Lead Editor

Zenni Optical, the world's leading online eyewear retailer, pioneered the industry in 2003 with a mission to make prescription eyewear affordable and accessible to everyone. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Zenni offers adults and children the freedom to express their personal style through high-quality prescription and protective eyewear curated with a sense for fashion and an incredible selection. With over 55 million frames sold worldwide, the company has brought massive price disruption to the traditional retail model. Zenni is proud to be the Official Eyewear of the San Francisco 49ers, Boston Celtics, Columbus Crew and the Chicago Bulls. Zenni has worked with designers and tastemakers on curations and collections, including Keke Palmer, Iris Apfel, Cynthia Rowley, David Ortiz and George and Claire Kittle. Zenni VR Prescription Lenses for Meta Quest 3 launched across the U.S., Canada, UK and Japan in October 2023. 

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About the Role

Zenni is looking for a proven creative leader and someone who understands the current digital social media video landscape for brands. You will lead our new direct-to-consumer video editing team and help build it from the ground up. We move in a fast-paced environment to prove the success of our video content through data and be adaptable to reach our target audiences. You will also work with our creative, brand, and social teams to ensure brand alignment with our content. For this position, it’s important to know about emerging digital content creation trends and tools (like CapCut and native phone editors) as it is traditional tools like Adobe’s creative suite.

Reporting to the Director, Influencer and Direct-to-Consumer Marketing, this is a contract-to-hire, hybrid position that requires 2-3 days per week in our studio in the Arts District.

Requirements

• Manage a growing team of editors as part of a high-volume digital video production team
• Develop a templated process for social media video that’s high quality and easily repeatable
• Both plan and execute video projects from capture through edit
• Attend meetings with social media, brand, and creative teams to foster a collaborative work environment and ensure brand alignment
• Create video production templates for external influencers to use in the development of their content
• Ensure the team has a healthy process for feedback and critique that is supportive and constructive
• Integrate interactive and shoppable elements into video content
• Review data on published videos to alter content over time based on results

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience leading creative development and editing for digital video content
• 3+ years of management experience
• Proficiency with Adobe’s creative tools
• Experience with CapCut a major plus
• Experience with cameras and capturing video a major plus
• Strong creative background (experience working in multiple steps of the creative process such as cinematography, producing, and motion graphics a major plus)
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Passion for social media/digital content creation
• Relevant portfolio/reel of recent projects
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and work under deadlines