Video Editor, Sr. — United States

About The Company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, dedicated to serving 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. Operating on four continents, Zipline 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 some of the world’s largest healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants, and global businesses who depend on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide rapid delivery solutions. The drone itself represents only 15% of the technology we’ve developed to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With over 140 million commercial autonomous miles flown safely, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food worldwide. We operate at a global scale and seek 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 welcome individuals who think from first principles, embrace adversity, and achieve the impossible at record-breaking speeds.

About The Role

Zipline’s communications team is responsible for shaping and sharing the company’s story and impact. We develop and implement strategies to educate target audiences about Zipline, raise awareness of our work and its impact, increase acceptance and excitement for our system, and cultivate ambassadors. We are passionate storytellers who simplify complex topics.

As Zipline expands in the U.S., delivering food, medicine, retail items, and more directly to people’s homes, we are seeking a Senior Video Editor. This role involves transforming footage, interviews, sound, graphics, product imagery, and other source materials into clear and engaging stories. You will edit a variety of content, including social and brand videos, product launches, technical explainers, customer stories, interviews, events, recruiting content, and internal communications.

You will collaborate closely with the Video Producer, Cinematographer, Motion Designer, and teams across Communications, Brand, Social, Marketing, engineering, and operations. This is a hands-on post-production role focused on story construction, pacing, dialogue, music, sound, color correction, finishing, versioning, quality control, and organized delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional video editing and post-production experience in an in-house creative team, agency, studio, production company, media organization, or similar environment.

• A strong reel and portfolio demonstrating editorial judgment, pacing, emotional range, and work across multiple formats with clearly identified roles.

• 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 from ingest through final delivery.

• Experience editing interviews, documentary or observational footage, product stories, technical explainers, social content, and brand communications.

• Strong instincts for story structure, performance, pacing, music, sound, visual rhythm, and audience engagement.

• Professional experience with dialogue editing, sound design, music editing, audio cleanup and balancing, color correction, conforming, captions, and finishing.

• Working knowledge of motion graphics and visual effects pipelines sufficient to brief, turn over, integrate, version, and quality-check work from Motion Designers or external partners.

• Strong technical knowledge of codecs, containers, frame rates, resolutions, aspect ratios, color spaces, audio specifications, captions, and platform delivery requirements.

• Excellent organization skills for managing media ingest, proxies, transcripts, project files, feedback, versions, masters, and archives.

• Ability to manage multiple edits and review cycles while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and attention to detail.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including explaining editorial choices, incorporating feedback, and working effectively with creative and technical partners.

• Ability to learn complex subject matter and maintain technical accuracy while making information accessible to a broad audience.

• Experience editing content related to robotics, autonomy, aviation, logistics, hardware, infrastructure, or healthcare is a plus.

• Experience with multicamera editing, remote or field editing, localization, archival workflows, or external finishing vendors is a plus.

• Familiarity with transcription, cleanup, search, versioning, and AI-assisted post-production tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Edit short- and medium-form video content for social media, web, events, presentations, internal channels, and other communications needs.

• Review briefs, scripts, transcripts, footage, product assets, screen recordings, archival material, and other sources to build clear editorial structures.

• Create selects, string-outs, assemblies, rough cuts, fine cuts, and final masters with close attention to story, pacing, performance, tone, continuity, and visual rhythm.

• Identify concise and emotionally credible stories in interviews, observational footage, product demonstrations, customer experiences, events, and operational capture.

• Partner with the Video Producer to confirm audience, deliverables, schedules, review rounds, feedback routing, and delivery requirements.

• Collaborate with the Cinematographer on footage assessment, coverage, continuity, exposure, color intent, and any pickup needs.

• Work with the Motion Designer on animation briefs, timing, placeholders, turnovers, renders, revisions, and integration of final motion assets.

• Edit and clean dialogue, select and place music, build sound design, balance mixes, and prepare audio for final delivery or external mixing.

• Complete color correction and routine grading for in-house projects; prepare organized turnovers, conforms, and reference files when external color or finishing is used.

• Create and manage versions across durations, aspect ratios, placements, captions, languages, calls to action, and platform specifications.

• Incorporate consolidated feedback, maintain clear version history, and preserve continuity across review rounds and deliverable variants.

• Perform technical quality control across picture, sound, captions, graphics, color, frame rates, codecs, aspect ratios, naming conventions, and destination requirements.

• Maintain organized media, proxies, project files, graphics, music, licenses, captions, review links, masters, and archives to ensure work remains searchable and reusable.

• Contribute to the development of practical editing templates, project structures, export presets, naming conventions, review practices, and archive workflows to improve consistency and turnaround times.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a global leader in autonomous logistics and drone delivery technology.

• Collaborative and mission-driven work environment focused on innovation and impact.

• Exposure to cutting-edge technology and complex, meaningful projects that affect lives worldwide.

• Professional growth opportunities within a rapidly expanding company.

• Comprehensive support for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

• Competitive compensation and benefits package (details to be provided during the hiring process).

Equal Opportunity

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity and encourage applications from individuals who are traditionally underrepresented in technology. If you are interested in this position but feel you may not meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. Zipline is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.