About this role
Sportyard is a sports entertainment and training facility in Charleston built around competition, challenges, trick shots, games, and athletic experiences.
We're building a media brand around what happens inside Sportyard — and we're looking for a video editor who can turn raw footage into videos people actually want to watch.
This is not primarily a graphics or cinematic editing role. The goal is retention.
We want someone who understands how to find the hook, eliminate dead time, build tension, create curiosity, and deliver a satisfying payoff.
What Success Looks Like
Your job is to help us consistently publish videos that:
- Grab attention in the first 1–2 seconds.
- Give viewers an immediate reason to keep watching.
- Turn simple sports competitions and challenges into compelling stories.
- Maintain strong pacing without making every video feel over-edited.
- Build anticipation around the outcome or payoff.
- Generate shares, comments, followers, and repeat viewers — not simply views.
- Develop recognizable Sportyard content formats that can be repeated and scaled.
- Help identify which concepts and editing styles deserve to become recurring series.
Requirements
- What You'll Own
- You'll take raw footage from Sportyard shoots and turn it into finished content for:
- Instagram Reels / YouTube Shorts / TikTok
- Typically 15–60 seconds
- Challenges
- Trick shots
- Competitions
- Races
- Sports games
- Athlete/guest collaborations
- Behind-the-scenes moments when there's a compelling story
- YouTube
- Longer challenge and competition videos
- Multi-game competitions
- Approximately 3–8 minutes initially
- Story-driven edits rather than simple highlight reels
- You won't always receive a detailed shot-by-shot script.
- You'll be expected to watch the footage, understand what actually happened, and determine the strongest way to tell the story.
Editing Skills
- You should be comfortable with professional editing software such as Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or equivalent.
- Experience with the following is helpful:
- Vertical short-form editing
- YouTube editing
- Captions and motion graphics
- Sound design
- Music selection
- Color correction
- Multi-camera footage
- Sports or action content
- Fancy effects are a bonus.
- Storytelling instincts are more important.
Benefits
- Unlimited Sportyard membership
- Join a team that values preparation, accountability, and energy — not just showing up