Senior Video Editor

Senior Video Editor Manifest Global · Delhi, India

What This Role Is

Every day, students across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond are making one of the most consequential decisions of their lives — where to study, which country to move to, which university to trust with the next four years. The counselors guiding them, the schools supporting them, and the universities trying to reach them are all part of an ecosystem that Manifest Global connects. Video is how that ecosystem sees Manifest — in a product explainer that makes a counselor understand Saige in ninety seconds, in a performance ad that stops a student mid-scroll, in a brand film that makes a university admissions director understand why Explore is different from every other outreach platform they have been pitched.

Right now, Manifest produces video across four brands, multiple markets, and dozens of formats — social content, product narratives, campaign storytelling, event coverage. The work reaches students, counselors, educators, and university partners globally. The question is whether the video output consistently reflects the quality and ambition of what Manifest is building — or whether it looks like what most EdTech companies produce.

This role exists to make sure it is the former.

The Senior Video Editor is the primary creative force behind Manifest Global's video output. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership of post-production — from raw footage through to final export — and the creative authority to set the standard for how Manifest's brands look, sound, and move on screen. You will work across campaigns, product launches, performance marketing, and brand storytelling. You will bring both the craft and the editorial judgment to make every frame of content worth watching.

What Makes This Role Different

Senior video editing roles in marketing teams often sit downstream of every creative decision. The brief arrives, the footage arrives, and the editor assembles. The creative direction has already happened elsewhere.

This role is not that. Manifest is building a central creative function where the Senior Video Editor shapes the editorial direction — not just executes it. When a campaign brief comes in, you are in the conceptualisation conversation, not waiting for the footage. When a product narrative needs to be told, you are the person who decides how it is told, not the person who renders someone else's storyboard. The craft is the baseline. The editorial judgment is what this role is actually hired for.

The scope is also genuinely broad. Four brands, multiple markets, student-facing content and institutional content that require completely different editorial sensibilities, performance ads and brand films that are the same craft applied to opposite objectives. The Senior Video Editor who can hold all of that — and make each piece feel like it was made with intention for its specific audience — is doing something that most video editors in marketing environments are not asked to do.

What You Own

End-to-end post-production across all Manifest brands

• Own the full post-production pipeline for digital marketing campaigns, product launches, brand storytelling, and performance marketing — rough cut, sound design, colour correction and grading, motion graphics, subtitling, platform-optimised export
• Produce high-impact video content across all major formats and platforms: social media, paid advertising, YouTube, email, website, and live event experiences — each adapted for the specific platform, audience, and objective it is built for
• Apply motion graphics, typography animation, and visual effects as storytelling tools — natively in After Effects — not as decoration but as the thing that makes the content land

Manifest's video brand language

• Own and evolve the visual identity of Manifest's video output across all four brands — ensuring that what Cialfo looks like on screen is distinct from what Explore looks like, and that both reflect the quality standard the group is building toward
• Make editorial decisions that reflect a sharp instinct for audience — student-facing energy and institutional credibility are not the same edit, and the person in this role knows the difference without being briefed on it
• Maintain consistency across every video touchpoint while preserving the creative flexibility that different campaigns and formats require

Creative contribution and stakeholder collaboration

• Contribute creative direction in campaign conceptualisation — not just execution — working with marketing, content, and design teams to shape how a story is told before the footage is shot
• Incorporate and synthesise feedback from multiple stakeholders efficiently, maintaining creative integrity and timeline discipline simultaneously
• Mentor and provide editorial direction to junior editors or production partners where required — set the standard and help others reach it

Production pipeline and process

• Manage multiple concurrent projects at varying stages of production, consistently meeting tight deadlines without trading quality for speed
• Stay current with platform trends, editing techniques, and emerging tools — including AI-assisted workflows where they serve the work — and bring relevant improvements into the team's practice
• Where needed, brief videographers, work with raw footage from lightweight shoots, or manage a shoot independently — the editorial ownership starts before the edit, not at it

What Success Looks Like

The markers below reflect where Manifest's video function is today. The pipeline will have moved by the time you join — new campaigns in production, new brand priorities set, new formats being tested. We'll calibrate the specifics once you're in the seat. These are directional, not fixed.

That said, the shape of success is clear.

You'll start by building a complete picture of the current video output across all four brands — what is being produced, at what quality, with what process, and where the biggest gaps between what exists and what should exist are. You'll have a point of view on where to raise the standard first.

From there, the quality of Manifest's video output will be visibly better. Not because more content is being produced, but because the content that is produced is more intentional, better crafted, and more clearly built for the audience it is reaching. Campaigns will look like they were made for the platform they live on. Brand films will feel like Manifest made them, not like a generic EdTech vendor did.

Over time, video will be one of Manifest's strongest brand assets — content that makes a counselor stop scrolling, that makes a university partner take the brand seriously, and that makes a student in Delhi or Dubai feel like the platform they are about to use was built with them in mind.

The specifics will be calibrated once you're in the role. The direction won't change.

What You Bring

You have eight or more years as a video editor in a marketing, media, agency, or in-house creative environment — long enough to have developed a genuine editorial voice, not just technical proficiency. You have owned post-production end to end, from brief to final delivery, without requiring close supervision. You have made the creative decisions, not just executed someone else's.

You are expert-level in Adobe Premiere Pro and strong in After Effects — motion graphics and animation are part of how you edit, not a separate skill you hand off. You understand post-production fundamentals deeply: editorial pacing, visual rhythm, sound design, colour grading. You know why a cut works and why it doesn't, and you can explain it to a non-video stakeholder in a way that is useful rather than technical.

You have a sharp instinct for audience. You know that a sixty-second performance ad for a student audience and a three-minute brand film for a university partner require completely different editorial sensibilities — different pacing, different tone, different everything — and you make those distinctions instinctively, not because a brief told you to.

You are a strong communicator. You can present and defend a creative decision to a marketing director who does not edit video, and you can take feedback that is not technically framed and translate it into a precise editorial change. You manage multiple concurrent projects without letting anything slip and without using deadline pressure as a reason to lower the quality bar.

A portfolio or showreel is mandatory. Applications without one will not be reviewed.

Most importantly, you read the description of what Manifest is building across four brands and your first reaction was not "this is a good editing role." It was "I want to be the person who decides how this looks on screen." That's the person this role is for.

Why Manifest

Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for global human capital mobility — connecting students, schools, universities, and employers across 50+ countries. Our portfolio spans Cialfo (AI-powered college counseling, 2,000+ schools), BridgeU (university guidance for international schools globally), Kaaiser (trusted study abroad counseling since 1997 across India and Southeast Asia), and Explore (AI-powered university outreach, 1,000+ university partners). Together, we move talent across borders at scale. $700B flows annually in remittances from migrant workers. 85M workers will be missing from developed economies by 2030. We're building the operating system that changes that. $80M raised. Still early.

For this role specifically, video is one of the primary ways that students, counselors, and university partners encounter Manifest's brands for the first time. The Senior Video Editor who shapes that first impression — across four brands, multiple markets, and dozens of formats — is doing work that reaches millions of people. The quality of that work determines whether they stop, watch, and engage, or keep scrolling. That is the scale of what this role connects to.

Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for global human capital mobility, operating across 50+ countries with $80M raised from Tiger Global, SIG, and Square Peg.