About Us:
Social Catfish is a rapidly growing online safety and verification company committed to creating a safer digital world. Our company thrives on integrity, relentless innovation, continuous improvement, and teamwork — we hustle hard, work smart, champion our customers, and get things done with ownership and excellence.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Part-Time Video Editors to join our team and edit our YouTube reality series focused on online scams and catfishing.
You will work with raw interviews, investigation footage, screen recordings, and other unscripted content to produce engaging, polished episodes ranging from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours, with approximately 30 minutes being the average episode length.
The adecuado candidate has strong long-form editing and storytelling skills, excellent attention to detail, and experience working with unscripted or documentary-style content.
Responsibilities:
- Edit long-form episodes from rough cut through final cut using DaVinci Resolve
- Availability to work EST hours and maintain consistent overlap with the team’s working schedule.
- Build string-outs and structured edits from unscripted footage
- Create clear, engaging stories with strong pacing and narrative flow
- Incorporate B-roll, music, sound effects, lower thirds, graphics, and other visual elements
- Prepare review cuts and apply feedback through multiple rounds until the episode is finalized
- Perform audio cleanup and basic color correction
- Blur or redact sensitive personal information, including names, email addresses, physical addresses, and faces where required
- Conduct a thorough frame-by-frame privacy and quality check before final delivery
- Edit trailers, teasers, and short promotional clips from completed episodes
- Work within the team's Dropbox and Blackmagic Cloud project structure
- Maintain organized project files,
media, and versions
- Meet scheduled episode and premiere deadlines, including short-turnaround final exports when required
- Communicate clearly and promptly regarding progress, feedback, questions, or potential blockers
- Maintain the confidentiality of all footage and information accessed during the editing process
Required Qualifications:
- Previous experience in video editing or a strong portfolio/showreel demonstrating editing skills
- Proficiency in at least one video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, or CapCut
- Strong understanding of video composition, pacing, transitions, and storytelling
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven experience editing long-form video content, preferably reality, documentary, true crime, interview-led, or investigative content
- Portfolio demonstrating 2–3 examples of long-form editing work
- Experience editing YouTube reality or documentary series
- Experience creating content designed for YouTube audience retention
- Understanding of hooks, cold opens, chapter pacing, and narrative structure
- Experience using Fairlight for audio cleanup and mixing
- Experience with color grading in DaVinci Resolve
- Motion graphics or basic animation experience
- Previous experience working with investigative, online safety, scam, or true-crime content
- Experience working remotely with distributed creative teams
How to Apply If this role sounds like the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your resume to
[email protected] and use “Part-Time Video Editor”
as the subject line.
We’re excited to connect with passionate individuals who are ready to grow with us and make an impact. Let’s build something great together.
📌 Part Time Video Editor (México)
🏢 Socialcatfish.Com
📍 México