HAMLIN Studios
Senior Video Editor
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WE’RE HIRING: SENIOR YOUTUBE EDITOR
HAMLIN is looking for a Senior YouTube Editor to join our growing production team in London. HAMLIN is a London production studio building shows, not content. We create and produce podcasts, YouTube series, commercial films, and original entertainment formats from development through to delivery. We’re deliberately building a small, specialist team capable of producing work at an extremely high level and this role will become a major part of our YouTube division as it grows.
- Salary: £40,000–£45,000 annual
- Position: Full-time
- Location: Hybrid / London
We’re an independent production studio creating award-winning podcasts, premium YouTube series, branded films, and original formats for some of the UK’s leading talent, founders, and brands. And YouTube is becoming a major part of where we’re going next. We’re looking for an editor who genuinely understands YouTube. Not just someone who can make something look polished.
Someone who understands storytelling, retention, pacing, and why people keep watching.
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You’ll take ownership of the post-production of HAMLIN’s growing slate of premium YouTube shows.
- Think:
- Founder-led YouTube series
- Documentary-style interviews
- Vlogs and behind-the-scenes films
- Talent-led entertainment formats and original shows
You’ll work closely with me and producers in the in-house team to take footage from shoot through to finished film, helping us develop repeatable editing styles and formats across each channel.
You need to be brilliant at:
- Long-form YouTube editing
- Story and narrative structure
- Creating strong openings and hooks
- Retention-focused pacing
- Music and sound design
- Motion graphics and animated text
- B-roll and visual storytelling
- Building personality into an edit
- Finding moments that make people want to keep watching
- Taking creative direction while bringing your own ideas
You should understand the difference between editing a nice video and editing a great YouTube video. We want someone who watches YouTube, studies YouTube, and understands what is working on the platform now. We’re looking for someone ambitious who wants to become a key part of what we’re building.
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You Should Be:
- London-based or UK-based
- Highly organized
- Fast without sacrificing quality
- Obsessive about detail
- Comfortable managing multiple projects
- Collaborative and good with feedback
- Calm under deadlines
- Excited by entertainment, creators, founders, and brands
- Interested in helping shape formats, not simply receiving an edit brief
- Experience with Premiere Pro and After Effects is ideal
- Experience editing established YouTube channels, documentary content, entertainment, or premium branded content is a major plus!!
This is a full-time freelance/contract position, working closely with our team in London with a mixture of studio and remote working.
- Salary: £38,000–£45,000 annual retainer, depending on experience.
If this sounds like you, send over your CV, showreel/portfolio, and 2–3 examples of YouTube videos you’ve personally edited. For clients, not just for fun. And tell us which YouTube channels you think are producing the best content in the world right now and why.
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