Job Description: Video Editor and Motion Graphics Designer

Company: House of Karmè (Karmè Social)

Location: Hyderabad (on-site / hybrid)

Type: Full-time (freelance and intern variants below)

Reports to: Founder / Creative Lead

About the Role

Karmè Social is a brand and social media agency working with D2C, F&B, healthcare, and premium lifestyle brands. We are looking for a Video Editor and Motion Graphics Designer who can take raw footage and brand guidelines and turn them into scroll-stopping reels, ad creatives, and brand films.

You will not be a render monkey. You will sit inside the creative process, from brief to cut to performance feedback.

What You Will Do

Editing

• Edit short-form vertical content: Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Meta ad creatives

• Cut UGC-style, direct response, and premium brand-film formats

• Build hook-first edits (first 3 seconds decide everything)

• Sound design, music selection, sync, and pacing

• Colour correction and basic grading for brand consistency

Motion Graphics

• Design and animate typography, lower thirds, kinetic text, and captions

• Build logo animations, brand stings, and transition packs

• Create animated carousels, explainer graphics, and product demo animations

• Maintain and extend motion systems per brand (each client has its own motion language)

Process

• Work from written creative briefs and storyboards

• Deliver in platform-correct specs (9:16, 4:5, 1:1, 16:9)

• Maintain organised project files, bins, and asset libraries

• Version control and clean handoffs so nothing is lost between rounds

• Take performance feedback (retention drop-offs, hook rate) and re-cut accordingly

Collaboration

• Work alongside the brand strategy, design, and content teams

• Occasionally support on-set: shot logging, basic camera assist, data backup

Must Have

• 1 to 3 years of editing experience (agency, in-house brand, or strong freelance portfolio)

• Adobe Premiere Pro (advanced) and After Effects (intermediate to advanced)

• Working knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator for asset prep

• Demonstrable understanding of short-form pacing and retention

• Portfolio or showreel with at least 3 pieces of vertical social content

• Ability to hit deadlines without chasing

Good to Have

• DaVinci Resolve for grading

• Figma (to pull design assets and stay aligned with the design team)

• Basic 3D (Blender, Cinema 4D) or Rive / Lottie

• Sound design chops beyond stock library

• Experience editing performance ad creative (Meta / Google) and reading creative fatigue

• Telugu, Hindi, or English subtitling and caption styling

Who You Are (psychographic fit, not just skill fit)

• You watch a reel and instinctively know why it worked

• You care about the 4th frame as much as the 40th

• You would rather redo a cut than ship something mediocre

• You are opinionated in the review, not passive

• You are organised, because chaos in the timeline shows up in the final cut

  
  

What We Offer

• Direct ownership of client-facing creative work, with your name on it

• Exposure to strategy, not just execution (you will sit in brand and campaign discussions)