Senior Video Editor, YouTube – Inc42

Inc42 is India's #1 media and intelligence platform on the startup economy – covering journalism, Datalabs (India's largest free startup database, with 75,000+ companies), our flagship Editorial IPs (AI Summit, D2C & Retail Summit, FAST42, D2C Retreat), and Griffin , India's most curated private founder club.

Why this role exists

Inc42 is building its YouTube division from 0 to 1. We're revamping the channel, setting the strategy, building the formats and scaling it – long-form explainers, founder conversations, podcasts and original IPs built on a decade of startup journalism and data.

The edit is where that gets won or lost. We're hiring a senior editor who treats YouTube as its own language, takes a project from raw footage to final master without needing every decision prescribed, and sets the post-production standard the rest of the division works to.

What you'll own

• •Long-form YouTube edits, end to end: Explainers, founder interviews, podcasts and documentary-style stories, from raw footage to final master. This is the core of the job.
• •Story and structure in the edit: Finding the strongest moments, restructuring when the material demands it, building the opening and the momentum, knowing when to cut and when to let a moment breathe.
• •Podcast and multi-cam turnaround: Fast, clean first cuts on multi-camera conversations, so a shoot reaches the audience while it still matters.
• •Visual storytelling: B-roll, archival, screenshots, charts, on-screen text, sound design and everyday motion graphics that keep information-heavy subjects moving.
• •Shorts from long-form: Platform-native Shorts and cutdowns that are rebuilt for the format, not chopped from the timeline.
• •The post-production standard: Templates, presets, project structure, review workflow and delivery specs, including reviewing and raising the bar on freelance edits.
• •AI in the pipeline: Transcription, cleanup, roto, upscaling, generative assets – used every day where they genuinely make the work better or faster.

Who you are

• •A YouTube editor at heart: You know YouTube pacing is not television pacing, and your reel proves it.
• •Editorially independent: You look at raw footage and see the story. You challenge weak sections and suggest structure, rather than waiting for a script to cut to.
• •Retention-conscious: You can point to where viewers drop off in a video you cut, and explain what you'd change.
• •Fast without being sloppy: You've delivered against fixed dates on footage-heavy projects, and your first cuts arrive close to final.
• •Systems-minded: You think about how the next ten edits get faster, not just how to finish this one.
• •AI-native: AI tools are part of how you work, not an experiment you tried once.
• •Open on background: YouTube channels, digital newsrooms, creator teams or production houses. We care about the reel and the judgement, not the logo.

Must have: 6+ years of professional editing with substantial long-form YouTube work · Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve · working After Effects for everyday motion · colour and audio finishing · comfort with large multi-cam projects.

Good to have: podcast editing · documentary or explainer work · advanced motion design · event films.

Your first 30 days

• •Get inside the channel, the formats in production and the current post-production workflow.
• •Take over live edits, starting with podcasts, and bring first-cut turnaround down.
• •Put the first version of the templates, presets and delivery specs in place.
• •Agree the review and approval steps with the Head of YouTube & Distribution, with time limits on each.

What we offer

• •A 0-to-1 build: you set the editing language of a new YouTube division.
• •High-visibility work with India's founders, investors and business leaders.
• •Real data and editorial depth behind every story you cut.
• •Budget for software, plugins and the tools to do premium work.
• •Competitive compensation.
• •Delhi-based, in-person.