Job Description
THE ROLE Sleepline is a YouTube channel covering sleep science, mattress industry analysis, and cultural history of sleep. We're looking for a video editor who specializes in essay-style content, the kind you'd see on channels like Wendover Productions, Polymatter, Johnny Harris, or Knowing Better. This is not a standard product review editing gig. Essay content requires a fundamentally different editing approach: pacing narrative arcs, integrating custom graphics, building visual storytelling out of narration and B-roll, and maintaining viewer engagement across 13 to 20 minute runtimes without a product on screen to cut to. What You'd Be Editing Long-form video essays (13 to 20 minutes) on topics like the cultural history of sleep, the economics of the mattress industry, sleep science, and related subjects. These videos feature a single presenter on camera with narration-driven storytelling supported by custom graphics, historical imagery, diagrams, maps, archival material, and text o...