Job Description

Description

As our Senior Video Editor here at Build A Rocket Boy, you will be responsible for the production of trailers, gameplay showcases, developer diaries, and promotional videos that inspire and excite players.

As a key member of the marketing team, you'll shape how our worlds, crossovers, and updates are introduced to the community through storytelling, visual precision, and high energy impact.

Working closely with creative leadership, marketing, publishing, and the capture team, you'll deliver high-quality content on a fast-paced release schedule, setting our benchmark for video excellence at Build A Rocket Boy.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and deliver video content from concept to final, contributing creative ideas, storyboards, and structure to support each campaign. Edit a wide range of content, including trailers, feature spotlights, developer diaries, teasers, and gameplay showcase's for all Build A Rocket Boy products and marketing beats. Maintain consistent high quality, using pacing, sound, and composition to deliver compelling and impactful results. Experiment with evolving workflows and technologies, including AI-enhanced editing, motion graphics automation, and real-time engine capture. Take feedback onboard constructively and adapt with creativity and confidence to refine and elevate each project. Manage multiple projects across simultaneous campaigns, ensuring consistency, quality, and timely delivery. Optimize videos for multiple platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Steam, etc.). Organize, catalogue, and manage footage and project files.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

3 years' experience creating video content for 3D video games. Expert-level proficiency in

Adobe Premiere Pro

,

After Effects

, and other industry-standard editing tools. Extensive experience capturing game content in engine, preferably

Unreal Engine 5.

Strong storytelling instincts and mastery of pacing, rhythm, energy, and tone. Proven ability to take projects from idea to finished product, including pitching concepts, storyboarding, editing, and final delivery. Knowledge of cinematic language and camera direction. Skilled in sound integration, including music, voiceover, and SFX to enhance emotional impact. Keen attention to detail with a proven ability to deliver exceptional quality under tight deadlines. Collaborative and self-driven, with a passion for games, innovation, and storytelling.

Job Benefits

Our Global Benefits & Perks

Unlimited coaching & therapy

-- with Oliva, to support your mental health

Stock Options

-- everyone owns a piece of our success

Pension scheme

-- up to 5% employer matched contribution to finance those golden years

Socials

--office & remote events, play sessions and company-wide parties

And even more benefits based on your location!

If you're based in the UK

25 Annual Leave + 8 bank holidays

- we're flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what's important to you

Private Medical Insuranc

e - full cover with AXA

Healthcare Cash Plan

- Level 3 cover with Medicash

Cycle2Work

Scheme

- lease a bike through us and save on tax too!

Electric Car Charging

- electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.

About Build A Rocket Boy

Build A Rocket Boy is an independent game developer, headquartered in Edinburgh Scotland, with operations in Budapest Hungary, the Netherlands, France, and California USA. Led by game developer Leslie Benzies, Build A Rocket Boy's team includes hundreds of the industry's brightest development talents with the shared vision to create new and innovative entertainment experiences. Build A Rocket Boy's first project is EVERYWHERE - a new multi-world game experience that blurs the line between reality and the digital world.