Remote YouTube Video Editor in London

Footballco is the world’s biggest dedicated football content and media business, reaching more than 400 million football fans across the world each month. With a growing roster of brands including Goal, Voetbalzone, and Spox, we have a unique reach and depth of understanding within the game. This role is a 9-month Fixed Term Contract.

Footballco is looking for a creative and accomplished Video Editor specialising in long-form YouTube content, who is passionate about football and understands what it takes to create entertaining, engaging, and high-performing video content. Our ever-growing team is constantly innovating with new video formats to share with our audiences across YouTube and other platforms. We’re looking for a video editor who wants to be at the forefront of that, with a particular focus on quiz, game, and entertainment-led formats created for commercial clients.

The successful applicant will play an important role in the creation of regular, repeatable YouTube formats, helping to turn strong concepts and recorded material into polished, entertaining shows that hold an audience’s attention from the opening seconds through to the end. This role requires someone who understands that editing YouTube content is about more than simply assembling footage. You will need a strong understanding of audience retention, pacing, storytelling, character, comedy, competition, and engagement, and how editorial choices can influence how long an audience stays with a video.

You will be working on content where the audience is often following a game, quiz, challenge, or competition. The person we are looking for is immersed in YouTube and digital video, understands current trends in long-form content, and has a strong instinct for what makes a show entertaining and watchable. Excellent communication, organisation, and planning skills are also essential.

• Editing long-form YouTube videos, particularly quiz, game, challenge, and entertainment-led formats.
• Turning recorded material into polished, engaging, and repeatable ‘show’ content.
• Working closely with producers to understand the creative concept, format, narrative, and intended audience.
• Creating strong openings and maintaining momentum throughout the edit.
• Structuring games and quizzes so that the viewer clearly understands the premise, stakes, progression, and outcome.
• Using editing, graphics, sound design, music, reactions, and cutaways to enhance entertainment value and create a compelling viewing experience.
• Developing and improving repeatable video formats so that each episode feels consistent while continuing to evolve.
• Editing versions and cutdowns where required for other platforms and promotional purposes.
• Managing projects and media throughout the production process, ensuring that all files are stored on the server using agreed folder structures, naming conventions, and organisational standards.
• Maintaining clean and consistent project files, including source media, Premiere projects, graphics, audio, exports, and other associated assets.
• Ensuring completed projects and source material are properly backed up, clearly labelled, and structured for long-term storage and archive.
• Project management and scheduling, ensuring work is delivered on time and project status is clearly communicated.
• Proofreading subtitles, graphics, and video content, and shaping scripts where required.
• Collaborating with producers, designers, audience development teams, commercial teams, and people beyond the in-house team.
• Working with third-party assets and the wider Footballco network where required.
• Ensuring all content meets the required technical, editorial, brand, and commercial standards before delivery.

A portfolio/showreel is essential, including previous examples of long-form YouTube content. This should demonstrate experience with quiz, game, challenge, entertainment, or sports formats, as well as an ability to create polished ‘show’ content that is designed to retain an audience and perform commercially.

• Proven experience editing long-form YouTube content, ideally entertainment, quiz, game, challenge, sports, or studio-based formats.
• A strong understanding of YouTube audience retention, pacing, and the editorial techniques used to maintain viewer interest throughout a video.
• An understanding of how to build anticipation, jeopardy, competition, and payoff through editing.
• Experience using reactions, cutaways, graphics, music, sound design, punch-ins, and other editorial techniques to enhance entertainment and engagement.
• A strong instinct for comedy, personality, and character, knowing when to let a moment breathe and when to use the edit to heighten it.
• Ability to structure quiz and game formats clearly, ensuring the audience understands the rules, stakes, questions, answers, scores, and progression.
• Experience working with graphics, motion graphics, music, and sound design to create polished, commercially viable show content.
• Desired knowledge of After Effects and Photoshop.
• An understanding of the specific requirements and opportunities of YouTube, including long-form viewing behaviour, audience retention, and the importance of strong openings.
• Experience working to brand guidelines and applying client assets accurately and consistently.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage projects and media using consistent file structures, naming conventions, and version control.
• An understanding of good media management and archiving practices, ensuring project files, source media, exports, and associated assets are stored securely and can be easily located and retrieved.
• Impeccable collaboration skills to work with producers, audience development teams, commercial stakeholders, and the wider Footballco network.
• Capable of managing multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining a high standard of creative output.
• A keen interest in the latest developments in YouTube, entertainment formats, and digital video production.
• Candidates should be able to demonstrate strong editorial judgement and an understanding of why particular creative and editing choices make content more engaging.
• Relevant university degree, equivalent qualification, or demonstrable professional experience in video production, editing, YouTube, or another relevant multimedia field.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.