Video Editor
Automate your job search with Sonara.
Submit 10x as many applications with less effort than one manual application.1
Reclaim your time by letting our AI handle the grunt work of job searching.
We continuously scan millions of openings to find your top matches.
Overview
Job Description
May Street is a Boston-based video production company. We make films for independent schools, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and corporate clients — brand films, event and gala pieces, interview-driven storytelling, and sizzle reels. Most of our work is multicam, with real interview audio and a lot of documentary-style b-roll.
We're looking for freelance editors to bring on project by project. You'd get a shoot's worth of footage, a creative brief, and a deadline — and be trusted to build something we're proud to deliver. Assignments typically run from a single 90-second sizzle to a 5–8 minute film with multiple interview subjects.
This is not a full-time role and there's no guaranteed volume. It's a bench we're building: editors we can call when the schedule gets tight, who already know how we work.
What you'd be doing
- Assembling multicam interview footage into a clear narrative from transcripts and a brief (knowledge of Premiere multicam workflows needed)
- Cutting music-driven b-roll sequences with real sense of pace
- Basic color correction and grading, and clean audio mixing (dialogue, music beds, room tone)
- Lower thirds, titles, and simple motion graphics to brand spec
- Delivering spec-correct exports for web, social, and event playback
- Taking client notes across two to three rounds without losing the thread of the original cut
Rate: $60–$85 per hour, depending on experience and project scope
Requirements- Fluent in Adobe Premiere Pro — you know the shortcuts, you organize your bins, and someone else could open your project file and find things
- Comfortable cleaning up dialogue audio to a broadcast-ready standard
- Working knowledge of After Effects for titles and light graphics
- Experience cutting interview-based or documentary-style work; you can find the story in an hour of talking heads
- Reliable turnaround and clear communication about your capacity — we'd rather hear "I can't take this one" than get a late delivery
- Your own hardware, software licenses, and a connection that can handle large media transfers
- A reel or portfolio with at least two pieces relevant to this kind of work
Nice to have: color grading experience, familiarity with nonprofit or education clients, comfort with cloud-based client review workflows.
Automate your job search with Sonara.
Submit 10x as many applications with less effort than one manual application.
