The Role:
Shikho is hiring a Timeline Editor (Sr. Executive) to take ownership of post-production editing across our educational video content. This role is ideal for someone with a creative eye for storytelling, excellent technical editing skills, and a strong understanding of narrative pacing and visual rhythm. The ideal candidate will be hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced content production environment.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Splice raw film footage together from various sources and shoots and combine it with other scenes to create a cohesive story.
• Evaluate edited footage to make sure it matches the story from the script and meets the narrative agenda of the knowledge team.
• Edit footage into timelines and cut time out of certain shots to create a more impactful story for the audience.
• Combine visual footage with audio sound effects, dialogue, voice editing, ambient sound, and a musical soundtrack to create more drama in the story.
• Use computer editing software programs, video switching devices, digital video effects programs, and other tools to piece together film components.
• Ensure all editing cuts, splices, changes, and additions appear seamless and natural and help the story flow more effectively in the finished product.
• Manage video files and label them accordingly.
• Discuss project timeline, narrative structure, story goals, and more with the director and the knowledge team.
Qualifications and Skills:
• Minimum 3 years of professional video editing experience.
• Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro – Must have.
• Strong color grading skills.
• Experience with Adobe After Effects – a big plus.
• Previous experience in editing podcasts – a big plus.
• Strong sense of storytelling through visuals and pacing.
• Ability to bring creative ideas to the table and collaborate with the creative and knowledge teams.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and capable of managing multiple projects and file structures.
The Important Bits:
Job type: Full Time
Department: Production
Location: Gulshan
Salary: Competitive and Negotiable Based on Experience
Working Days: 5 days a week, from Sunday to Thursday
Other Benefits: Festival Bonus, Group Life & Medical Insurance, Annual Leave, Leave Encashment, Annual Performance Review, etc.
About Shikho:
Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology start-up with a mission to democratise access to high-quality education. It has so far raised $8 million USD of international funding from global venture capitalists in Singapore and America, the highest for a Bangladeshi seed-stage startup and the highest in education technology for the country. Investors include education technology investment specialists Learn Capital from Silicon Valley, regional experts Wavemaker Partners from Singapore along with the Family Office of Singtel Chairman and local partner SAJIDA Foundation. Shikho aims to build a holistic learning ecosystem for a digitally enabled Bangladeshi student population, across primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
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