Content & Video Operator | AI-Native Founder Brand

Elite Careers Strategy (ECS) is a London-based private advisory helping ambitious candidates and families pursue highly selective careers in corporate law, investment banking, private equity and related fields.

We are building an AI-native content and distribution engine around our founder’s expertise, our client outcomes and our research into how selective institutions choose talent.

We are looking for a Content & Video Operator to own the execution layer of that engine.

This is not simply a video editing role.

It is not a traditional social media manager role either.

We want someone who can take raw founder recordings, calls, ideas and AI-generated content briefs and reliably turn them into excellent finished content across YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and other platforms.

The right person combines video editing ability, content judgement, strong taste, operational discipline and comfort working with AI.

What you will own

You will take content from raw material through to finished, publishable assets.

This will include:

* Editing founder-led long-form YouTube videos
* Turning longer recordings into high-quality short-form clips
* Identifying the strongest moments yourself rather than waiting for timestamps
* Cutting repetition, pauses and weak sections
* Improving pacing and retention while preserving the speaker’s meaning
* Creating clean captions, graphics, screenshots and B-roll where useful
* Preparing thumbnails and other supporting creative assets
* Repurposing one strong piece of source material across multiple platforms
* Formatting content correctly for YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and other channels
* Managing the content calendar and production pipeline
* Maintaining an organised library of raw footage, projects and finished assets
* Uploading and publishing approved content
* Tracking what has been produced, approved and published
* Spotting bottlenecks and fixing them before the founder needs to intervene
* Using AI and automation wherever they can improve speed, consistency or quality

The objective is simple:

The founder should create once. The system should turn that into many high-quality pieces of content without requiring the founder to manage the production process.

How we work

ECS is an AI-native company.

You will not be expected to sit alone thinking of every content idea from scratch.

Our AI systems can support research, topic identification, scripts, hooks, titles, written repurposing, content briefs, transcripts and quality control.

Your job is to be excellent at the parts where a capable human operator still creates substantial value:

taste, audiovisual craft, editorial judgement, execution and operational ownership.

You should naturally ask:

“How can AI or automation remove unnecessary manual work from this process?”

We do not want someone who uses AI to produce mediocre content faster.

We want someone who combines AI leverage with high standards.

Our content style

Our audience includes ambitious students and young professionals, but also parents, senior professionals, private bankers and other sophisticated audiences.

The ECS brand should feel:

Intelligent. Premium. Understated. Credible. Modern.

We do not want generic influencer editing.

That means avoiding:

* Constant unnecessary zooms
* Excessive animations
* Meme-style editing
* Random sound effects
* Cheap-looking templates
* Sensationalist clickbait
* Visual clutter
* Editing that competes with the underlying idea

Strong editing should make an intelligent person easier and more compelling to listen to.

The viewer should notice the quality of the content before they notice the editing.

What we are looking for

You may be a strong fit if you:

* Are already a very capable video editor
* Understand storytelling, pacing and viewer retention
* Can identify strong clips without being given timestamps
* Have good visual taste
* Understand premium business, educational or founder-led content
* Have excellent attention to detail
* Have strong written English
* Are highly organised
* Can manage multiple pieces of content through a production pipeline
* Take ownership rather than waiting for instructions
* Can receive direct feedback without becoming defensive
* Learn brand preferences quickly
* Are comfortable working independently
* Already use AI extensively or are excited to become extremely good at it

Experience editing founder, business, educational, podcast or professional-services content would be particularly useful.

What this role is NOT

We are not looking for someone who needs instructions such as:

“Cut 1:32 to 2:17.”

“Add captions here.”

“Please upload this tomorrow.”

“Can you remind me which videos haven’t been published?”

The operator should increasingly own those decisions.

We also do not need a traditional content strategist producing generic lists of social-media ideas. Much of our research, strategy and written-content generation can already be handled using AI.

We need someone who can turn intelligence into finished output and make sure the output actually ships.

What success looks like

A successful workflow might look like this:

Founder records 30 minutes of high-quality material.

Our AI system analyses it, identifies the strongest ideas and helps create the content direction.

You then:

* Produce the polished long-form video
* Identify and edit the strongest short-form clips
* Create the necessary visual assets
* Prepare platform-specific versions
* Coordinate the written assets produced alongside it
* Organise everything correctly
* Publish approved content
* Track the output
* Feed performance information back into the content system

The founder does not spend time choosing timestamps, resizing clips, chasing edits, organising folders, checking whether something was uploaded or explaining the same editing preference repeatedly.

That is what ownership means in this role.

Application process

Please do not send us a huge generic portfolio.

Instead, send us your three strongest examples of work most relevant to this role.

For each example, briefly explain:

1. What you personally did

Be precise about what was your work versus somebody else’s.

2. Why you made the editing decisions you made

We care about judgement, not simply software ability.

Then answer these four questions:

1. You receive a 30-minute recording from the founder discussing a topic within his expertise. How would you turn it into one strong YouTube video, several short-form clips and supporting content?

2. Which parts of that workflow would you use AI for, and which would you deliberately keep human?

3. What video editing, design, AI and publishing tools do you currently use?

4. Give us one example where you improved a content workflow rather than simply completing the task you were given.

Please start your application with:

ECS CONTENT

Applications that do not include this will not be considered.

Paid practical test

The strongest applicants will complete a paid practical test.

Candidates will receive the same ECS source material and brief.

We will assess:

* Editorial judgement
* Video quality
* Ability to identify the strongest content
* Pacing and retention
* Brand fit
* Attention to detail
* Appropriate use of AI
* Ability to follow a brief
* Turnaround time
* Overall judgement

We care much more about the quality of your actual work than an impressive CV.

Role structure

We expect to begin with a paid practical test and trial period, followed by an ongoing role for the right person.

Compensation will depend on experience, capability and the level of responsibility you can genuinely own.

There is meaningful room for the role to grow. Someone exceptional could ultimately take substantial ownership of ECS’s content production and distribution operation.

If you are an excellent editor who also thinks like an operator, we would like to hear from you.