Assistant Editor

Westbrook was formed to execute the Smith Family’s vision to improve as many lives as possible through storytelling. Our parent company, Westbrook Inc., furthers that mission by providing strategic, financial, legal, and operational support to our studio and media companies and developing new business opportunities for revenue growth and diversification. Our subsidiary companies make best in class content across formats (e.g., short form, unscripted and scripted television, film, and audio) and produce unique consumer goods and experiences that scale our original IP and delight and inspire audiences.

Westbrook Media, our digital content studio, is searching for an Assistant Editor to manage workflows and provide edit support in a fast-paced post-production environment working on a variety of streaming and content operations final products.  Additionally, will work to ensure raw footage from third party productions as well as in-house productions meet the highest technical standards for editing post-production environments.

In this role, you will: 

• Work closely with the Post, Story, and Edit teams.
• Implement folder structure and naming conventions on all assets.
• Ingest, transcode and distribute media following company specs.
• Confirm asset readiness and accuracy prior to edits.
• Make basic editorial decisions within provided guidelines.
• Identify and troubleshoot media discrepancies related to fonts, frame rates, resolution and codecs.
• Manipulate and alter text and graphics within Premiere and/or After Effects.
• Export secure internal and client-facing cuts, upload to Frame.io workspaces.
• Consolidate sequences, uprez offline edits and relink to raw media.
• Prep turnover for Online Editor and Mixer, conform online sequences from color and mix.
• Output and QC master video and audio deliverables for network.
• Assist with creation and tracking of project deliverables needed for both regional and domestic air.
• Perform isolated media management and project archiving duties as needed.
• Notify engineering of equipment problems and discuss workflow issues.
• Collaborate with the team to solve technical problems as needed.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Who You Are: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Video/Film Production, Communications or related field is preferred.
• Minimum 2-3 years of Assistant editing, working both supervised and unsupervised with clients is a must.
• Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder and After Effects.
• Knowledge of different broadcast and digital formats.
• Must be able to work with a variety of frame rates and video codecs.
• Must have basic compression knowledge.
• Must have strong working knowledge of offline/online workflows.
• Must have working knowledge of Frame.io.
• Must have problem-solving skills and perseverance to help resolve technical issues that may arise.
• Must be detail oriented and possess excellent verbal and written skills.
• Must have the ability to work unsupervised.
• Must have strong organizational skills and the ability to adapt to changing needs and priorities.
• Must possess the ability to handle multiple simultaneous projects with a professional demeanor and prioritize work while under pressure.
• Must be able to work flexible hours including split day/evening shift, nights, weekends and holidays as needed.

Westbrook is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Westbrook believes that diversity and inclusion among our colleagues is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.