Role Introduction
Reports To: Creative Content Manager
Becoming a brand-led organisation is core to Cathay’s strategy, thus placing the Brand and Content Team at the heart of the company.
We ensure that we remain true to our brand – lighting it up at every opportunity; amplifying, enhancing and refining it across every customer and employee touchpoint. We therefore work on a diverse set of projects which will stimulate, challenge and reward any candidate deeply passionate about building a brand through art, design and storytelling.
Under our brand promise of Move Beyond, we believe in connecting our customers with meaningful experiences. As Cathay’s internal creative agency, we are the team behind differentiating content that brings our ethos to life. We ideate, create and produce customer and employee-facing content, namely photography, video, graphic design, art direction and copy; across disciplines of branding, customer experience, marketing, digital and product design.
We are looking for a talented creative video editor with a passion for travel, post-production and visual storytelling to join our team.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute and own the post-production process of compelling video content that captures our brand, customer experience, retail experience, destinations, aircraft, and people.
- Play a key role in post-production: Enhance all video output using post-production tools to ensure best-in-class video editing, sound design, audio selection and colour correction/grading.
- Support in pre-production: Work alongside video producers, designers, and writers to help deliver best-in-class production work to help set up post-production up for success.
- Support in the ideation of video ideas in response to creative briefs from across multiple business units.
- Edit a variety of content to fulfil creative briefs, ranging from high-end corporate films to creative clips for social media.
- Edit a variety of video formats and lengths o fulfil creative briefs: 16:9, 9:16, 4:5 1:1
- Ensure that work consistently adheres to our brand, video and photography guidelines
- Push brand boundaries with new and interesting editing and post-production techniques.
- Format, retouch, edit and enhance existing video projects as required.
- Responsible for making sure our content resonates with target audiences and markets.
- Offer continuous insight into industry best practices, digital trends, and content generation ideas.
Requirements
- Experience with industry-standard post-production tools and software, such as Adobe, Davinci, and Final Cut Pro.
- Have a keen eye for digital video trends: transitions, pre-sets, templates, concepts…etc.
- Have familiarity with using post-production tool kits, such as those found on Envato Elements, Artlist.io, or motion array: video templates, motion graphics templates, transitions, LUTs and effects.
- Have a portfolio of work that displays competency in editing skills across sequencing, retouching, colour correction, and sound design.
- Good time management skills – you will be expected to estimate and allocate your time efficiently across on-going projects and stick to mutually agreed schedules
- Strong organisation skills - you will be expected to manage your own resources and properly store files and project folders in a clear and understandable way.
- Presentation skills – you will be expected to present your work to colleagues and management with confidence
- Preferably have experience with motion graphics software, such as Adobe After Effects
- 3D motion graphics experience, such as with Cinema 4D, blender, or similar software, is a plus
- On-set production experience is a plus.
Personal & Application Information
Cathay Pacific is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our personal data policy and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within eight weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. All related information will be kept in our file for up to 24 months. A copy of our Personal Information Collection Statement will be provided upon request by contacting our Data Protection Officer.
