Edit videos to targeted lengths and platform-specific specifications
Design and animate motion graphic assets for various content needs
Organize and manage raw footage and edited video files
Export videos in the required formats for mobile and web distribution
Color grade footage to ensure visual consistency and elevate production quality
Add dynamic visual effects such as speed ramping, masking, tracking, and rotoscoping
Shoot and produce content when necessary
Explore multiple edit directions and pitch creative ideas
Ensure compliance with the highest journalistic and creative standards
Modify formats and file sizes for different platforms as needed
Collaborate closely with Directors to ensure the final product reflects the intended vision
Troubleshoot and enhance footage by correcting lighting, color, and overall quality
Ability to implement trendy and advanced visual effects, including:
Speed ramping
Masking and rotoscoping
Motion tracking
Custom visual transitions across different styles and vibes
Balance and fix sound, ensuring a seamless mix between music and sound effects
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional editing experience
- Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal
- Expertise in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
- Can create motion graphic videos from concept to final delivery
- Shooting skills is a plus.
- Skilled in color grading with a strong creative eye for tone, mood, and aesthetics
- Ability to source content, match scripts, adapt clips, and craft compelling stories
- Knowledge of social media video formats and specifications
- Strong understanding of news, sports, and current affairs
- Degree in multimedia or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
PEOPLE :
Assist in fostering a high performance led culture
Bring along a positive, collaborative, ready to learn attitude at all times
Develop SMART performance objectives alongside your line manager
Promoting Augustus as a great place to work, ensuring positivity is championed and your team feels prepared to live out the 3 core values
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Build on your emotional intelligence and self-awareness
Grow your presence in the industry, including relationships within agency partners and industry bodies to support professional stature
Complete mandatory training
ABOUT AUGUSTUS
The consumption of media is ever present, yet the mediums and the means are ever evolving. We are a ‘New Media’ company, born in one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the Middle East. Our vision is to establish and maintain a ‘New Order’ of media advertising with data and content at the heart of everything we do.
Augustus is a Middle Eastern digital media company based in Dubai and Riyadh and has been designed to adapt and evolve to this perpetually changing media environment. Our mission is to be the ‘New Media’ company of choice in the Middle East by generating profitable growth through innovation and breaking the mold in marketing communications.
Values
We understand that achieving our mission is based upon strong values and we have identified
three that sit right at our core.
• Ingenuity: There is a bit of genius in everything we do. We take pride in our creative originality.
• Tenacity: Good things come to those who work for them. We always persevere and persist.
