Summary
Huda Beauty is seeking a Junior Video Editor for its Post Production team in Dubai. The role focuses on editing social-first videos for platforms including Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, while maintaining the brand’s visual style and meeting publishing schedules. Candidates should have 1–2 years of professional video editing experience, proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, and working knowledge of AI editing tools. A portfolio or showreel link is required with the application.
The posting
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Who We Are: At Huda Beauty, our Vision is to lead in creating a democratized beauty industry where power is given back to people to define, create, and enjoy beauty for themselves! Launched by award-winning beauty powerhouse Huda Kattan in 2013, Huda Beauty is one of the world’s fastest growing beauty brands. As a company, we are fueled by purpose and not profit, this allows us to approach things differently so that we can create products, content, and a community like no other. A lot has changed since our launch in 2013, but something that will forever remain at the core of Huda Beauty is our focus on business excellence and our unwavering passion for kindness!
Summary: We are looking for a sharp, fast, and creatively intuitive Junior Video Editor to join our Post Production team. This is a social-first role: your primary scope is developing platform-native content that captures Huda Beauty’s rhythm, pace, and visual identity, consistently on brief and on time. You’ll work closely with the Head of Post Production and cross-functional teams across Creative, Social, and Production.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Social Content (Primary Focus)
- Produce fast-turnaround, platform-optimized video content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms - reels, stories, tutorials, UGC-style edits, and product launches.
- Translate briefs into polished edits that feel native to the platform and true to the Huda Beauty brand aesthetic: pace, rhythm, sound, and color.
- Develop a strong instinct for what performs, staying on top of trends, platform behavior, and audience expectations within the beauty space.
- Work at speed without sacrificing quality; manage simultaneous edits across multiple formats and timelines.
- Collaborate closely with the Social and Creative teams to align edits with campaign direction and publishing schedules.
Post Production & Craft
- Execute polished edits with strong attention to detail and sound: music selection and pacing – and motion graphics where required.
- Ensure all deliverables meet Huda Beauty’s brand standards across resolution, format, and platform specs.
- Maintain organized project files, asset libraries, and export pipelines within the team’s workflow.
- Contribute to the refinement of the team’s editing style guide and post-production workflows.
AI
- Working knowledge of AI-assisted editing tools is expected, whether for efficiency, ideation, or workflow enhancement.
- Proactively explore and flag emerging AI tools relevant to post production and content creation.
Requirements
- 1–2 years of professional video editing experience, with a strong and demonstrable focus on social content.
- Working proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro; additional fluency in After Effects.
- Deep understanding of social platform formats, specs, and content trends, particularly Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
- Ability to edit at pace across multiple concurrent projects while maintaining high attention to detail.
- Strong ear for sound: music selection and audio pacing, and a working grasp of motion graphics.
- Working knowledge of AI editing tools.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative working style.
- High degree of accountability and ownership.
- Previous experience working in a post-production house, agency, or in-house brand.
- Previous experience editing content for a beauty, lifestyle, or consumer brand.
- A portfolio or showreel is required to be considered for this role. Please include a link when applying. Candidates are encouraged to highlight social content edits within their reel.
Benefits
- Monthly “Self Love Days” – at company discretion
- Premium Medical/Dental/Vision coverage for employee plus dependents
- Monthly coaching sessions with our in-house Success Coach
- Employee discounts on all Huda Beauty products
- Quarterly product gifting
Huda Beauty is committed to building diverse and inclusive teams and upholding an equal employment workplace that is free from discrimination. We hire stellar individuals regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, medical conditions, disability, or veteran status. If you need reasonable accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.