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About the Role

DMG New Media is seeking a Mid-weight Social Video Editor to transform studio-based and presenter-led content into polished, platform-ready videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. You will edit a high volume of short-form content at pace, often within the same day, and collaborate with creators, producers, and videographers to shape compelling social-first content. Your work will also include editing commercial and editorial content across the Daily Mail portfolio.

Responsibilities

Edit presenter-led, explainer, and other short-form social videos from studio rushes through to final delivery.
Work with creators, producers, and videographers to create compelling social-first and presenter-led content across various formats.
Follow established templates and brand guidelines while maintaining a strong sense of pace, creative flare, structure, and visual storytelling.
Edit commercial and editorial content across the Daily Mail portfolio of pages.
Add graphics, captions, subtitles, and branding to elevate storytelling.
Help shape post-production workflows and editing practices from ingest to delivery, ensuring a consistent and efficient editing process.
Prepare templates and guides, and help allocate tasks to editors.
Respond clearly and efficiently to feedback, often working to tight or same-day deadlines.

Requirements

Experience creating short-form video for social media, with a good understanding of what works across TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
Proven ability to manage your own edits independently and maintain high standards under pressure.
Experience editing in a newsroom, digital publisher, or similarly fast-paced environment.
Strong Premiere Pro skills.
Confident working with subtitles, music, sound mixing, graphics, and basic visual effects.
A strong eye for pacing, selecting engaging opening moments, and keeping viewers’ attention.
Strong communication skills, meticulous attention to detail, and confidence working collaboratively with feedback.

Skills

Premiere Pro
Motion design
After Effects
Graphics
Subtitles
Music
Sound mixing
Visual effects

Location

London, W8 5HY

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid
4 days in the office/week

Experience Level

Mid-weight

About the Company

DMG New Media is the Daily Mail’s social publisher, bringing the future of news and entertainment to Gen Z and young millennials.
Our mission is simple: To inform, entertain and inspire the next generation through brilliant social storytelling.
Our creatives and talent are deeply rooted in the communities we reach.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.