Freelance YouTube Video Editor (Contract, Remote)

About Lifelong Mobility

Lifelong Mobility is the online coaching arm of one of the UK's largest healthy-ageing brands: 1.8 million-plus people follow our founder's physiotherapy content, and thousands of members over 50 trust us to help them stay strong and independent for life. We're small, profitable and growing, so there's a steady flow of work for editors who deliver.

Our online program helps older adults regain their strength and mobility so they can keep doing the things they enjoy. If you're exceptional at what you do and align with our core values, we want to hear from you.

Role

We're building a small bench of freelance editors to work alongside our lead editor. Our founder films; you turn that footage into finished videos to our editing spec, on deadline. Work is briefed and paid per video.

Depending on your strengths, that means member training videos for our online programme, clips and mid-length videos cut from our weekly YouTube lives, and, for editors who pass our long-form test, videos for our main channel.

This is a freelance contract, not an employed position. You run your own business: you set your own hours, work on your own equipment, and you're free to work with other clients. What we ask for is quality, consistency and deadlines met.

The edit matters here. Every video you deliver moves the numbers we care about most: viewer retention, on-time delivery, and a publishing schedule that never slips.

This is NOT for someone who needs heavy hand-holding, misses deadlines, or takes feedback as a personal attack. It IS for someone who wants consistent work with a growing brand, moves fast, and has a deep desire to get better at their craft.

Responsibilities

• Edit videos end to end, from raw footage to upload-ready export, using our editing spec, brand pack and project templates.
• Edit member training videos for our online programme.
• Cut clips and mid-length videos from our YouTube live footage, using our AI-assisted workflow (transcript-driven cutting, automated clipping).
• Edit long-form videos for our main YouTube channel, for editors who pass our long-form test.
• Apply our style guide and feedback consistently, aiming for no more than one round of revisions per video.
• Deliver to the deadline agreed in each brief, and flag problems early, before they become late deliveries.
• Bring ideas on hooks, pacing and retention when you spot something that could perform better.

Requirements

• You're a genuine YouTube nerd. You watch it constantly, study how top creators edit, and have opinions on hooks, pacing, retention and packaging. This is non-negotiable.
• 1–3+ years of editing experience, including long-form YouTube or educational content you've edited end to end.
• Confident in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve (tell us which), with solid audio clean-up skills, your own licence and a machine that handles 4K footage.
• Strong sense of pacing for talking-head, demonstration and educational content.
• A portfolio with at least two long-form edits you owned from raw footage to final export, plus some short-form work.
• You can name the channels whose editing you study, and explain what makes them work.
• Reliable and organised: you hit agreed deadlines, keep project files tidy, and communicate clearly in writing.
• A fast, reliable internet connection for moving large files.
• Comfortable with, and genuinely interested in, AI-assisted editing workflows.
• Coachable and growth-minded: you apply feedback once and it sticks.
• Comfortable working on a brand for adults aged 50+, with a respectful, non-patronising tone.

Results

You'll be measured on:

• At least 95% of videos delivered by the agreed deadline.
• An average of no more than one revision round per video.
• Edits that pass our quality checklist on first submission.
• Viewer retention on your edits at or above our channel benchmark.
• Our founder can film and walk away, confident the edit will be handled.

Editors who consistently hit these standards get first call on new briefs and more volume over time.

Schedule

• Freelance contract, paid per video.
• No fixed hours or set working days. You manage your own time around the deadlines agreed in each brief.
• Some overlap with UK working hours (GMT/BST) for feedback.

Location

Fully remote. Open to editors in the UK and internationally.

Compensation

Paid per completed video, with rates agreed for each type of edit (member training videos, clips and mid-length videos, main-channel long-form).

Tell us your usual rate when you apply. You invoice us; we pay promptly.

Why Work With Us?

• Regular, consistent work with a profitable, growing brand, not one-off gigs.
• Clear briefs, a written editing spec, a brand pack and project templates, so you never have to guess what good looks like.
• Direct, fast feedback from the founder and our lead editor, not three layers removed.
• Paid at every stage that involves real work, from the test edit onwards.
• Work that matters. Most editing work doesn't visibly change lives. This does, every single week.