Associate Video Editor

Reporting to: Head of Video, US & UK
Location: New York

Role Overview
Time Out is looking for a National Video Editor to join its U.S. content team. This role is based out of our New York office. This person will work in tandem with the content team of every national property, this role will be responsible for rapidly expanding Time Out’s visual output.

The ideal candidate will love creating, commissioning and editing both short-form, daily videos that engage social media audiences and longer-form pieces that tell a deeper story.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategizing viral video content for all North American properties with key metrics in mind, assigning it and editing raw video footage supplied by all properties.

• Acting as a video managing editor for all properties (i.e. making sure all video content is being delivered on time and effectively). Taking responsibility for communicating with all with city editors to plan a consistent editorial calendar.

• Producing and editing videos across multiple platforms from short form, daily content for social media, to live broadcasts, to long-form series.

• Devise creative treatments and executions and see them through from planning to delivery.

• Measuring the performance of the videos you make as well as those supplied by editors, feeding back learnings through constant communication with all teams.

• Curating videos from multiple sources to enhance existing articles.

• Creating graphics packages and animations.

• Managing Time Out’s video presence across multiple platforms.

• Working with social media teams to deliver engaging and platform specific video content.

• Keeping on top of evolving video trends in the industry and responding appropriately (and feeding back learnings to the team).

• Maintaining Time Out’s video archive.

• Ensuring Time Out meets its copyright obligations.

Skills and Experience

• Ideally at least three years’ experience in a digital video production environment, or other relevant work experience, including in a managerial capacity.

• Proven experience shooting, editing and distributing video.

• A love of social media and experience creating video for multiple platforms.

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A good understanding of video monetization strategies.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Exceptional time and project management skills.

• Able to analyze and draw conclusions from data with tools like Omniture, Adobe Analytics, etc.

• Able to effectively manage stakeholders.

• A track record in delivering projects on time and to brief.

• Proficiency in Adobe Suite

Personal Attributes

• Strong interest in arts, culture, travel, and food and drink, with an awareness of key global events throughout the year.

• Full of innovative, cross-platform ideas.

• Thorough and analytical with exemplary attention to detail.

• Able to think laterally and visually about editorial ideas.

• Confident and ambitious with a can-do attitude.

• Happy to travel as required.

Miscellaneous

• Adhoc projects.

• Assisting in raising the profile of Time Out Limited.

• Ensure that the brand standards are met across all platforms.

• Any other reasonable requests from the Company Directors/CEO.

What we look for in a candidate

Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we live in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, you’ll want to…

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Be commercially astute

• Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced transformative company in pursuit of excellence
• Think globally
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive
• Be a team player

About Our Culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.
As our cities have reopened, we have embraced a hybrid way of working that gives us the opportunity to work remotely, as well as from the office; offering the flexibility that brings many benefits to our lives, as well as still providing a space where we can connect and collaborate as part of our Time Out community.

About Time Out Group plc

Time Out Group is a global media and hospitality business that inspires connection and joy by capturing the soul of the world’s greatest cities through its two divisions – Time Out Media and Time Out Market.

Time Out launched in London in 1968 with a magazine to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city. Today, across the Group’s digital and physical platforms, Time Out’s professional journalists curate the best things to do, see and eat in 331 cities in 59 countries.

Time Out Market is the world’s first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city’s best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. From cooking classes with top chefs to installations from local artists and live entertainment, Time Out Market captures the soul of the city.

The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in a historic market hall in Lisbon, quickly turning into the most popular destination in the city with 4.1m locals and tourists visiting in 2019. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion in North America, with Time Out Market opening in five major cities in 2019: Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago and Montreal. In 2021, Time Out Market expanded into the Middle East with Time Out Market Dubai, and more Time Out Market locations are in the pipeline including Porto, Abu Dhabi, Prague, London and more.

Time Out Group was named International Brand of the Year 2021 in the Campaign Publishing Awards – awarding bravery, editorial innovation and forward thinking. While Time Out Market won the Most Innovative Food & Beverage Concept Award at the Global RLI (Retail & Leisure International) Awards 2021.

Job Type: Full-time