Company: Swades AI — India’s First Applied AI Lab

Location: India, remote/hybrid

Type: Full-time

About the opportunitySwades AI is building a founder-led media brand around two Indian brothers building an AI business in New York City.

We are looking for a Senior YouTube Video Editor who has worked with a reliable creator, influencer, celebrity, podcast, or founder-led channel. You should understand that great editing is not simply clean cuts, captions, and motion graphics—it is the construction of attention, emotion, clarity, and story.

You will edit long-form YouTube episodes and help translate them into high-performing short-form content.

What you will own

- Edit founder stories, business videos, AI explainers, interviews, and documentary-style episodes.
- Find the strongest narrative inside unscripted founder footage.
- Build compelling openings without using misleading clickbait.
- Improve pacing, clarity, emotional progression, and audience retention.
- Identify and remove repetition, weak explanations, and unnecessary sections.
- Use B-roll, music, sound design, graphics, screenshots, and animation intentionally.
- Collaborate on titles and thumbnail concepts before the final edit.
- Create platform-native cut-downs for Shorts, Reels, and LinkedIn.
- Review retention graphs and identify editing patterns that caused viewers to continue or leave.
- Maintain organized project files, footage, versions, and feedback.
- Help establish Swades AI’s editing language and visual system.

You are likely a fit if

- You have edited for an established YouTuber, influencer, celebrity, podcast, or founder-led channel.
- Your portfolio demonstrates storytelling—not only flashy transitions.
- You understand hooks, open loops, pattern interruption, pacing, retention, and payoff.




- You can edit fluent English content and understand Indian and international cultural references.
- You have experience with founder, business, educational, documentary, or personality-led content.
- You can explain why an edit worked using both creative reasoning and performance data.
- You are comfortable receiving direct feedback and iterating quickly.
- You have strong command of Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, or an equivalent professional workflow.

What we do not want

- Generic talking-head edits filled with excessive captions and stock effects.
- Editors who optimize only for visual intensity.
- Applications containing group showreels without identifying the candidate’s contribution.
- Editors unable to explain their narrative decisions.
- Portfolios consisting exclusively of advertisements, wedding films, or cinematic montages without dialogue-driven storytelling.

How to applyPlease submit:

1. Three to five videos you personally edited.
2. Your exact contribution to each video.
3. The names of creators or channels you have worked with.
4. Any available retention, watch-time, or performance results.
5. A short explanation of the strongest opening you have edited and why it worked.
6. Your editing software, hardware setup, availability, and typical turnaround time.

Shortlisted candidates will receive the same raw footage and complete a paid editing trial. We will evaluate story judgment, hook strength, pacing, restraint, sound, visual clarity, and responsiveness to feedback. What success looks likeWithin the first 90 days, you will have:

- Established a recognizable editing style for the founders.
- Created a reliable long-form production workflow.
- Improved opening retention and average view duration across successive releases.
- Built reusable project templates without making the content feel formulaic.
- Developed a repeatable process for extracting short-form clips from every long-form production.

📌 Senior YouTube Video Editor — Founder & Business Content (India)
🏢 Swades AI
📍 India