Short-Form Video Editor (After Effects) — AI, Instagram/TikTok

JOB TITLE: Short-Form Video Editor (After Effects) — AI, Instagram/TikTok
SALARY: $1,100 USD/month
TYPE: Full-time (40 hours/week)
LOCATION: Remote (Philippines)
SCHEDULE: Async, with Vancouver overlap (PST) for feedback

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THE MISSION

Prismiera is a luxury jewelry brand with a short-form video series already producing cinematic content on YouTube — mythology, history, goddess archetypes, and Dark Academia aesthetics.

We need someone to own the Instagram and TikTok side.

This is NOT repurposing YouTube content into different aspect ratios. This is building platform-native content that makes a woman feel powerful in under 20 seconds. You'll create original short-form edits and cinematic skits using AI-generated footage, voiceovers, and atmospheric visuals — designed from the ground up for how Instagram and TikTok audiences actually consume.

The other half of this role: you'll be working with our AI-generated personas who serve as the visual anchor across our short-form content. You'll generate, composite, integrate, and stylize AI character visuals into edits that feel striking and intentional, not gimmicky. If the idea of building a visual identity around an AI persona excites you, keep reading!

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THE STYLE

The content mix you'll produce:

65% VIBE & SCENARIO — The kind of reel a woman sends to her group chat with no caption because the vid speaks for itself.

25% CINEMATIC SKITS — High-end, visually stunning executions of viral formats and humor. The premise can be slightly unhinged or ironic, but the visuals never break brand/luxury canon.

10% SENSORY / EXPERIMENTAL — Layered, fast, loop-optimized. Visual overload with mythological texture. The algorithmic wildcard.

YES: Aspirational. Lethal elegance. Fashion-edit energy. Dark femininity. Music-driven impact. Content that feels like a luxury car reel meets ancient mythology. Cinematic skits using our AI personas — high-production value, deadpan, surreal, or darkly ironic.

NO: CapCut presets. Generic motivational quote reels. Low-effort vlog-style acting. Slapstick comedy. Anything that looks like it was made in Canva. Anything that cheapens a demi-luxury product.

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

Create & Adapt: Produce original Instagram/TikTok-native content using AI-generated visuals, trending audio, and our brand's mythology. Some pieces you'll build from scratch. Others you'll adapt from assets in our YouTube production pipeline. Either way, you're not resizing — you're crafting content shaped for how each platform rewards engagement.

Cinematic Skits: Build short-form skits around our AI personas that use trending formats, dark humor, or deadpan irony — executed at a visual level that never drops below luxury. People share it for the joke, follow the page for the aesthetic.

AI Persona Integration: Composite and stylize our AI-generated characters into edits as a visual anchor. She's not a narrator in your content — she's the presence. The face the eye locks onto while mythology and music layers move around her.

AI Content Generation: You won't just receive AI assets — you'll create them. Using tools like Seedance 2.0 and Seedream5, you'll generate goddess visuals, atmospheric environments, and character footage that feed directly into your edits. You're both the director and the editor.

Music-Sync Editing: Your cuts, transitions, and visual reveals are married to the beat. You understand rhythm as a storytelling tool. Swells, drops, silence, impact — all intentional.

Platform Instinct: You understand what Instagram rewards vs. what TikTok rewards. You know what gets saved on IG. You know what gets looped on TikTok. You design for those behaviors, not just for visual quality.

Instagram Packaging: Beyond the Reel itself — you contribute to grid cohesion, caption strategy, and Story sequencing. The profile should make someone think "I want to be part of this" within 2 seconds of landing.

Volume at Speed: Once your templates and aesthetic are locked, your turnaround per piece should be significantly faster than building from zero. We expect high output.

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CORE REQUIREMENTS

After Effects (Mandatory). Compositing, layering, motion graphics, light/shadow matching. This is your primary tool. You build visual experiences, not just cuts.

Premiere Pro. For project handoffs and consistency with the rest of the team.

AI Generation Fluency. You'll be using frontier AI tools daily — not just editing AI output, but generating it. You'll learn to prompt, iterate, select, and refine AI-generated visuals as a core part of your production workflow. We provide paid accounts for all tools (Seedance 2.0, Seedream, and whatever launches next). What we need is someone who treats these tools as creative instruments, not novelties.

The Aesthetic Eye. You instinctively know the difference between aspirational and try-hard. Between elegant and overproduced. Between powerful and loud. Your edits make people feel something before they consciously understand what they're looking at.

Music & Rhythm. You've made edits where the music drives the visuals — AMVs, fashion reels, phonk edits, fan edits, whatever. You understand pacing as a weapon. You know what "the drop" means and you know when NOT to use it.

Loop Thinking. You design edits that reward rewatching. The cut that lands on beat, the detail you only catch the second time, the seamless loop point. You think in circles, not lines.

Strong English. Daily async communication — clear, direct, professional.

Reliable & Coachable. You hit deadlines or warn early. You take direct feedback and iterate fast. You flag problems with options, not excuses.

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BONUS SKILLS (Not Required, But We'll Notice)

- Color grading — pushing AI output and mixed footage into a consistent luxury palette
- Typography sense — text overlays that feel intentional and premium
- Sound design — SFX layering beyond just music (risers, hits, atmospheric texture)
- Carousel / static design for Instagram companion posts
- Understanding of Instagram analytics — saves, shares, completion rates, and what drives them
- Experience building visual identities for brands or personas on social media

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WEEKLY OUTPUT

Ramp-up (first 2–3 weeks): 3–5 pieces as you learn the brand aesthetic, lock your AE templates, learn the AI generation tools, and calibrate with the team.

Steady state: 10–15 pieces per week across Instagram and TikTok — a mix of original productions and asset-based adaptations depending on the content calendar.

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HOW THIS ROLE FITS

Other editors handle cinematic YouTube production and visual effects — you own social media. Same mythology, same brand, different platform behavior. Each editor has a distinct lane, and yours is how Prismiera looks and feels on Instagram and TikTok.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

RAM: 16GB minimum (32GB preferred) + SSD
Reliable high-speed internet (upload speed matters)
Must run After Effects, Premiere Pro, and browser-based AI tools simultaneously

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PAID TRIAL (Shortlisted Candidates)

Before any full-time commitment, we run a weekly paid trial. We provide real assets from our production pipeline, style references, and the AI persona visuals. You deliver content. Trial is compensated at $250 USD at the end of each week. If it's a mutual fit after 30 days, we transition to regular bi-weekly payments.

This protects both sides — you see whether the work fits your strengths, we see whether the output fits our brand.

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WHAT WE OFFER

- Paid accounts for all frontier AI tools — Seedance 2.0, Seedream, and whatever launches next
- Creative ownership — you're defining how a luxury brand looks and feels on Instagram and TikTok from day one
- An AI persona to build around — not a hypothetical, an active visual identity you'll shape and evolve
- A role that evolves as the tools evolve — this job will look different in six months, and that's the point
- Clear briefs — asset libraries, mood references, and specific direction for every batch
- Direct feedback — specific, constructive notes on every edit
- A brand worth building — Prismiera launches soon. A second AI-native brand is incubating behind it. You're not joining a finished machine. You're helping build one.

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COMPENSATION

$1,100 USD/month. Paid trial at $250 USD/week, transitioning to bi-weekly payments of $550 after 30 days.

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OWNERSHIP & CONFIDENTIALITY

All outputs (edits, project files, prompts, generated assets, persona visuals) are Prismiera property and must remain confidential.

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HOW TO APPLY

Do not send a generic cover letter.
Use 7 apply points or more when applying.

Subject line: PRISMIERA SOCIAL — [Your favorite anime]

Send the following (in this order):

1. The Vibe Test. Link to ONE edit you've made that is aspirational, aesthetic, or fashion-adjacent, or a skit that demonstrates platform-native virality instinct. Format doesn't matter. The feeling and execution does.

2. The Rhythm Test. Link to ONE edit where the music drives the visuals. Show us your beat-sync instinct. (Can overlap with #1 if one video demonstrates both.)

Portfolio link (optional). If you have a reel, channel, or portfolio beyond the two links above, drop it here.

3. The Creative Instinct Test (3–5 sentences total). You're given a 45-second cinematic video about a queen who poisoned her entire court, a folder of our AI Goddess visuals, and a dark atmospheric beat. Pitch two reworks: (A) a 15-second Instagram Reel designed to get saved — tell us your audio choice, pacing, and what the first 2 seconds look like; and (B) a 15-second cinematic skit that uses dark or deadpan humor without losing the luxury feel.

4. AI Experience (1–2 sentences). What is your experience level with generative AI tools? If none, say so — we'll evaluate the rest on its own merits.

5. Hardware. Your PC specs: CPU / GPU / RAM. Plus your internet upload speed.

6. Turnaround Estimate. Given existing footage, a music track, and an established AE template — how long would a 15–20 second piece take you?

7. The Rewrite. Rewrite this sentence to sound dark, powerful, and aspirational: "She is really cool and strong and she wins."