We are looking for an experienced Senior Video Editor Team Lead to lead our video production team and deliver high-quality, engaging, and performance-driven video content across E-commerce and digital marketing channels.
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of professional video editing and post-production experience, along with proven experience leading or mentoring creative teams. This role requires strong expertise in video editing, motion graphics, product storytelling, advertising creatives, sound design, color grading, and AI-assisted video production.
You will be responsible for maintaining creative quality, improving production workflows, mentoring the video team, and collaborating with Marketing, E-commerce, Product, 2D/3D, and Creative teams to deliver scalable video content.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage the Video Editing and Post-Production team, ensuring consistent quality and timely delivery.
- Take ownership of video projects from creative brief and storyboard through editing, refinement, and final delivery.
- Create and supervise high-quality product videos, E-commerce videos, performance ads, social media content, promotional videos, feature demonstrations, and brand campaigns.
- Transform raw footage, product renders, animations, UGC, and other creative assets into compelling video stories.
- Develop strong product-focused storytelling that clearly communicates features, benefits, USPs, and customer value.
- Create multiple creative variations and formats for platforms including Amazon, Shopify, Meta, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other digital channels.
- Manage advanced post-production requirements including motion graphics, transitions, compositing, sound design, music synchronization, color correction, and color grading.
- Review team outputs and provide clear, actionable creative and technical feedback before final delivery.
- Establish video quality standards, editing guidelines, reusable templates, and efficient production workflows.
- Assign projects based on priorities, resources, timelines, and individual team capabilities.
- Collaborate with 2D Designers, 3D Artists, UI/UX Designers, Marketing, Product, and E-commerce teams to develop integrated creative content.
- Work with performance marketing teams to create and iterate video creatives based on campaign performance and A/B testing insights.
- Analyze creative performance and identify opportunities to improve hooks, pacing, messaging, product presentation, engagement, and conversion.
- Adapt master videos efficiently across different aspect ratios, languages, marketplaces, and advertising platforms.
- Explore and implement AI-assisted video workflows to accelerate ideation, editing, localization, animation, voice-over, and content variations.
- Continuously evaluate emerging video technologies, creative trends, and production techniques that can improve quality and efficiency.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in Video Editing, Post-Production, Motion Design, or related creative production roles.
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, or reviewing the work of video editors and creative professionals.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Strong understanding of editing principles, storytelling, pacing, composition, transitions, typography, sound design, and color grading.
- Experience producing videos for E-commerce, digital advertising, social media, or product-based brands.
- Strong understanding of short-form and performance-oriented video content.
- Ability to create videos optimized for different platforms, formats, resolutions, and aspect ratios.
- Experience working with product renders, 3D animations, motion graphics, and visual effects.
- Strong attention to product accuracy, brand consistency, and overall visual quality.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, feedback rounds, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong communication, leadership, creative review, and team-management skills.
AI & Emerging Technology Experience
- Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with AI-powered video generation and editing tools.
- Ability to integrate AI into video workflows for concept generation, image-to-video, text-to-video, background replacement, voice generation, lip-sync, localization, and creative variations.
- Experience with tools such as Runway, Adobe Firefly, Veo, Kling, Seedance, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, or similar AI creative platforms is an advantage.
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated content for product consistency, realism, brand accuracy, motion quality, and production readiness.
- Strong understanding of where AI can improve production efficiency and where traditional editing or manual refinement is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with international E-commerce or consumer product brands.
- Experience creating product videos for Amazon and Shopify.
- Knowledge of Blender, Cinema 4D, Unreal Engine, or other 3D tools is an advantage.
- Experience creating performance marketing creatives and structured creative A/B tests.
- Understanding of advertising metrics such as CTR, engagement rate, watch time, conversion rate, and ROAS.
- Experience managing high-volume video production workflows.
- Experience with multilingual video localization and international campaigns.
Leadership Responsibilities
As the Senior Video Editor Team Lead, you will be responsible for establishing a high-quality and efficient video production workflow across the team.
You will set priorities, distribute workloads, review creative outputs, provide technical and creative direction, mentor team members, identify skill gaps, improve production processes, and ensure videos meet both creative quality standards and business objectives.
Portfolio Requirement
Candidates should provide a strong portfolio or showreel demonstrating product videos, E-commerce content, advertising creatives, motion graphics, social media videos, and advanced editing work.
Examples demonstrating before/after editing, product storytelling, performance creatives, or team-led projects will be highly valued.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for a hands-on creative leader, not only a people manager. The ideal candidate should be capable of independently handling complex video projects while also guiding the team toward higher creative and technical standards.
The successful candidate will combine strong video editing expertise, product storytelling, leadership, E-commerce understanding, and modern AI-assisted production capabilities to create high-quality video content at scale.
Mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
Contact: +91 9952560396
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Pay: ₹50,000.00 - ₹65,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
