Video Editor

carwow is looking for a Video Editor to join our Editorial team in London working on a remote-first flexible working policy which means you’ll work from home for the majority of the week with 1-2 days max in the office (unless you’d like to be in the office more, in which case you are also welcome!)

About carwow

Let’s face it, car buying isn’t easy. That’s why at carwow, it’s our mission to make it better, with our vision of helping our customers to be the most informed and empowered car buyers in the world. Since carwow’s inception, we’ve already improved the car buying experience for hundreds of thousands of people, selling cars through our site with a total value of £10.3Bn.

We’re a highly driven (excuse the pun) scale-up with a team of circa 250 based in London, Munich and Madrid and are backed by some of Europe’s leading VCs & car manufacturer Daimler (Mercedes-Benz).

However, our aspirations don’t stop there. This year, we are quickly scaling across many areas of our business with huge plans for the future. So, if you always aim to WOW through everything you do (check out more info about our values here), we’d love you to join us on our journey.

About the role

Want to work for the most-watched car channel on YouTube in the WORLD?

Well, carwow is looking for a dynamic full-time Video Editor to join our industry-leading editorial team which produces all content for the carwow car comparison website and its associated social media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tik Tok.

The carwow YouTube channel does more than 65M views a month (that’s more than Top Gear’s YouTube channel BTW). And we have grown our subscriber base to over 5M in less than five years since our first review video went live. Oh, and all this has been achieved organically.

We’re not done yet though! We want to continue our phenomenal growth and have a strong stance as No.1 Youtube channel for car content over our rivals.

You’ll be instrumental in growing our Youtube channel, ensuring our videos are fun, engaging and shareable using tools like data from YouTube analytics to tailor your work to our audience and improve the watchability.

Are you the kind of person with the enthusiasm and willingness to learn, who wants to join us on this journey? If so, you’ll be given the opportunity to make the role your own with the freedom to do what’s necessary (well… within reason obvs) to help us achieve our ambitious targets. Be warned: you’ll have to spend quite a lot of time with a range of amazing cars producing awesome content on them.

If you’re up for the challenge, and don’t mind joining in filming the odd drag race or two or having to work from the back seats of a £500,000 Rolls-Royce, read on....

What you will be doing:

Create engaging content efficiently for the 6 video per week posting schedule on Youtube.

Help analyse content performance and assist in improving and developing our content across all platforms.

Research our competitors and keep up with video editing trends

Attend occasional (approx once per month) video shoots to assist the camera crew filming cars

About the team

You’ll be part of the carwow editorial team reporting into the Head of Video and working alongside our filmmakers and writers.

The editorial team’s purpose is to raise awareness of the benefits of carwow, provide unbiased advice to our users and ultimately help people buy the right car at the right price.

Our social media channels are flying, enjoying super high rates of reach and engagement week after week. Meanwhile, the editorial on the website is attracting record numbers of car buyers and is ranking high in Google, knocking established brands off the top spots.

Requirements

• Be able to demonstrate and have evidence of high standard engaging editing work, creating videos for clients.
• Be proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects on an Apple Mac
• Have experience of being effective in a fast paced, high energy environments
• Be able to work under time pressure and hit deadlines
• Be able to think creatively, coming up with new ideas for techniques and content
• An expertise or at least a genuine interest in cars
• A willingness to learn
• Have a love of social media, and the desire to push boundaries and test new & exciting content opportunities.
• A valid driving licence.

Nice to Haves:

• Understanding analytics of social platforms, including YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter
• Experience creating content for and publishing to Youtube.
• Experience in other Adobe applications such as Photoshop.
• Experience in making video content about cars, writing scripts or car based journalism.

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• Equity in the company (share options)
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve
• Financial: Private pension scheme, salary sacrifice benefits (i.e. cycle to work), Travel Loan
• Flexible working: For those that want to, you’ll be able to work from home for the majority of the week, with up to 1-2 days max in the office. You’ll be eligible for a ‘home office allowance’ of up to £500/€550 to help get set up with everything you need to succeed at home. We also have a new ‘work from anywhere for a month each year’ policy in place should you wish to use it.
• Office: When we are in the office, a dog-friendly office in Victoria, with free refreshments and a variety of breakout spaces (let Mat Watson take you for a spin around our office here).
• Health: Private medical health insurance, subsidised gym membership, free access to Sanctus mental-health coaching sessions
• Social: Company wide collaboration such as bi-weekly product demos, coffee with the exec sessions, culture club, social events (currently virtual).

With people from over 25 different nationalities already part of our team, at carwow we strongly believe a diverse and inclusive workforce creates a more innovative company with a broader perspective. We are committed to creating a team where anybody can thrive regardless of their background. Wherever you’re from, whatever you believe, all we ask is that you have drive and share our company values (you can view them here).