Video Editor - AI

About the role

Kuku TV is looking for a Mid-Senior Video Editor (2-5 years) who can turn scripts, performances, live-action footage, and AI-generated visuals into high-retention, binge-worthy micro-dramas .

What you'll do

• You’ll work across live-action + AI-generated content in a fast-paced, high-volume episodic production environment.
• 🎬 Storytelling & Editing
• Edit live-action and AI-generated micro-dramas for mobile-first audiences.
• Create powerful opening hooks, emotional peaks, reveals, twists, payoffs, and cliffhangers .
• Shape dialogue, performances, music, SFX, voiceovers, and visuals into compelling narratives.
• Select the strongest takes to maximise emotion, conflict, suspense, and character relationships .
• Maintain strong pacing, visual rhythm, dialogue clarity, narrative progression, and audience retention.
• Apply principles of information control, escalating conflict, pattern interruption, and retention-driven editing .

What they're looking for

• 2, 7 years of professional video-editing experience, preferably in fiction, micro-dramas, web series, films, TV, advertising, digital entertainment, or narrative short-form content.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling, dramatic pacing, emotional editing, and technical polish .
• Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro skills.
• Advanced Adobe after Effects skills, including compositing, masking, and tracking, cleanup, and motion graphics.
• Strong knowledge of Gen AI tool - Runaway, ElevanLabs, Kling, Veo, Adobe Firefly, Topaz or equivalent
• Working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve for colour correction, grading, finishing, and media management.
• Strong understanding of narrative structure, screen direction, continuity, performance selection, montage, shot progression, and visual rhythm .
• Experience editing dialogue-driven scenes, romance, emotional sequences, action, confrontations, reveals, and cliffhangers .

Nice to have

• Fluent Hindi and working proficiency in English.
• Experience with micro-dramas, vertical dramas, episodic fiction, web series, or retention-driven entertainment .
• Experience in fast-turnaround, high-volume episodic production .
• Familiarity with subtitles, dubbing, localisation, and multilingual versioning .
• Knowledge of proxy workflows, shared storage, media relinking, project templates, automated syncing, and structured post-production handoffs .
• Basic understanding of OTT and digital-platform delivery standards .

About Kuku (Kuku TV)