Shortform Video Editing Contractor
80,000 Hours
📍 Remote (Global) 🔄 Rolling Applications
💼 Contractor 🕔 Part Time
Help make spectacular videos that reach a huge audience. We’re looking for someone to contract as a video editor, who can quickly learn our style and make our videos successful on shortform video platforms. We want these videos to start changing and informing the conversation about transformative AI and AGI.
Why this role?
In 2025, 80,000 Hours is planning to focus especially on helping explain why and how our audience can help society safely navigate a transition to a world with transformative AI. Right now not nearly enough people are talking about these ideas and their implications.
A great video program could change this. Time spent on the internet is increasingly spent watching video, and for many people in our target audience, video is the main way that they both find entertainment and learn about topics that matter to them.
To get our video program off the ground, we need great editors who understand our style and vision and can work quickly and to a high standard.
Responsibilities
Be able to work at least 10 hours a week
Be able to turn around drafts of edited shortform videos in 24-48 hours
Take feedback well
Learn our style and adapt to it quickly
About You
We’re looking for someone who ideally has:
Experience making shortform videos
Experience with Capcut, Descript or similar
Good taste in shortform video
Knowledge of the current trends and what succeeds in shortform video
The ability to work quickly and take feedback well
Familiarity with AI Safety
If you don’t have experience here but think you’d be a great fit, feel free to apply anyway; try out editing some footage you take of yourself to see how the work suits you.
