Senior Video Editor
Zipline, the autonomous drone delivery company, is hiring a hands-on Senior Video Editor in South San Francisco to craft social, brand, product, technical, and internal videos within its communications team. The role centers on story editing, pacing, sound, color, versioning, and QC using tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Adobe Audition.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Creative
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of professional video-editing and post-production experience
- Strong reel and portfolio demonstrating editorial judgment, pacing, emotional range, and multi-format work
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro or another professional nonlinear editing system
- Strong working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Audition or comparable audio tools, and post-production workflows
- Experience editing interviews, documentary/observational footage, product stories, technical explainers, social content, and brand communications
- Strong instincts for story structure, performance, pacing, music, sound, visual rhythm, and audience attention
- Professional experience with dialogue editing, sound design, music editing, audio cleanup and balancing, color correction, conform, captions, and finishing
- Working knowledge of motion-graphics and visual-effects pipelines for briefing, turnovers, integration, and QC
- Strong technical knowledge of codecs, containers, frame rates, resolutions, aspect ratios, color spaces, audio specs, captions, and platform delivery requirements
- Excellent organization across media ingest, proxies, transcripts, project files, feedback, versions, masters, and archives
- Ability to manage multiple edits and review cycles with accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to learn complex subject matter and preserve technical accuracy for broad audiences
Nice to have
- Experience editing work about robotics, autonomy, aviation, logistics, hardware, infrastructure, or healthcare
- Experience with multicamera editing, remote or field editing, localization, archival workflows, or external finishing vendors
- Familiarity with AI-assisted post-production tools (transcription, cleanup, search, versioning)
Full description
About Zipline
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and The Role
Zipline’s communications team shapes and shares the company’s story and impact. We develop and implement strategies and tactics to educate our target audiences about Zipline, tell stories that raise awareness about what we’re doing and the impact that we’re having, increase acceptance of and excitement for our system, and cultivate ambassadors. We are passionate storytellers and make complex topics simple and understandable.
Zipline is expanding in the U.S. and will be delivering food, medicine, retail items and more directly to people’s homes in many states over the next few years. We are seeking a Senior Video Editor to turn footage, interviews, sound, graphics, product imagery, and other source material into clear and engaging stories.
You will edit social and brand video, product launches, technical explainers, customer stories, interviews, events, recruiting content, and internal communications. You will work closely with a Video Producer, Cinematographer, and Motion Designer, as well as Communications, Brand, Social, Marketing, engineers, and operators. This is a hands-on post-production role centered on story construction, pacing, dialogue, music, sound, routine color and finishing, versioning, quality control, and organized delivery.