Video Editor

Cut the short-form video that sells a publishing company — founder clips, book trailers, and social content that survives the first three seconds.

Most of our marketing now lives or dies in the first three seconds of a vertical video. We need an editor who understands that, and who can cut for retention rather than for a showreel.

HMD Publishing is a UK self-publishing agency — over 10,000 books brought to market for authors in 47 countries. Our video output is a steady weekly rhythm rather than occasional set pieces: founder talking-head shorts for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube; longer YouTube tutorials for authors; cinematic book trailers for client launches; and cut-downs of all of the above.

You will get raw footage and a script, and you will own everything after that — pacing, cuts, captions, sound design, motion graphics, thumbnails. Nobody will frame-check you. We will judge the work by whether people watch it to the end.

The volume is real, so speed matters as much as polish. A tidy project structure and a template system you actually maintain will make your life much easier here than a bespoke build every time.

This role is fully remote and open worldwide, with a few hours of overlap with the marketing team.

To apply, send your CV and a reel or a link to recent work. We are most interested in short-form vertical video with real view counts attached — tell us which ones performed and, if you know, why.