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Supervising Editor
| Company | Conde Nast |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $125000 – $140000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Minimum 5 years experience in combined post-production roles, ideally with past experience at a mid-to-large studio, media company, production company, or post facility
- A significant background in video editing required, experience in digital content preferred
- Extensive experience with Adobe CC applications
- In-depth knowledge of overall post-production processes, workflows, and best practices
- Experience managing a team
- Strong leader with great communication skills; interested in mentoring
- Must be proactive, well organized, and solution oriented
- Ability to manage multiple people, projects, and initiatives simultaneously; adept at prioritizing and working under tight deadlines
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of editors including senior, junior, and assistant editors working on content across a set of brands
- Work closely with senior post management to determine staffing, talent, and resource needs based on projected/upcoming programming
- Review cuts and projects regularly, providing technical and creative guidance to editors to ensure quality, efficiency, and series consistency
- Attend project-specific pre-production and post-mortem meetings with Programming and Production
- Assist senior post management, Programming, and Production Management with estimating post resources against new creative and how to creatively execute an idea in post
- Consult with the Post Production Supervisors to determine editor assignments for a particular video or series based on editors’ individual skills and strengths
- Perform individual post-mortem meetings with editors to discuss the overall project, feedback, issues, and any learnings or efficiencies that can be improved moving forward
- Work with senior management to guide editors’ professional development, provide performance feedback, resolve performance issues, mentor, and maintain positive morale amongst the team
- Approve color and sound mix before final delivery; if needed, coordinate a color/audio mixing session with the Post Production Supervisor
- Responsible for enforcing procedures and best practices that video editors are to follow
- Create and maintain series tag bibles
- Maintain logs of reviews and feedback for each individual editor from Post Production and Production
- Source and hire freelance editors as needed to accomplish increases in projected programming
- Train and onboard new editors
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in other creative production roles a plus but not required
