Senior Video Editor II, Blizzard Video - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)

Team Name:

Blizzard Video

Job Title:

Senior Video Editor II, Blizzard Video - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)

Requisition ID:

R025279

Job Description:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented Senior Video Editor II for its Blizzard Video team. Blizzard Video is the video and post-production arm of the Story & Franchise Development team. We exist to engage, inform and activate the global Blizzard community through the creation of epic video content.

Blizzard Video needs a dedicated video editor to bolster our current editorial staff. This person must have strong professional editorial and visual storytelling experience, as well as outstanding communication skills. They must be highly organized and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment while handling multiple projects with tight deadlines.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

This is a 12-month temporary position.

What You Bring to the Table

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Provide creative video editorial for a wide range of projects across all of Blizzard’s IPs, working with a mix of game capture, motion graphics, music, and sound effects to create works that excite, inform, and still tell a story
• Must be able to operate with varying degrees of supervision. Take ownership when needed, while remaining flexible to collaboration and iteration, working with a team of dedicated game capture artists, a motion graphics artist and project directors
• Facilitate content reviews with stakeholders and implement director notes
• Ingest, organize and update footage; music and sound effects pulled from our library; locate archival assets necessary to support their assignment objectives
• Generate reviewable files and outputs for Sound, and work closely with the remote assistant editors to hand off master sequences for processing and delivery

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 12+ years’ professional editorial experience

Knowledge & Skills

• Deep knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro
• Strong ability to edit music to maximize impact
• Good sense of timing, pacing, and controlling story flow through editing as well as a demonstrable understanding of good composition, screen direction and the 180 line, continuity & eye trace
• Basic Color Correction skills
• Knowledge of current post-production industry-standard workflows and archival organization
• Familiarity with Blizzard’s game worlds and the stories told within them
• Demonstrated expertise working in short form media and visual storytelling (Social content, commercials, sizzle reels, trailers, shorts, etc.)

Key Attributes

• Highly self-motivated with excellent communication skills
• Able to work well under tight deadlines and quick project turnover
• Collaborate with Directors, Producers, Graphics and Capture team members as well as departments outside post-production (e.g. Sound, Game Teams, etc.)
• Able to troubleshoot and solve problems independently

Extra Points

• Previous trailer experience in the Gaming industry
• Familiarity with capturing game footage
• Compositing and 2D effects (Adobe After Effects)
• Animation/3D Title Creation/Storyboarding/or other related skill
• Familiarity advanced video compression techniques and associated software packages

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Demo reel or links to work samples

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, te