist in the development of tools and systems to provide optimal organization structure, supporting the continued growth of our company.

Your responsibilities may also include coordinating between post artists and vendors to ensure efficient and consistent communication, as well as on-time delivery. On occasion, you may also be asked to communicate directly with agencies/clients to ensure they are up-to-date on revisions, project next steps, and final delivery progress .

As an Assistant Editor, you play a vital role in ensuring our company produces high-quality work with a high-quality organized process that meets and exceeds client expectations. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with a team to meet tight deadlines.

About SixTwentySix:

At SixTwentySix, we've always been driven by a passion for storytelling. We exist to solve challenges by producing creative solutions that are culturally relevant. With our headquarters based in Culver City, Los Angeles, we operate nationally and internationally, creating premium content for the music video and branded industries. We maintain an in-office team with the flexibility to work from home on Fridays. Our values—Fueled By Passion, Stay Curious, If There’s A Will, There’s A Way, Your Next Five Moves, Do What You Say, and Make It Count—are the heartbeat of our business. They guide how we operate, innovate, and inspire. with a Billie Eilish music video that shifted the trajectory of her career (and ours), we’ve produced over 400 music videos and commercials. Today, as an award-winning studio we mainly operate in the branded content space for top brands like Samsung, eBay, and Turo. We pride ourselves on being a creative studio that offers clients an unmatched experience, producing culturally relevant work and being unapologetically ambitious. Our focus is putting brands at the center of culture and enriching today's generation through storytelling. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Work collaboratively with producers, editors, and other post-production crew to execute editing projects efficiently and effectively, ensuring that all projects are delivered on time and meet quality standards.

• Sync and organize raw footage, outputting it to a variety of formats to ensure seamless post-production processes and timely delivery of content.

• Prepare projects for editing by gathering elements, creating string-outs for producers and editors, and sourcing stock footage, B-Roll, and other images, with the goal of reducing editing time and enhancing the quality of the final product.

• Conduct thorough searches for stock footage, B-Roll, and other images to ensure that the video content is engaging and visually appealing to target audiences.

• Source appropriate stock music that enhances the impact of the video content and aligns with the client's branding and messaging.

• Catalogue digital media, ensuring proper labeling, storage, media-management, and archiving of files to maintain organization and accessibility, and improve efficiency.

• Edit videos using Adobe Premiere and After Effects, producing high-quality, engaging content that aligns with SixTwentySix's standards and meets client guidelines and expectations.

• Address edit revisions by making necessary adjustments to edit, graphic, color, and audio elements to ensure that videos meet client guidelines and expectations.

• Prepare viewing links for clients through frame.io, ensuring client feedback is incorporated and final deliverables meet their expectations.

• Manage storage of archival files, including raw media and finished deliverables, using frame.io and other cloud storage services, ensuring accessibility and security of files.

• Maintain schedule flexibility within reason to have availability evenings and weekends on an as-needed basis

Education & Experience: 

- 2+ years of AE experience working with a post production company

• High level of experience and comfort using Adobe Premiere

• Moderate experience using After Effects preferred

• Some experience with/working knowledge of basic sound design/mix preferred 

• Some experience with/working knowledge of basic color grade preferred

• Experience and comfort maintaining project assets on internal server systems

• Thorough and professional communication skills across email/Slack

About Our Benefits + Perks:

• Medical, Vision, Dental Benefits with portion covered by company 
• 401k with employer match
• PTO Policy
• WFH Fridays 
• Monday Lunches supplied by company

If this role sounds like a perfect fit for you please email careers@sixtwentysix.co. For best consideration, please include the job title and the source where you found this position in the subject line of your email. We look forward to potentially having you join our team at SixTwentySix!