Video Editor & Visual Designer

About us

Online Taxman is a US tax firm built for people whose lives cross borders. We work with Americans living abroad and with international entrepreneurs doing business in the US, covering the compliance, planning, and advisory work that comes with an international life. Our team is fully remote and spread across several countries.

We are also an AI-driven firm. We use AI across our work, from how we research and prepare, to how we run internal processes, to how we produce content. Human expertise stays at the center of the advice we give clients, and technology is what lets a small team move at the pace we do. That applies to this role as much as to the tax side of the business.

Why this role exists

We publish long-form videos on YouTube, short-form vertical video on Instagram and LinkedIn, plus carousels, blog graphics, and newsletter visuals. You would own long and short-form video from raw footage to published cut, and you would build out the visual side of everything around it. We currently have no designer in the team, so much of what you make will be the first version of it. If you like having room to define how something looks, that is the opportunity here.

What you'll do

• Edit our long-form YouTube videos end to end: story structure, pacing, cutting down raw talking-head footage, b-roll, on-screen graphics, sound mixing, and export.

• Cut short-form vertical video from long-form footage: hook selection, pacing, captions, motion, sound design.

• Keep short-form consistent with the editing style already set for the channel, and suggest improvements where you see them.

• Design social assets: Instagram carousels, static graphics, LinkedIn visuals, YouTube thumbnails.

• Design visuals for our newsletter and blog: timelines, comparison graphics, and simple explainers that make a tax concept clear at a glance.

• Build and maintain the pieces that make output repeatable: templates, presets, caption styles, project files, and an organized asset library.

• Work from our monthly content plan with the content lead, so you know what is coming and can plan production instead of reacting to it.

• Use AI tools in your own workflow and keep testing new ones: transcription and rough cuts, caption generation, image and asset generation, upscaling, voice cleanup, and whatever comes next. We expect you to bring findings back to the team and to have a view on where these tools help and where they do not.

• Pay attention to what performs, on retention, watch time, and saves, and let that inform the next cut.

What we're looking for

• Two or more years editing video for brands or creators, with a portfolio we can watch.

• Strong command of an editing suite such as Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut. CapCut is fine where speed matters.

• Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop.

• Motion design in After Effects for numbers on screen, timelines, and explainer sequences.

• English strong enough to follow raw footage about US tax and pull the right moments out of it.

• Real comfort with AI tools in a creative workflow, plus the judgment to know when the output is not good enough to publish. We care more about how you decide what to keep than about how many tools you have tried.

Nice to have

• Experience with finance, legal, or another technical subject where accuracy matters.

• Working knowledge of how YouTube and Instagram distribution actually behaves.

• A track record with thumbnails.

How to apply

Send your portfolio to [email protected] along with:

• Three short-form videos you edited yourself, with one line on each explaining a choice you made and why.

• One design piece: a carousel, a thumbnail, or an explainer graphic.

• A sentence on what you would change about our current Instagram or YouTube presence.