Korean / English bilingual Video Editor Lead - Korea

Jellysmack is the global creator company that detects and develops the world's most talented video creators and creators with the most growth potential on online video platforms and social media. We're an optimistic crew that always strives to go extra miles to overachieve the targets, has a positive glass-half-full mindset, and sees challenges as opportunities. We are looking for passionate talents who can contribute to our rapid and sustainable growth, those who are not only diligent and have a strong sense of responsibility, but also those who have a positive attitude, love challenges, think outside the box, are inventive, bold, adapt well to dynamic business and working environments and believe that teamwork really matters and cares about his/her teammates to join our journey. Founded in 2016, Jellysmack has over 1,000 employees globally currently, and with global presence in the United States, Europe and Asia. And, with a recent Series C funding from Softbank in May 2021, it has further propelled Jellysmack’s international expansion, including Korea.

The Role

Jellysmack is hiring a Video Editor Lead, a.k.a Editing Supervisor (ES), to join our rapidly expanding team in Seoul, Korea. ES, working under the Korea Operations Team, a.k.a. Korea Creative Operations Team, will work closely with operations team members such as Video Editors, Content Strategist, Copy Checker, Brand Safety Specialist and Community Manager as well as Partner Success Manager to ensure our partner creators’ videos are produced in timely fashion in accordance with the creators requirements, thereby contributing to accelerated growth of our partner creators’ content across various social media and online video platforms.

Your responsibility is to personally edit videos produced by our partner creators, who are Korea’s most influential creators and creators with the highest growth potential across diverse content categories, as well as supervise video edit work by a couple of video editors working under you. You will be collaborating closely with Content Strategist and Partner Success Manager, leading and manage a small unit of team called cell by coordinating multi-functional role players such as Content Strategist, Community Manager, Brand Safety Specialist, Copy Checker and Video Editors as well as work closely with Testing Video Editors and User Acquisition Manager (UAM). You will be required to manage a number of creators’ accounts simultaneously both in Korean and English.

The ES will report to the Head of Korea Creative Operations Team, who will manage entire creative operations in Korea handling multiple number of cells, as well as VP of Editing Operations, the functional head, based in France and at times to the Korea Country Manager.

Responsibilities

• The primary responsibility is to personally edit videos produced by our partner creators, who are Korea’s most influential creators and creators with the highest growth potential across diverse content categories, as well as supervise video edit work by a couple of video editors working under you to ensure timely editing and production of partner creators’ videos.
• As the lead, you own the responsibility of ensuring that things run smoothly among all the cell members and streamlining the post-production editing process to improve productivity across the entire process, from editing original full-length videos to composing descriptions and publishing videos on social media and online video platforms.
• Working in close collaboration with our Content Strategists, make sure we produce our partner creators’ videos in a timely fashion and strategically publish our partners’ content to maximize the content performance.
• You collaborate closely with the Partner Success Manager to learn about the tone and manner of videos produced by our partner creators and provide junior video editors with sufficient context and background information about new creators to ensure that creators are content with our edit styles. Ensure both you and your video editors adapt to the editing style and narrative of each Creator.
• Mentor and provide guidelines to video editors to improve their video editing quality and productivity. We always pursue the best quality video edits to satisfy our creator partners.
• Write and report editing briefs to help video editors improve their productivity and performance and consistently communicate with ESs in other countries and regions to improve the productivity of individual video editors.
• Supervising and following up with central teams to resolve operational and technical issues in collaboration with the Head of Korea Creative Operations Team,
• Analyze the performance of our videos with our internal tools and dashboards and suggest areas of improvement to our Tech and Data teams.
• Keep your communication channels open, and actively develop a sense of camaraderie and team spirit for your cell.
• Build a close relationship with cross-functional teams across countries and regions.

Requirements

• Between 1-3 years of proven track record of experiences working as a managerial role supervising a small team of video editors and motion and graphics creative personnel in film, advertising or online video production studios, media entertainment companies and multi-channel networks (MCNs).
• Professional level of editing skills in major editing software such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, etc.
• Minimum one year of hands-on video editing experience. Those who majored in Filmmaking or Film Producing, TV production, Youtube and Social Media Video Production and Video Editing are preferred but not mandatory if you have video editing work experiences.
• Those with career experience in managing multiple video editors and multi-functional team members are preferred. The person should be well-versed in the different phases of editing, post-production.
• Native or business-level fluent Korean language and fluent business-level or at least conversational verbal and written English communication skills required. Those who have difficulty communicating in English, both written and spoken English, should not apply.
• Those who have a good understanding of social media and online video platforms and how videos should be edited for each and every platform (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube) are preferred, but not mandatory.
• Genuine interest in and/or curiosity about different IT tools and analytics tools.
• Highly organized with a strong work ethic, strong sense of responsibilities, good interpersonal and communication skills. A great team player.
• Those who are capable of working independently with minimal supervision.
• Those who are detail oriented and who love precision.
• Those who are passionate about online video content, social media videos and the creator economy.
• Those who like to work in a fast-paced dynamic and agile working environment.
• Those who are fun and creative.

Benefits

Our "Work from Anywhere" philosophy:

Jellysmack believes in a flexible work environment in which anyone can work from anywhere. This is why we've implemented our flexible location philosophy, meaning you get the best of both worlds: you can choose to work from home, from our offices in New York, Los Angeles, Paris or Corti or any of the WeWork offices globally.

Perks at Jellysmack:

• One-time off ‘Work from Anywhere’ new joiner starter kit allowance, with monthly remote allowance provided.
• Flexible annual leave arrangement, to take your vacation days whenever you feel you need, with the discretion of your supervisor.
• Flexible core working hours provided as we understand that people are productive at different hours of the day and week, with ownerships to manage your team meetings.
• Comprehensive medical healthcare coverage for employees and direct dependents, which include the four major insurances required by the Korean government (National Pension, Health, Employment and Industrial Accident Compensation insurances); Provision of indemnity medical insurance for employees (indemnity medical insurance will cover dependents who are living in the same residence) .
• Special bonus and retirement payment/pension plan in accordance with the local labor law in Korea, applicable for permanent employees
• Support for professional career development through work related training, attending sponsored conferences and personal development program, mentor-mentee buddy program whenever necessary.
• Virtual wellness activities (e.g. fitness, yoga, meditation).
• Engaging virtual off-site team building/bonding activities and events.

The Jellysmack Difference

Jellysmack’s story started in 2016, and since then, our unrivaled platform and services optimizes and distributes our owned and operated (O&O) and our partner creators’ video content across diverse social media platforms on top of Youtube, letting Jellysmack creators reach genuine new fans (subscribers or followers) and additional revenue with zero additional effort from our creator partners. We are the only company building a hyper-engaged community among global creators that every creator dreams of because, first and foremost, we are also a creator that successfully launched and operated a half a dozen video channels including Beauty Studio, Oh My Goal, House of Bounce, Gamology and Binge Society. Our channels are performing superbly across YouTube, Facebook and many other social media platforms.

As of now, Jellysmack is home to over 500 influential creators worldwide, including Mr. Beast, PewDiePie, Brad Mondo, Bailey Sarian, and Emmymade. Jellysmack optimizes, operates, and distributes creator-made video content to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. The company’s creator support strategy builds upon its success in scaling its own original content channels in beauty (“Beauty Studio”), soccer (“Oh My Goal”), gaming (“Gamology”), and more.

Through the power of our accumulated data, and our video related deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, we maximize the reach and revenue of our partner creators to help our creators stay focused on their top priority, creating the best quality content and entertaining fans around the world. We turn that passion into a brand and that brand into an empire. Looking at our technical prowess and our growth potential Softbank Vision Fund II invested in us back in May 2021, becoming a new Unicorn headquartered in the U.S.

Jellysmack has its presences and offices globally, located in the U.S. (New York and Los Angeles), France (Paris and Corti), with recent establishment of presence across 11 new countries in 2021 across APAC (India, Korea and Australia covering both Australia and New Zealand), EMEA (UK, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Italy) and LATAM (Brazil and Mexico). With a strong strategic business plan and growth set in 2022, Jellysmack is furthering its presence in Japan, Taiwan and South East Asia as well.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

At Jellysmack, we believe that the best ideas come from the diverse cultures of our team members. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us forward every day. Creating a work culture that is safe and comfortable for our people to flourish is our main focus.

Ready to be part of Jellysmack’s exciting adventure and accelerated growth in 2022?

We're dedicated to making the best working environment possible for our people. All you have to do is apply. We look forward to you contributing your talents to Jellysmack’s growth !

*Note: We will only accept and review resumes or CVs written in English. Kindly do not submit resumes in Korean language only as the resumes will be reviewed by the international recruiting team. As part of the hiring process, reference check would be potentially required at the final interview or offer stage.