Role Summary

We are seeking a versatile individual to join our Creative Studio team as a Lead Video Editor. The focus of this role is to craft compelling, high-impact Rivian brand content. This includes cinematic campaign editorial as well as sleek, fast-paced social executions. This dual-discipline role requires a strong blend of narrative storytelling, technical precision, and modern post-production expertise.

The position involves day-to-day collaboration across Production, Integrated Marketing, Organic Social, and Performance teams. You will manage your own edits while supporting lead editors and creative directors on larger product launches and multi-channel campaigns. You will contribute directly to Rivian's success by creating best-in-class, performance-optimized video across owned, earned, and paid channels.

You are a natural visual storyteller who thrives in a fast-paced creative environment. You understand how to tailor pacing, rhythm, and tone for different platforms and audiences. You know how to balance high aesthetic standards with strategic business goals.

Responsibilities

• Editorial and Narrative: Weave compelling narratives from raw camera footage (such as RED, ARRI, or Sony Log) that align with marketing strategies, product launches, and brand campaigns.
• Audio and Sound Design: Expertly assemble dialogue, cut music from provided libraries, and craft sound design and audio mixes to elevate visual storytelling.
• Motion Graphics and Branding: Design and animate brand-accurate video assets, kinetic typography, lower-thirds, and graphics templates in Premiere Pro or After Effects.
• Social and Performance Optimization: Translate campaign briefs into video deliverables tailored to platform-specific aspect ratios across widescreen, vertical, and square formats. Partner with Social and Performance Marketing to test hooks, edit quick-turn iterations, and optimize assets for maximum engagement on social channels.
• Editorial Support and Prepping: Support lead editors on high-tier campaigns by prepping project files, creating proxies, building selects sequences, color balancing, and managing complex versioning tasks.
• Media Management and Pipeline: Organize footage and maintain strict media management protocols within our digital asset ecosystem. Adhere to file-naming conventions, folder structures, and remote desktop / central server workflows. Stay current on short-form editing trends, audio trends, and modern visual culture.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of professional video editing experience, with at least 2+ years dedicated to agency, in-house, or commercial brand content.
• Portfolio: Portfolio demonstrating storytelling across a variety of channels, with strong examples of brand video work.
• NLE Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro. Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite is required, and experience with DaVinci Resolve is a plus. Deep understanding of proxy workflows, color management, and high-bitrate media formats.
• Motion Graphics Skills: Ability to concept, design, and animate video assets, lower-thirds, title cards, and text animation directly in Premiere Pro or After Effects.
• Technical Workflow: Experience working in shared storage and remote editing environments, such as Remote Desktop connections to centralized SAN/NAS server infrastructure.
• Social Literacy: In-depth knowledge of platform specs, safe zones, hook-driven editing strategies, vertical aspect ratios, and trending audio dynamics across social channels.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation skills for internal creative reviews. Strong attention to detail, ability to handle competing deadlines, adapt quickly to changing creative direction, and actively incorporate feedback.

Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this role is $112,100 to $140,100 for Irvine, California based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.

You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than 10/9/2026.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.