Video Editor

The Role:

We are looking for a Video Editor to join our growing Content team based in Shanghai. This person will be responsible for producing, editing, optimizing, publishing and maintaining Tesla’s Video Content.

The Video Content team works closely together to produce videos across our social, web, event and global channels. Each member is passionately driven and has the necessary attitude to work as a team and independently. The ideal candidate is highly creative, technically strong and has the ability to turn challenges into opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare, assist and complete edits for daily projects.
• Adhering to the Senior Editor’s project management workflow and folder structure, also including label and organization.
• Working with a wide range of digital camera formats and their respective file-based workflows, such as Sony, RED, Alexa, GoPro and iPhone.
• Exporting media to various review and distribution needs.
• Ingest media from a variety of formats, transcoding when necessary.
• Participate in on site productions for DIT/Data Support, review meetings and creative sessions.
• Source music for edits from our music library or 3rd party music vendors. Specifically, how to select music to fit the tone/pace of the attached video and the Tesla brand direction.
• A quick understanding of our media content library and how to navigate through raw footage, completed projects and any other media to fulfill requests.

Qualifications:

• Experience editing social media content and long form content.
• Minimum 4 years experience non-linear editing, preferably Adobe Premiere.
• Proficiency in music editing and audio cleanup
• Experience working with branded and product content.
• Editing with Premiere Pro CC is mandatory. Final Cut X or Avid is a bonus.
• An understanding of offline and online workflows for post-production.
• Experience in After Effects, specifically text animation, object removal/cleanup and camera stabilization.
• The ability to work at speed in a fast turnaround environment, without sacrificing quality of content.
• Appreciation of global audience and subtlety of cultural differences across the world.
• Be comfortable juggling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Fluent in both Mandarin and English