Short-Form Video Editor for Artist Commons

Artist Commons is looking for a thoughtful, detail-oriented short-form video editor to help transform long-form educational recordings about contemporary art into compelling vertical video clips for social media.

Artist Commons is a year-long development program for early- and mid-career visual artists. Our lectures, interviews, and panels bring artists into conversation with curators, scholars, cultural writers, and museum and gallery professionals. We are looking for someone who can help us share the strongest moments from those conversations in a way that feels intelligent, accessible, and visually compelling.

This is a remote contract position at $20/hour. New York-based candidates are preferred, especially recent graduates with a degree in media or filmmaking. Opus Clip or CapCut experience is helpful but not required. Experience with Premiere Pro is preferred.

What you’ll do

You will work with recorded lectures, interviews, and panels, each approximately ninety minutes in length, to turn them into polished, captioned vertical videos for social media. Each lecture recording should result in 15–20 strong short-form clips. Your role is to review recordings, select the best moments, refine the edits, clean up automated captions, and prepare finished vertical videos for review.

This role requires both technical care and editorial judgment. You should be comfortable working across video editing and captioning tools, including Adobe Premiere, Opus Clip, and other short-form video platforms as needed. We’re looking for someone who can recognize when a video clip contains a strong idea, a clear emotional or intellectual hook, or enough context to stand on its own.

Responsibilities include:

• Selecting and ranking the strongest moments from each recording.
• Creating and tightening edits for pacing, clarity, and flow.
• Making sure clips feel complete and understandable on their own.
• Experimenting with AI-generated rough cuts of short-form clips for you to refine.
• Correcting automated caption and transcription errors.
• Adjusting visual framing, captions, title cards, and lower thirds.
• Ranking and renaming final exports in an organized manner.
• Maintaining simple tracking notes for each batch of clips.
• Flagging unclear references, names, or possible errors.

You might be a strong fit if you are:

• A video editor with strong skills and taste.
• Excited about the intersection of art, education, and digital media.
• Familiar with formatting vertical video for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or similar platforms.
• Detailed oriented, with strong captioning and proofreading skills.
• Organized and comfortable with file management.
• Able to work independently and meet deadlines.

Application Requirements

Apply on Handshake with:

• a résumé
• 3–5 captioned vertical video editing samples
• a link to any social media accounts you run with comparable vertical video content
• a short introduction; include a few sentences about your relationship to contemporary art and what makes a short-form video clip compelling to you

Or email your application materials to: hiring@artistcommons.art