Job Summary

Kuku TV is looking for a Mid-Senior Video Editor (2-5 years) who can turn scripts, performances, live-action footage, and AI-generated visuals into high-retention, binge-worthy micro-dramas. This role is ideal for an editor who understands that excellent short-form storytelling is not just about cutting footage-it s about hooking viewers, building emotion, escalating conflict, and ending every episode with a reason to watch the next one.

You ll work across live-action + AI-generated content in a fast-paced, high-volume episodic production environment.
Responsibilities
Storytelling Editing
- Edit live-action and AI-generated micro-dramas for mobile-first audiences.
- Create powerful opening hooks, emotional peaks, reveals, twists, payoffs, and cliffhangers.
- Shape dialogue, performances, music, SFX, voiceovers, and visuals into compelling narratives.
- Select the strongest takes to maximise emotion, conflict, suspense, and character relationships.
- Maintain strong pacing, visual rhythm, dialogue clarity, narrative progression, and audience retention.




- Apply principles of information control, escalating conflict, pattern interruption, and retention-driven editing.
Mobile-First Storytelling
- Edit specifically for vertical 9:16 formats and mobile viewing.
- Maintain strong composition, visual hierarchy, readable performances, and screen impact.
- Understand how to optimise storytelling for short attention spans and binge consumption.
AI Video VFX
- Work confidently with AI-generated characters, environments, performances, and shots.
- Identify and fix AI-video issues such as facial inconsistencies, lip-sync errors, flickering, warping, unnatural movement, frame instability, and continuity issues.
- Handle AI-assisted post-production including lip-sync correction, cleanup, upscaling, frame interpolation, shot extension, masking, tracking, compositing, and background replacement.
- Know when an AI shot can be fixed in post-production and when it needs to be

📌 AI Video Editor (Mumbai)
🏢 Kuku FM
📍 Mumbai