JOB TITLE:Senior Story Editor
DEPARTMENTProduction
REPORTS TOSr Producer
LOCATIONRemote, West Coast Hours
ABOUT THE ROLE
R&R Partners is seeking a highly creative, story-driven Senior Editor to support the development of premium, social-first video content for brand and product campaigns.
This role is ideal for an editor who can take a wide range of existing assets - including product photography, white seamless footage, conceptual stills, packaging imagery, existing client footage, and creator-captured content - and shape them into compelling narratives built for today’s social platforms.
The ideal candidate is more than a technical editor. They are a visual storyteller who understands pacing, emotion, product storytelling, platform behavior, and how to make content feel engaging, modern, and culturally relevant. This person should be comfortable creating polished edits from imperfect or limited source material and finding the story within the assets provided.
A strong background in social content editing is required Animation and motion graphics skills are a major plus.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Edit story-driven, social-first video content across platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Meta, YouTube, and emerging channels.
- Transform existing product assets, campaign footage, stills, packaging imagery, and captured content into engaging video narratives.
- Build strong editorial structures from limited or disparate source materials.
- Create content that feels premium, fast-paced, platform-native, and emotionally engaging.
- Develop edits for product launches, social campaigns, organic content, paid social, ecommerce support, and brand storytelling.
- Partner closely with Producers, Creative, Social, Strategy, and Account teams to understand objectives, audiences, deliverables, and platform needs.
- Interpret creative briefs and shape edits that ladder back to campaign strategy and brand tone.
- Incorporate music, sound design, VO, supers, graphics, and motion elements where needed.
- Support post-production workflows from rough cut through final delivery.
- Maintain organized project files, version control, exports, and delivery specs.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure feedback is addressed clearly and efficiently.
- Bring proactive creative ideas to elevate edits beyond basic assembly.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Senior-level editing experience in advertising, social content, branded content, entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, toys, CPG, or product-driven campaigns.
- Strong portfolio of social-first work that demonstrates storytelling, pacing, taste, and platform fluency.
- Experience editing with product assets, stills, packaging imagery, existing footage, and mixed-media source material.
- Ability to create compelling narratives without always relying on traditional scripted footage.
- Strong understanding of paid and organic social formats, aspect ratios, pacing, hooks, and platform behavior.
- Experience creating content for product launches, drops, collaborations, collector audiences, or fandom-driven brands is a plus.
- Animation, motion graphics, typography, and light compositing skills are highly preferred.
- Experience working with Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, and related post-production tools.
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment while staying closely connected to the team.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with multiple deliverables, revisions, and deadlines.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Strong editorial storytelling instincts
- Excellent pacing, rhythm, and music sensibility
- Strong visual taste and attention to detail
- Ability to find a narrative through product, imagery, and motion
- Social-first editing sensibility
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Highly organized post-production workflow
- Comfort managing multiple edits, versions, and formats
- Ability to take feedback and translate it efficiently into stronger creative
- Proactive problem-solving and creative resourcefulness
- Animation skills a huge plus
- Some travel may be required
WHAT WE OFFER
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being.
- Recharge and unwind with a generous time-off policy
- Stay connected with a mobile stipend
- Secure your financial future with a 401k and company match
- Make a difference through community involvement with time and financial matching
- Set goals and track progress through annual performance reviews
- Learning and development
ABOUT R&R PARTNERS
Founded in 1974, R&R Partners is a full-service advertising agency with a long-standing tradition of producing award-winning creative solutions for some of the world's most iconic brands in the travel, tourism and hospitality, technology and innovation and purpose categories. As an independent agency, we are free to do what's necessary to help our partners achieve their goals. We don't shy away from taking on social issues and monumental tasks that transcend marketing because our people and our talents transcend what you'd find at a typical agency. Simply put, we’re built to do what other agencies can't. With a footprint in major markets across North America, we never let location get in the way of producing the best work for our clients, which include the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), Boeing, Allegiant Airlines, Las Vegas Raiders, Brand USA, Topgolf, Hyatt, Firestone Walker, Cox Business, Intermountain Healthcare, and many others.
