Job role: Senior video editor & creator
Department: Brand & growth
Job Experience: Minimum 7 years
Location: Mumbai HQ

About The Hosteller

The Hosteller started in 2015, when backpacker hostels weren't a category in India yet. Seventy-plus properties later, we're the country's largest self-operated hostel chain — and we've never really sold beds. We sell the common room at 11pm, the trek someone talks you into, the table that had four people and now has seven. Belonging is the product. The whole brand runs on one line: go meet your people.

Role overview

Set the edit quality and the format language for a daily short-form engine running across 75 hostels and use AI video tools to produce what a shoot alone can't.

Content is The Hosteller's primary acquisition channel, not a support function. Capture is distributed across the network, creators travelling on barter, paid influencers, guests filming anyway and it arrives raw, uneven and constant. Production stays central. This seat is where that raw feed becomes work that looks like one brand, every day,



without the volume flattening the craft.

It is a senior IC seat with a bar-setting mandate: the house style is defined here, the hardest cuts are done here, and the video editor is mentored here.

Responsibilities

Edit quality and format

Own the edit bar for all short-form output: reels, property films, campaign cutdowns, launch assets
Define the house style — pacing, sound design, cut language — so 75 locations read as one brand rather than 75 feeds
Develop formats and hooks built around what is working on-platform now, not what worked last year, and document them as repeatable templates the team can run
Take the hardest and highest-stakes cuts personally: hero films, launches, brand-defining pieces

AI-assisted video

Use current AI video tools (Runway, Kling, Veo-class) to generate clips, B-roll and transitions when a shoot isn't rapid enough or isn't possible
Build AI into the daily workflow as a throughput an

📌 Senior Video Editor (India)
🏢 The Hosteller
📍 India