Lead Editor and Motion Designer, The Hustle YouTube Channel

POS-11966

Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 5 pm ET Tues, Feb 17th.

Overview
The Hustle is hiring a full-time Lead Editor & Motion Designer to define and scale the visual language of our YouTube-first editorial videos (long-form and Shorts). You’ll own edits end-to-end, elevate and maintain our graphics and motion system, and turn scripts into high-retention, visually coherent stories that make complex business and tech topics easy to follow and fun to watch.

Responsibilities

Deliver post-production for long and short-form stories:

• Edit YouTube-first, long-form videos from audio string-out to final cut on deadline, along with Shorts (both repurposed and original).
• Design and animate clear data visualizations, diagrams, and explainer sequences for business and tech topics.
• Build mixed-media comps that serve editorial beats and keep viewers engaged.
• Handle color, audio cleanup, music selection, and basic mix.
• Collaborate with writers/hosts and stakeholders; give and receive concise, actionable feedback.

Be a visual leader:

• Provide edit-focused notes on pacing, clarity, music, motion and visual alignment.
• Lead recurring edit reviews, mentorship, and post‑mortems that turn visual performance data and team feedback into evolving best practices for the channel.
• Guide our team of editors and animators with specific, actionable feedback to continually improve creative output, workflows, and post‑production processes.
• Do visual script passes: match words to visuals, flag gaps, and suggest structural or pacing fixes to improve retention.
• Support visual planning calls, turning creative direction and performance insights into motion/graphics plans.
• Lead recurring visual strategy meetings that analyze recent videos and translate performance insights into clear, actionable improvements for editors and animators.
• Assist in managing external post‑production contractors, ensuring their work aligns with our visual style guide, deadlines, and performance goals.

Optimize visual packaging across the channel:

• Maintain and elevate the channel graphics package (lower thirds, transitions, charts, maps, iconography) for a consistent and distinct visual style.
• Manage templates, assets, and project files for speed and repeatability; document and uphold our visual style guide and post-production best practices.
• Iterate on formats and visuals based on audience feedback and performance metrics (e.g., retention, click-through, AVD).

What You Bring

• 5+ years of editorial or documentary-style editing with motion design for digital video and a portfolio of YouTube-optimized work (8+ minute videos).
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Strong editorial instincts: story structure, pacing, clarity, and accuracy, with an eye toward YouTube audience behavior and retention.
• Expertise in color grading, audio cleanup, and export/deliverables for YouTube.
• Experience building and maintaining consistent design systems and iterating on them based on feedback and performance data.
• Familiarity with modern creative pipelines, project workflows, and video archiving and data management best practices.

We Are Looking for People Who

• Effectively multitask and methodically assess and resolve technical and creative issues in a timely, scalable manner.
• Enhance live-action videos with intricate and engaging animations and identify when animated pieces can drive the narrative.
• Follow and elevate brand guidelines with a keen eye for detail and consistency.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across writers, hosts, creatives, and brand teams.
• Incorporate feedback well and provide clear, edit-focused notes to others.
• Work effectively within a team structure while also being able to operate independently with minimal supervision.
• Are highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-directed, building systems that help the whole team move faster.

Nice to Have

• Experience developing or refreshing a channel-level graphics package.
• Data visualization experience for business/tech stories.
• Familiarity with Frame.io, Descript, Riverside, YouTube Studio, and Google Drive.
• Efficient stock/archival sourcing within brand and legal guidelines.

About The Hustle

The Hustle is business news for people who hate typically boring business news, delivering fun, overlooked stories in a sharp, punchy package. We offer levity and novelty in stark contrast to the corporate, self-serious tone of the average business media outlet.

The Hustle is a business editorial brand with ~1.5M subscribers across The Hustle Daily newsletter, The Hustle Daily Show podcast, and The Hustle YouTube channel. We produce original long- and short-form video stories, offering offbeat and informative takes on headlines, trends, and oddities in business and tech.

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