Video Editor - CodeYogi Foundation

Location: Dehradun (in-office)

Type: Full-time

Experience Level: 2-5 years

Compensation: ₹3-7 LPA (based on experience and a demonstrated reel)

About CodeYogi Foundation

CodeYogi Foundation is democratizing access to technology careers for millions of underserved students across India. We're building a mobile-first coding education platform with an AI tutor that works on any smartphone - because 90% of students in tier-2/3 cities only have phones, not laptops.

Our mission is to enable students from rural areas, government schools, and low-income families to learn programming, build real projects, and access high-quality tech careers - regardless of their economic background or location.

We're a Section 8 company (non-profit) driven by impact, not profit. Every decision we make is guided by one question: "Does this serve our students better?

But here's the challenge: Our story isn't being told.

We have incredible student impact, a unique approach, and a powerful mission. What we need is someone who can translate this mission into words that move people - students who need us, funders who can support us, partners who can amplify us, and team members who want to join us.

The Role

We're looking for a Video Editor to own the editing that ships:

Short-form social — Reels, YouTube Shorts, WhatsApp clips (the bulk of weekly output)

Long-form educational content — course/lesson videos, alumni-story films, classroom B-roll cut for the platform and YouTube

Donor-facing impact films — 2-3 minute pieces a funder will watch end-to-end

This is a craft-and-execution role on a lean 17-person team, reporting directly to the founder. You'll edit a lot, occasionally self-shoot, and partner with the content/communications team on briefs. You'll be our first dedicated video editor — so you'll build the project templates, the caption styles, the footage library, and the publishing rhythm from scratch.

This is not a creative-director or strategy role, and it's not a one-format role. It's for an editor who is genuinely range-y — sharp on short-form hooks and patient with long-form storytelling — and who wants their cuts to bring coding education to students who'd otherwise be left out.

What You'll Do

Short-form Social (45% of time)

• Cut Reels, YouTube Shorts, and WhatsApp clips on a weekly cadence
• Open with a hook that lands audio-off in the first 2 seconds
• Caption every cut for the phone-first, sound-off viewer
• Adapt the same source footage across 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 where useful

Long-form Educational & Impact (40% of time)

• Cut course/lesson videos for retention on a small screen
• Edit alumni and student-story films with dignity, consent, and accuracy
• Cut 2-3 minute donor/impact films from raw interviews and B-roll
• Maintain English and Hindi subtitle quality across long-form

Library, Templates & Collaboration (15% of time)

• Build and maintain project templates, caption styles, lower-thirds, and intro/outros
• Tag and organise a growing footage bank for reuse
• Interview students/ops/teachers on shoots where needed; self-shoot on phone/DSLR when the situation calls for it
• Share rough cuts early; iterate on founder/content notes

What Success Looks Like in 6 Months

• A weekly Reels/Shorts cadence the audience recognises by style
• A reusable project-template and caption system the next editor could plug into
• Course/lesson videos cut for phone-first retention with clean Hindi+English subtitles
• At least one strong donor/impact film shipped
• A growing, organised footage bank with student consent on file
• The founder reviewing finished cuts instead of directing every edit decision

Must-Have Skills & Experience

1. Video Editing Craft — Short-form + Long-form (2-5 years)

• Strong pacing instincts; clean cuts; motivated transitions
• Caption work that reads on a phone (size, placement, line breaks)
• Basic colour and sound that doesn't fight the content
• Fluency in a modern NLE — Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, or CapCut Pro
• Comfortable across vertical (9:16), square (1:1), and horizontal (16:9)

2. Story & Audience Sense (2-5 years)

• Can take the same raw footage and cut it three different ways for three different viewers (Reels viewer, learner, donor)
• Picks the right student/story for the audience and knows what to leave out
• Centres student agency, not the org's act of helping — no poverty porn

Reel requirement: You must submit a reel or 2-3 work samples that you cut yourself (a Reel, a long-form story piece, and ideally a donor/impact-style cut). Team work where you can't point to your specific edit doesn't count. We can't evaluate an editing hire without seeing your edits.

Nice-to-Have

• Motion graphics — basic After Effects (titles, callouts, simple animation/tracking)
• Hindi subtitle proficiency — comfortable producing and QA-ing Hindi subtitles, including line-break and on-screen sizing rules
• Phone / DSLR shooting — can self-shoot a clean interview or B-roll when the team doesn't have a DOP
• Education / social-impact sector experience — non-profit, ed-tech, or development video work
• Sound design / light mixing — ducking, ambient beds, dialogue cleanup beyond drag-and-drop music
• AI-assisted editing fluency — uses tools (auto-caption, scene detect, denoise) with judgment, not blindly

Who You Are (Foundational Qualities)

We hire for character first, skills second. These 8 qualities are non-negotiable for everyone at CodeYogi:

• Mission Alignment — you cut for the student, not the showreel
• Ownership — you build the templates, the system, and the cadence from scratch; done means exported, uploaded, captioned, and confirmed
• Resourcefulness — you make strong video from imperfect source
• Empathy — you adapt the cut for Reels, learner, and donor; you treat students on screen as people, not subjects
• Integrity (NON-NEGOTIABLE) — no misleading composites, no captioned lines that weren't said, no consent shortcuts
• Communication & Collaboration — you share rough cuts early; you take notes well
• Adaptability — short-form, long-form, donor cut — you switch without quality collapsing
• Excellence — bad audio is a dealbreaker and you know it; a misspelled name on screen or a blown-out mix is on you, not something someone else cleans up

To be clear: you must demonstrate strength in ALL 8 to receive an offer. We don't compromise on culture fit.

What We Offer

• Impact — every Reel you cut, every film you finish, brings more students to coding and more funders to the mission.
• Ownership — you'll build the video-editing function from scratch and own it.
• Proximity — work directly with the founder on a 17-person team, close to the real impact and the real students.
• Growth — as we scale toward 50 lakh students, the video function grows with the mission.
• Mission-driven team — people here are building something that matters, not padding a reel.

What We're NOT Looking For

• Pure short-form editor — fast Reels but no patience for a 3-minute story arc
• Pure long-form editor — beautiful documentaries but freezes on a 30-second hook
• Wedding/event editor with no narrative range — clean cuts to music, no story instinct
• Polish-only editor — uncomfortable with imperfect source; a shaky phone video of a student's breakthrough is often our most powerful raw material
• Strategy-only / "creative director" candidate — wants to brief but not edit
• Single-format editor — only one ratio, one platform, or one style
• Embellisher — believes misleading cutaways or composites are "just video"

Equal Opportunity

CodeYogi Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment. We especially encourage applications from people who have personally experienced the barriers our students face — that lived experience helps you film and edit their stories with authenticity and dignity.

A Note on Storytelling with Integrity

We tell stories about students from underserved communities who face real barriers. We're looking for an editor who tells those stories with dignity, consent, and accuracy — celebrating student agency and resilience, never exploiting hardship for emotional effect, never composing shots or captions that imply something that didn't happen.

How you treat a shaky phone video of a student talking about her life tells us everything about your judgment. We're not looking for someone who makes poverty look cinematic. We're looking for someone who makes people look human.

If you believe video can be both moving and honest, we'd love to work with you.

Work Commitment

Role: Full-time, 10 AM – 7 PM

Working days: Monday to Friday

How to Apply

Fill out the application form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkpKPRNlqcIX6M2v5K4wVxU5kkDoURarkIy9_86_o2r31PkQ/viewform?usp=dialog

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further rounds.

Contact Us

Email: hr@codeyogi.org

Website: www.codeyogi.org