Video Editor in Manchester

About The Bigger Brand

Location: Hybrid – UK-based, with twice-monthly team meetings in Manchester

Company: The Bigger Brand

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Hybrid – UK-based, with twice-monthly team meetings in Manchester

Salary: £25,000 – £30,000 DOE

Company: The Bigger Brand

Job Type: Full-time

The Bigger Brand is a growing marketing agency working with ambitious businesses across the UK.

We create high-performing campaigns, social content and brand-led video that is designed to actually get watched — not just sit in a Dropbox folder collecting dust.

We’re looking for a talentedVideo Editorto join our creative team and help us produce high-quality, engaging content across a growing portfolio of clients.

This is a predominantly remote role, but you must bebased in the UKand able to attend ourManchester office twice a monthfor team meetings, creative sessions and the occasional discussion about whether that transition was actually necessary.

The Role

As our Video Editor, you’ll take raw footage from our videographers and turn it into polished, engaging content for social media, advertising and wider marketing campaigns.

A large proportion of the content we create is short-form, so you need to understand how to grab attention quickly, tell a story and keep people watching.

That means knowing when to cut.

And, perhaps more importantly, knowing whennotto add another zoom, whoosh or explosion sound effect.

You’ll work closely with our videographers, social media managers, graphic designers and wider marketing team to develop content that looks great and performs well.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit short-form videos for Instagram Reels, TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn
• Edit longer-form brand, testimonial and documentary-style content
• Turn raw footage into polished, engaging final edits
• Create strong opening hooks that capture attention quickly
• Add subtitles, captions, graphics and motion elements
• Use music and sound design effectively
• Colour correct and grade footage where required
• Clean and improve audio
• Work with multi-camera footage when required
• Edit patient and client testimonials
• Create before-and-after treatment content
• Edit educational, FAQ and talking-head videos
• Repurpose longer footage into multiple short-form pieces of content
• Produce creative variations for paid advertising campaigns
• Follow client brand guidelines and maintain consistency
• Organise footage and project files properly
• Work from briefs while also bringing your own creative ideas
• Make amendments based on internal and client feedback
• Manage multiple clients and deadlines at the same time

And yes, occasionally someone will say:

“Can we make this more engaging?”

Your job is to know what that actually means.

What We’re Looking For

• A strong portfolio or showreel demonstrating commercial video editing
• Excellent understanding of pacing, storytelling and audience retention
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro
• Experience with After Effects would be highly beneficial
• Strong understanding of short-form social media content
• Good knowledge of sound design, music selection and audio mixing
• Understanding of colour correction and basic colour grading
• Ability to create engaging subtitles and motion graphics
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work quickly without sacrificing quality
• Comfortable working across multiple brands and editing styles
• Able to take creative feedback and implement changes efficiently
• Good organisational and time-management skills
• Comfortable working within a fast-paced agency environment
• Able to work independently as well as collaboratively
• Based in the UK
• Able to travel to Manchester twice a month

Bonus points if you notice a frame is out of sync before anyone else does.

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience working within a marketing, content or creative agency
• Experience editing content for brands on Instagram and TikTok
• Experience editing Meta advertising creatives
• Experience with healthcare, dental or professional service brands
• Experience editing patient or customer testimonials
• Experience creating documentary-style content
• Strong knowledge of After Effects
• Experience with motion graphics and animated typography
• Understanding of what makes social media content perform well
• Experience editing footage shot in Log or other flat colour profiles

Experience with AI-powered editing tools and emerging creative technology would also be beneficial. We’re always looking for ways to make the editing process faster without making the end result look like it was made by a robot during its lunch break.

What Good Looks Like

We’re not looking for someone who simply cuts clips together.

A strong editor should be able to look at raw footage and recognise the story within it.

You should understand:

• Where the hook is
• What can be removed
• What needs more breathing room
• When text will improve the video
• When music adds something
• When silence works better
• How to create emotion through an edit
• How to keep someone watching for the next five seconds

The difference between an average video and a great one is often in the small details.

We care about those details.

Salary

£25,000 – £30,000 per annum, depending on experience.

We’re open to different levels of experience within this range.

Your showreel, editing ability, creative thinking and understanding of social content will matter more to us than simply how many years you’ve been editing.

Working Style

This is ahybrid role.

The majority of your editing will be completed remotely, however the team meets approximatelytwice per month at our Manchester office.

These sessions are used for creative workshops, team meetings, campaign planning, training and reviewing content together.

You’ll also work closely with our videographers, who regularly shoot content for clients across the UK.

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