Short-Form Editor
Location: Based in or commutable to London. Hybrid, with regular time in person
Reports To: Creative Director / Head of Short Form
The Opportunity
We create ambitious short-form videos that help real people make their dreams happen.
We are looking for an exceptional Short-Form Editor to shape our stories in the edit, not just cut them. You will turn raw footage into tight, emotional clips that stop the scroll and keep people watching to the last second. This is a hands-on role for someone with strong instincts for pacing, who brings ideas to the table and keeps up with how social-first storytelling is changing.
Your mission: Turn raw footage into short videos people cannot scroll past.
What You Will Own
- Edit to a high standard. Take raw footage and craft it into short-form videos with strong pacing, clear structure and real emotional impact, from first cut to final export.
- Protect the brand. Keep a consistent editing style that matches the Simon Squibb brand identity and tone in every video
- Win the first seconds. Build strong opening hooks and retention beats, so every video earns the viewer's attention and keeps it.
- Bring the video to life. Use motion graphics, on-screen text and sound design to maximise viewer engagement.
- Think past the footage. Spot the moments that do not exist yet, suggesting pickups, b-roll, graphics or voiceover that make the video land harder.
- Bring ideas to the table. Contribute to concept development, test new content formats and spot emerging trends in social-first storytelling.
- Strengthen the message. Give feedback on how editing choices can enhance Simon's message, mission and overall brand growth.
- Sweat the details. Bring colour, sound mix, captions and titles to a consistently high, on-brand standard, in the right format for each platform, before anything goes out.
- Manage multiple edits. Juggle a high volume of videos at once, hitting deadlines without letting quality slip on any of them.
- Champion feedback. Work closely with the team to protect the story intent set before filming, and turn notes into sharper cuts without losing your own creative point of view.
What Great Looks Like
You are not simply cutting clips together. You are the person who can look at raw footage, find the few seconds that matter, and build them into a video that hits hard in the first second and stays with the viewer after the last. The team should be able to trust that every video looks and sounds like Simon, protects the story, and is ready to post with minimal rework.
How Success Will Be Measured
- Videos consistently perform well, with strong watch time and retention.
- Every video feels on brand in style, tone and quality.
- Edits reach the team polished and ready to post with minimal rework.
- Videos are delivered on time, even when the schedule is busy.
- New formats, concepts and trends are proactively pitched and tested, without waiting to be asked.
- Your feedback on Simon's message and brand growth is trusted and used by the team.
Why Join Us
We exist to free people from what's holding them back and help them build a life of purpose and fulfillment. Working on short-form content puts you at the heart of that mission, shaping how Simon's message reaches people every day on social. You will have real creative control in the edit, the freedom to test new formats, and access to extraordinary stories most editors never get near.
About Dream
Dream is built on one mission: to help 10 million people start a business.
We believe everyone could be living their dream and positively impacting the world if they had the right access to opportunity, no matter where they are starting from.
So we are building the world’s best place to start a business - one connected ecosystem bringing together everything someone needs to start, build and grow.
At Dream, help is our number one priority. We will never charge for help, and each month we commit at least 10% of our profits to give directly back to dreamers in our community.
We’re ambitious about what we’re building, we move fast, and we care deeply about the people we’re building it for.
If you want to build something that could genuinely change millions of people’s lives, we can’t wait to meet you.
