Position: Video Editor Social Media & Content

Department: Marketing & Creative

Industry: Hospitality / Restaurants

Experience: 25 years

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: [Insert Location]

Reporting To: Marketing Head / Creative Director

About Chandi Hospitality Group

Chandi Hospitality Group is a growing hospitality company with restaurant and food-service brands across the USA and India. Our portfolio includes established franchise restaurant chains in the US along with our own Indian concepts, Curry & Hops and Curry Lane.

We are looking for a creative, trend-aware and technically strong Video Editor who can transform food, restaurant experiences, products and brand stories into high-impact visual content designed for social media and digital platforms.

This is not a role limited to basic video editing. We are looking for someone who understands visual storytelling, food cinematography, motion, animation, trends and AI-powered content creation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Social Media Video Content

- Create highly engaging Reels, Shorts and social-first videos for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms.
- Develop content around food, beverages, restaurants, offers, events, customer experiences and brand stories.
- Create hook-driven videos designed to capture attention within the first few seconds.
- Adapt videos into multiple formats, including 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9.
- Keep up with social media trends, editing styles, transitions, music, memes and emerging content formats.

2. Food & Product Videos

- Edit visually compelling food and beverage videos that make products look appetizing, premium and desirable.
- Work with the marketing and restaurant teams to conceptualize product-focused content.
- Create content around new menu launches, promotions, limited-time offers and restaurant experiences.
- Understand pacing, sound design, transitions and visual techniques that enhance food appeal.

3. Motion Graphics & Animation

- Create motion graphics, kinetic typography, animated promotional content and product animations.
- Develop animated social media posts and campaign assets.
- Add titles, captions, graphics, transitions, effects and visual elements to videos.
- Create engaging stop-motion and frame-by-frame content where appropriate.

4. CGI & AI-Powered Content

- Use AI video and image generation tools to create innovative and visually striking content.

- Experiment with AI for





- Video generation
- Image-to-video

- Product visualization

- Background creation/replacement

- Animation

- Visual effects

- Concept development

- Creative storytelling
- Stay updated with emerging AI tools and identify new ways to improve the speed and quality of content production.

5. Creative Collaboration

- Work closely with the Marketing, Social Media and Design teams to translate campaign briefs into strong visual concepts.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute creative ideas.
- Suggest new content formats, trends and visual treatments.
- Collaborate with photographers, designers, social media managers and marketing teams during shoots and campaigns.

6. Brand Consistency

- Ensure every video follows the respective brand identity, tone, visual language and guidelines.
- Maintain consistency across multiple restaurant brands and markets.
- Understand how content should differ between US and Indian audiences.

Required Skills:

Must Have

- 2–5 years of professional experience in video editing/content creation.
- Strong knowledge of qualified editing software such as:

- Adobe Premiere Pro

- After Effects

- DaVinci Resolve
- Final Cut Pro or equivalent
- Strong understanding of Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and social media content.

- Excellent understanding of

- Video pacing

- Storytelling

- Transitions

- Sound design

- Music synchronization

- Typography

- Color grading

- Visual effects
- Strong understanding of short-form content trends.
- Ability to create content that is attention-grabbing, entertaining and conversion-focused.
- Experience creating motion graphics and animations.
- Strong understanding of different video formats and aspect ratios.

Good to Have:

- Knowledge of graphic design and tools such as Photoshop/Illustrator.
- Experience with food photography/videography.
- Knowledge of stop-motion animation.
- Experience creating CGI/3D content.
- Basic knowledge of 3D software such as Blender/Cinema 4D is a plus.




- Experience with sound design and audio mixing.
- Experience working with restaurant, food, lifestyle, FMCG or hospitality brands.

AI Skills — Important The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with AI-powered creative tools and have a genuine interest in experimenting with emerging technologies. Experience with tools such as Runway, Kling, Veo, Sora, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, CapCut AI, ChatGPT or similar platforms will be an advantage.

We are particularly interested in someone who can take a straightforward creative brief such as:

"Make this burger look like it is flying through a city before landing on the table."

and turn it into a visually compelling piece of social content using a combination of editing, animation, VFX and AI.

What We're Looking For

We want someone who is:

- Creative: You don't just edit footage—you think about the idea behind it.
- Trend-aware: You know what's working on Reels and Shorts.
- Food-obsessed: You understand how to make food look irresistible on screen.
- Experimentative: You're constantly trying new editing styles, AI tools and visual techniques.
- Fast: Social content often needs quick turnaround.
- Detail-oriented: Small things like timing, typography, sound and transitions matter.
- Story-driven: You understand that even a 10-second Reel needs a beginning, middle and payoff.
- Commercially aware: You understand that content should ultimately help build brands, engagement, footfall and sales.

Key Performance Indicators: Success in this role will be measured through:

- Quality and consistency of video output
- Social media engagement and watch time
- Reel/Shorts retention
- Creative performance
- Turnaround time
- Number of innovative content formats developed
- Ability to create content across multiple brands
- Effective use of AI and emerging creative technologies
- Contribution to campaigns and product launches

Portfolio Requirement A strong portfolio is mandatory. Candidates should share examples of:

- Social media Reels
- Food/product videos
- Motion graphics
- Animation
- Stop-motion
- CGI/VFX work
- AI-generated video/content, if available
- Before/after editing examples, if applicable

We care more about the quality of your work and creative thinking than the number of years on your CV. If you can turn food into content people can't stop watching, we want to meet you.

📌 Video Editor (Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar)
🏢 Chandi Hospitality Group
📍 Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar