Top Editor Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Creates performance-driven creative for paid social, YouTube, demand generation, email, and CTV campaigns. Develops video and image advertising assets, collaborates with growth and marketing teams, manages creative workflows, iterates rapidly based on testing, monitors industry trends, and maintains brand consistency while optimizing creative performance in a fast-paced e-commerce environment.

Edit short- and long-form video, create motion graphics and technical visualizations, and produce platform-specific content for brand, recruiting, sales, and social channels. Manage projects from ingest through delivery, including sound design, color finishing, captions, asset organization, versioning, and archiving. Collaborate with cinematography and marketing teams, develop reusable production systems, and turn industrial processes and complex ideas into compelling stories.

The Managing Editor will oversee the editorial vision for 'New Industry Friday', manage content strategies, write and edit impactful stories, and ensure editorial integrity while collaborating with teams.

Create original premium social video content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other channels. Translate creative direction, show moments, and strategic ideas into engaging content while applying strong storytelling, pacing, music, graphics, sound, and visual-style judgment. Execute briefs and proactively improve work to make it sharper, more distinctive, and more engaging.

Senior Photo Editor responsible for processing photography from backlog through final delivery, managing ingest and archiving workflows, creating reusable presets, and establishing consistent color, lighting, and retouching standards. The role also supports on-set Digitech work and occasional product, hardware, portrait, or event photography. This is a hands-on, onsite, 60-day fixed-term position in Long Beach, California.

Freelance YouTube Editor responsible for creating and optimizing long-form YouTube videos, YouTube-native programming, and weekly short-form podcast cutdowns for Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels. The role manages editing, hooks, pacing, chaptering, captions, thumbnails, platform-specific styling, publishing coordination, and performance experimentation. Success is measured through subscriber growth, watch time, click-through rate, audience retention, and content output. The position requires close collaboration with video producers, social teams, programming, and graphics specialists.

Owns the complete editing process for Hot Smart Rich longform episodes, from initial assembly through final delivery. Shapes conversations into engaging stories using pacing, sound, music, graphics, archive, and visual storytelling. Collaborates with producers, creative and social teams, applies audience retention insights, maintains organized project files and version control, and ensures technically compliant publishing. The role also supports videography and photography while managing deadlines and improving workflows with new editing technologies and AI tools.

Create and manage digital-first video content across web, social, and CTV. Responsibilities include concept development, storyboarding, filming, editing, motion graphics, animation, agency direction, and end-to-end project ownership. The role translates complex ideas into engaging visual stories, manages multiple productions, improves workflows with AI-enabled tools, and maintains brand and design quality across campaigns and platforms.

Own video ad editing from raw footage through final delivery for social and CTV. Shape stories, hooks, pacing, graphics, and multiple aspect ratios with minimal direction. Collaborate with strategy and production teams, provide pre-shoot editorial input, use performance data to improve creative, and help streamline post-production workflows. The role requires strong editorial judgment, advanced Premiere Pro skills, and experience producing compelling stories from unscripted footage.

Reviews, edits, and quality-checks informed consent forms for regulatory and organizational compliance. Applies sponsor and site language, collaborates with IRB stakeholders, mentors editors, attends IRB meetings, maintains human-subjects research knowledge, and supports process improvements. The role requires managing multiple editing projects while ensuring accuracy, clarity, and adherence to U.S. and Canadian clinical research regulations and guidelines.

Drafts, edits, formats, and reviews policies, procedures, reports, inquiries, and executive communications for a federal agency. Manages document approval and clearance processes, conducts policy research, supports FOIA and congressional responses, coordinates stakeholder reviews, and maintains document and knowledge management processes. The role also supports interagency coordination, briefing materials, talking points, and special projects.

The Managing Editor leads daily newsroom operations, editorial workflow, story assignments, editing, fact-checking, and publication standards. The role manages editors, reporters, freelancers, calendars, budgets, hiring, and performance feedback while partnering with the Editor-in-Chief on strategy. Responsibilities also include coordinating with audience, social, video, and development teams, tracking editorial output and impact, and supporting investigative journalism focused on factory farming and related environmental, public health, labor, and rural community issues.

Edit and produce shortform videos for YouTube Shorts and other platforms, collaborating with creators, researchers, and engineers to identify stories, develop concepts, capture footage, publish content, and iterate based on audience reception. The role owns the editing process and requires strong video-editing experience, creative vision, sound judgment, and alignment with the organization’s mission.

Writes and edits accurate, accessible criminal and DUI legal content for consumer websites. Uses AI-enhanced editorial workflows, updates content for accuracy and style, collaborates with and trains freelance writers, and contributes to books, social media, and other legal content. Requires a law degree, at least two years of criminal or DUI practice, strong writing and editing skills, and the ability to explain complex legal issues to nonlawyers.

The Northeast Regional Editor coordinates coverage between NPR, regional hubs, and member stations; edits and fact-checks audio, digital, and broadcast content; leads breaking-news responses; integrates stories across shows and platforms; tracks regional news trends; mentors journalists; promotes inclusive sourcing; and manages freelancer agreements, commissions, payments, and newsroom workflows.

Review and QA AI-assisted SEO content for B2B clients, catch factual and technical issues, publish 3–5 articles daily across CMSs, optimise on-page elements, maintain QA logs, and improve content workflows to sustain high client approval.

Freelance remote translator and copy editor translating English content into Hebrew for marketing, UI, product, support, informational, and light legal materials. The role requires native or near-native Hebrew, excellent English, professional translation experience, CAT tool proficiency, strong attention to detail, reliability, responsiveness, and the ability to meet deadlines and incorporate feedback.

Lead content strategy and editorial operations for a digital magazine and web content: commission, write/edit, manage a multimedia editorial team, own P&L, grow advertising and sponsorship revenue, oversee design and digital publishing, hire and develop staff, and represent the magazine at industry events.

Edit short-form video advertisements for TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook, and YouTube Shorts. Transform scripts and concepts into polished videos using captions, motion graphics, animation, sound design, visual effects, stock footage, and AI-generated assets. Collaborate with creative and marketing teams, optimize content for multiple platforms, monitor trends, manage multiple projects, and deliver high-quality work on schedule.

Create high-performance trailers and teasers from long-form interviews and episodes. Own the editing process from narrative development and assembly through sound design, music, B-roll preparation, experimentation, and final export. Use YouTube and TikTok performance data to optimize retention, pacing, and engagement, while integrating AI tools into editing workflows. Collaborate with creative, social, growth, commercial, and trailer teams, and support junior editors with systems and templates.

Edit weekly long-form podcast episodes from 9–13 camera angles, shaping engaging narratives that maximize audience retention and emotional impact. Manage multicam timelines, audio synchronization, project files, and production workflows. Collaborate with senior creatives, contribute to pre-production planning, research YouTube trends, respond to feedback, and share editing systems and best practices with the team.

The Standards Editor will uphold The Wall Street Journal’s reporting, style, fairness, and ethics standards. Responsibilities include pre-publication review of high-impact journalism, advising reporters and editors with media attorneys, resolving post-publication issues, adjudicating disputes, and protecting readers’ interests. The role requires extensive journalism experience, high-level editing and management expertise, strong news judgment, fairness, and thorough knowledge of the Journal’s standards and processes.

Edit founder-led short-form videos for YouTube and social channels, transforming scripts and footage into visually compelling stories. Responsibilities include motion graphics, typography, UI treatments, sourced footage, music, sound design, pacing, and retention-focused editing. The editor will collaborate directly with leadership, develop Snowball’s editing language, source creative assets, incorporate feedback, and independently deliver polished content that builds the brand and generates business.

Leads Entertainment Weekly’s after-hours entertainment news operation by curating coverage, assigning and editing stories, handling breaking news, and prioritizing the editorial queue. Manages writers, provides feedback, makes independent editorial decisions, and ensures timely, high-quality coverage. The role also reports and writes entertainment stories while applying strong knowledge of pop culture, SEO, analytics, social media, and digital publishing.

Edit provided footage into clean, engaging videos and create simple graphics. Post consistently, maintain an authentic Muslim-inspired style, collaborate with the team, and accept feedback.