Short-Form Video Editor — Edit, Thumbnail & Post Dog Content (Ongoing Weekly)

I run Fetch Mafia — high-octane fetch content, dog training, and dog life. Real sessions, real dog, nothing staged: sprints, mid-air catches, recalls, and the occasional spectacular miss. I shoot the footage. I need one person to do everything after that. We post to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels. WHAT YOU'LL DO Each week I send raw session footage. You send back posted content. EDIT — Cut the footage into 5 vertical shorts (1080x1920). Most sessions have one great moment buried in twenty minutes of setup, and finding it is the core skill. Hook in the first second, slow-mo timed to the catch, fast cuts, burned-in captions, clean lav audio, basic color correction, music that fits without burying the voice. THUMBNAILS — Custom thumbnail per YouTube Short, cover frame per Reel. Consistent style so the channel reads as one thing. WRITE — Title, description, caption, and hashtags per platform. Not the same text pasted three times; the platforms don't read the same. POST — Publish on the agreed schedule. Access via YouTube Studio permissions and Meta Business Suite. I will not share account passwords. REPORT — Five bullets once a month: what performed, what didn't, what you'd try next. WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR Vertical short-form portfolio with fast-moving subjects: sports, animals, action, kids. Wedding and corporate reels won't tell me what I need to know. You can actually write. Most applicants for this role treat captions as an afterthought. I'd rather have solid editing plus good copy than beautiful editing plus "Check out this cute doggo." Pacing instincts over After Effects skills. Comfortable with phone footage (4K60, sometimes 1080/120fps for slow-mo). Reliable. Hitting a fixed delivery day matters more to me than brilliance that arrives whenever. NICE TO HAVE You've worked with dogs and can tell when one is having a great time versus over it. Experience growing an account from a small base rather than maintaining a large one. A current read on what's working in the pet corner of short-form. NOTE ON SCOPE I'm launching a second brand later this year — vlog-style content about building a business. If this goes well, that work is yours first. Not part of this contract, but worth knowing if you're looking for something that grows. HOW THIS WORKS AND WHAT IT PAYS I'm being upfront about money so nobody wastes time. TRIAL: $100 for 3 shorts, one week. I'm running this with 2-3 people on the same footage so I can compare actual work instead of guessing from profiles. You'll know you're being compared. If that's not for you, no hard feelings. ONGOING: $150 per weekly batch of 5 shorts — edited, thumbnailed, captioned, and posted to all three platforms. One milestone per week on the same contract. Indefinite if it's working. The trial pays more per short than the ongoing rate does. That's intentional — the trial is small, it's competitive, and you're learning my style on my clock. I'd rather tell you that now than surprise you in week two. If you're good and reliable, I raise the rate. I'd rather pay more to keep someone than restart this process. MUSIC: TikTok and Instagram native audio, YouTube's free Audio Library, or natural audio from the lav mic. No third-party or unlicensed music, no exceptions. Don't burn music into the TikTok and Reels cuts — deliver those clean so the sound gets added natively at post time. TIMELINE: Weekly batch on a fixed day we agree on at the start. Consistency matters more to me than which day it is. One round of notes per batch. I'll provide reference videos and example captions in the brand's voice to match. TO APPLY Answer the screening questions. Applications that skip question 2 won't be read.