Video Editor, Sr.

About The Company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service dedicated to serving all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Operating across four continents, Zipline completes a delivery every 30 seconds and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

Our clientele includes some of the world’s largest healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants, and global businesses. They rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide rapid delivery from point A to point B. Our drone technology represents only 15% of our comprehensive system that enables seamless, reliable, global operations.

Zipline’s system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With over 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, we are redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food worldwide. We operate at a global scale and seek practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building impactful systems and scaling the future of logistics, embracing first principles thinking, adversity, and record-breaking achievements.

About The Role

Zipline’s communications team is responsible for shaping and sharing the company’s story and impact. We develop and implement strategies to educate target audiences, raise awareness, increase acceptance and enthusiasm for our system, and cultivate ambassadors. We are passionate storytellers who simplify complex topics.

As Zipline expands its U.S. operations delivering food, medicine, retail items, and more directly to homes, we are seeking a Senior Video Editor. This role involves transforming footage, interviews, sound, graphics, product imagery, and other materials into clear, engaging stories. You will edit social and brand videos, product launches, technical explainers, customer stories, interviews, events, recruiting content, and internal communications.

You will work closely with a Video Producer, Cinematographer, and Motion Designer, as well as teams across Communications, Brand, Social, Marketing, engineering, and operations. This hands-on post-production role focuses on story construction, pacing, dialogue, music, sound, color grading, versioning, quality control, and organized delivery.

Qualifications

• 7\+ years of professional video editing and post-production experience in an in-house creative team, agency, studio, production company, or media organization.
• A strong reel and portfolio demonstrating editorial judgment, pacing, emotional range, and multi-format work with clearly identified roles.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro or another professional nonlinear editing system.
• Strong working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Audition, or comparable audio tools and post-production workflows from ingest through delivery.
• Experience editing interviews, documentary or observational footage, product stories, technical explainers, social content, and brand communications.
• Strong instincts for story structure, performance, pacing, music, sound, visual rhythm, and audience engagement.
• Professional experience with dialogue editing, sound design, music editing, audio cleanup, balancing, color correction, conforming, captions, and finishing.
• Working knowledge of motion graphics and visual effects pipelines sufficient to brief, turn over, integrate, version, and quality-check work from Motion Designers or external partners.
• Strong technical knowledge of codecs, containers, frame rates, resolutions, aspect ratios, color spaces, audio specifications, captions, and platform delivery requirements.
• Excellent organizational skills for media ingest, proxies, transcripts, project files, feedback, versions, masters, and archives.
• Ability to manage multiple edits and review cycles while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to explain editorial choices, incorporate feedback, and work effectively with creative and technical partners.
• Ability to learn complex subject matter and maintain technical accuracy while making information accessible to a broad audience.
• Experience editing content related to robotics, autonomy, aviation, logistics, hardware, infrastructure, healthcare, or other technically complex fields is a plus.
• Experience with multicamera editing, remote or field editing, localization, archival workflows, or external finishing vendors is a plus.
• Familiarity with transcription, cleanup, search, versioning, and AI-assisted post-production tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Edit short- and medium-form videos for social media, web, events, presentations, internal channels, and other communication needs.
• Review briefs, scripts, transcripts, footage, product assets, screen recordings, archival material, and other sources to build clear editorial structures.
• Create selects, string-outs, assemblies, rough cuts, fine cuts, and final masters with close attention to story, pacing, performance, tone, continuity, and visual rhythm.
• Identify concise and emotionally credible stories from interviews, observational footage, product demonstrations, customer experiences, events, and operational captures.
• Partner with the Video Producer to confirm audience, deliverables, schedules, review rounds, feedback routing, and delivery requirements.
• Collaborate with the Cinematographer on footage assessment, coverage, continuity, exposure

Benefits

• Competitive hourly pay range of $22\.00 to $24\.00 based on skills and experience
• Flexible part-time schedule with a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week
• Remote work opportunity allowing for work-life balance
• Dedicated Relationship Specialist support for ongoing professional development
• Collaborative team environment that values individuality and encourages personality in the workplace
• Access to continuous learning and growth opportunities

Equal Opportunity

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.