Finishing Editor, Scout Studios

The role

The Finishing Editor will own the finishing stage of visual work across video and photo. This role involves color grading, conforming, and ensuring polished final assets for episodic films, campaigns, and social content.

What you will do

• Own color grading and visual finishing across premium video content
• Develop a consistent visual language across film and content
• Collaborate with creative teams to establish capture, color, and finishing approaches
• Conform projects from editorial and prepare timelines for final finishing
• Perform color correction, creative grading, shot matching, cleanup, stabilization, and reframing
• Handle or coordinate final sound design, mix, graphics, VFX, and finishing requirements
• Perform beauty work, cleanup, compositing, and visual retouching
• Support photographic color, retouching, and finishing needs
• Build and maintain color-management workflows, LUTs, and finishing pipelines
• Master projects for various platforms including YouTube, social, broadcast, and web

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional color, finishing, post-production, or editorial experience
• Strong portfolio demonstrating sophisticated color grading and finishing work
• Expert knowledge of DaVinci Resolve and modern color-management workflows
• Understanding of professional cinema-camera workflows, codecs, RAW formats, log workflows, and color science
• Experience conforming projects from major NLEs
• Working proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro and the broader Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem
• Strong editorial instincts and the ability to independently edit select projects
• Understanding of sound design, mixing, graphics, VFX, mastering, and delivery workflows
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong file-management and organizational habits
• Ability to move between premium long-form work and fast-turn content
• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent

Nice to have

• Experience finishing automotive, outdoor, lifestyle, documentary, fashion, or premium commercial work
• Experience working with ARRI, RED, Sony Cinema Line, and other professional cinema systems
• Photography retouching experience
• After Effects, Flame, Fusion, or comparable compositing/VFX experience
• Sound-design or audio-post experience
• Experience developing LUTs and show looks with cinematographers
• Understanding of HDR finishing and emerging display standards
• Experience helping establish an internal post-production or finishing pipeline

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting
• 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO
• 14 company or floating holidays annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave

Before you apply

• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older
• This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City
• Valid driver's license required

About the company

Scout Motors is carrying forward the heritage of an iconic American vehicle brand by electrifying and digitizing it. The company empowers inclusive and entrepreneurial teams to innovate and shape the future of transportation.