Chief Clipping Officer in London

Company: Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future / Boxlight

Location: London, with flexible working

Role: Chief Clipping Officer (full-time, initially contractor with potential for full time).

Overview: We have spent five years interviewing prime ministers, entrepreneurs, scientists, creators and business leaders about how the world of work is changing. Across more than 250 interviews, there are thousands of brilliant moments: bold predictions, uncomfortable truths, practical advice, arguments that proved prescient and stories that deserve a much bigger audience. Our audience is extremely high level and discerning. We need to turn these long‑form videos into compelling, highly distributable short‑form content that travels further.

About the Role: As Chief Clipping Officer you will decide which ideas deserve to travel. This is one of the biggest skills of the future: judgment and prioritising out of 100+ hours of content is incredibly hard. Your job is not simply to cut videos shorter—it is to understand what makes somebody stop scrolling, stay watching and share an idea with someone else.

Responsibilities:

• Watch and understand our long‑form interviews, including the back catalogue.
• Identify moments with the greatest editorial, cultural or commercial potential.
• Transform those moments into excellent clips for LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts, Instagram and TikTok.
• Write hooks, headlines, captions and on‑screen text.
• Develop recurring formats.
• Respond quickly when an old conversation becomes newly relevant because of the news; develop a mental library of our content.
• Test different openings, lengths, edits and ways of framing the same idea.
• Track performance and use the results to improve what we make next.
• Work closely with Jimmy, our producers and editors to shape both distribution and future recordings.
• Help grow the Jimmy’s Jobs company page and archive into a genuine media asset.
• Occasionally explain to people that, yes, Chief Clipping Officer is a real job.

Next Steps (In due course): Build a searchable system for logging guests, themes, predictions, quotes and standout moments.

What We’re Looking For:

• Consume an unreasonable amount of online video.
• Instinctively recognise the sentence that will make people stop scrolling.
• Understand the difference between a provocative hook and empty clickbait.
• Can edit confidently.
• Know that the first two seconds matter, but so does the idea that follows them.
• Understand the different cultures of LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
• Have strong judgement around politics, business, technology and current affairs.
• Can spot when a three-year-old clip has suddenly become relevant again.
• Are organised enough to manage a substantial archive and fast enough to react to the moment.
• Care about results, but don’t believe every creative decision can be made by staring at a dashboard.
• Will be the sixth member of the team; we look for people that add culture, not just fit the culture.

You Need Not Have:

• Ten years of experience.
• A traditional media CV.
• To have already been a chief officer of anything.

What Success Looks Like:

• Understand which guests, subjects, hooks and formats perform best.
• Generate a certain number of clips per day and be responsible for posting them.
• Old conversations regularly reappear when they become relevant.
• Short‑form content generates meaningful audience growth, inbound opportunities and commercial leads.
• Create at least one format that feels unmistakably ours.
• Accompany Jimmy to events and plan clips that might travel on that day or the next; understand the news cycle.

How to Apply: Please send us a short introduction, three examples of clips you have made or helped shape, one clip from Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future that you think we have underused, your proposed repackaging and why it could travel, how many clips you could make per day, day rate / when you can start. This will be for an initial contract period, open to flexibility in number of days worked and where from. Include your LinkedIn profile, but no generic cover letter is required. Show us your judgement and best of luck shooting your shot.