Assistant Editor, Post-Production Jobs

Big Think is a new media publisher exploring the world's biggest questions with the world's biggest thinkers. We release short-form interview videos with academics, researchers, scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and activists who are grappling with the world's biggest and most interesting questions.

Big Think and our e-Learning platform, Big Think+, are part of Freethink Media, a platform for people and ideas that are changing the world. Across our two flagship sites, Freethink and Big Think, we publish over 50 new articles and short documentaries every week to a community of more than 14 million followers and subscribers.

Watch this video to see what we're all about: www.freethink.com/about/careers

What You'll Do

• Optimize - Create derivative deliverables that are optimized for social media; specifically reframing Big Think videos into 4x5 and 9x16 aspect ratios.
• Coordinate and Evaluate - Help usher each video through the legal process, evaluating stock and releases.
• Remaster - You'll work closely with members of the Education team to remaster the audiovisual elements of our legacy learning library, including text treatment, color correction, and audio enhancements.
• Organize - Along with the Post-Production Supervisor, you will be the first and last person to touch our original videos. Responsibilities will span the entire post-production process from ingesting the footage from production to delivering the finished videos for exhibition.
• Archiving - Work and enhance legacy footage, particularly a variety of formats - such as AVCHD. Facilitate the movement of media to and from various cloud-based platforms.
• Finishing - Keep track of new assets incorporated into each piece during the editing process, such as music, graphical elements. When necessary, conform picture in preparation for color grading and conform sound in preparation for post-production sound design and mixing. Package together all final elements, render, and QC final cuts.
• Media Management - Sync footage, organize transcripts and color grade source footage. It is your job to do all the technical work to set up an offline editor for creative success.

What You'll Need

• Positive, hard-working, can-do attitude
• Aptitude for understanding the technical
• Initiative in solving new problems as they arise, both technical and creative
• Communication, organizational, and time management skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment
• Attention to detail
• Experience in the Adobe Creative Cloud, specifically Premiere Pro and After Effects, experience in DaVinci Resolve is a plus.
• Ability to learn quickly
• Pride in efficient work

What You'll Get Out Of this Opportunity

• Opportunity to have a hand in creating the video content Freethink releases
• Growth opportunities within a fast-growing company
• In-depth and technical understanding of post-production and professional digital video workflows
• Collaborative culture and mentorship in a startup environment
• Competitive salary and benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance, 401(k), Commuter Benefits, Mobile Phone Stipend, and more!
• Work from home flexibility

Do you meet most, but not all of the qualifications for this role? No worries - we invite you to apply if you think you'd be a great match!