Senior Creative Video Editor

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Job Title Senior Creative Video Editor
Job Category Art / Animation
Job Description Frontier Developments are the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution, Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo. We are Britain’s biggest independent publisher and developer of videogames, based among the world-leading technology cluster in the historic city of Cambridge, England.

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Senior Creative Editor to join our growing Creative Services team. You will be working to help us create engaging video content across all of Frontier’s projects, including Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution. 

This role is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and get hands-on experience on projects both big and small, with a studio with a proven track record of delivering successful titles and play an important role in our continued success.

Key Responsibilities
  • You will take projects on and own them, from briefing, concepts through editing, motion graphics, animation, sound design etc.
  • Execute the creative vision and decision-making needed on projects by delivering effective editing and graphics solutions.
  • Creating engaging video content for all our current and future games.
  • Capturing in-game content for trailers and other video content.
  • Help continue to push the quality of the video content that Frontier produces.
  • Supporting other disciplines within the current Frontier Creative Services team.
  • Filming and producing community assets and assisting in live stream production.


About You
  • Are you an Editor, Video Artist or Motion Designer looking for a great job in an award-winning studio?
  • Are you passionate about video games?
  • Experienced in game capture and software (Nvidia Shadowplay, FRAPS)?
  • Have an outstanding portfolio and want to be somewhere it is appreciated and developed?
  • Have great technical skills and need a place that will allow you to progress and use them?
  • Are you a confident, responsive and creative individual, with excellent communication skills to bring fresh ideas to our team?
  • Do you want to learn and grow your career with Frontier?


Skills & Experience
  • Professional experience using Adobe Premiere and After Effects is essential. 3D software experience (3D animation, lighting and rendering), Photoshop and illustrator and key After Effects plug-in would be an added bonus!
  • Strong work ethic with high attention to detail and ability to provide a polished presentation.
  • Hands on editing, motion graphics skills.
  • Camera and live action filming experience.
  • Media admin and quality control.
  • Confidence to pick up and learn a range of software, technology and creative disciplines.
  • Degree or equivalent in related area i.e. Design, Art, Film, Animation etc.


What we can offer you
At Frontier we believe your work should be rewarding in every way. We offer the chance to work on blockbuster franchises and world-leading IP in a studio environment considered one of the best places to work in the UK.

We also offer a range of flexible benefits to our 550+ team, including life assurance, private family healthcare, pension, flexitime working hours, enhanced maternity/paternity package, in-house catering, support with relocation, a Cycle to Work scheme and free bike servicing, regular in-house wellbeing sessions, regular social events, and annual bonus and sharesave schemes for everyone to share in the studio’s success.

We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
Salary Competitive
Location Cambridge, UK & Europe
Job Category Art / Animation
Date posted 15/01/2021
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