Opportunity brief
About the Company
KaroStartup began in 2020 as a college Instagram page. Today it's a startup media platform with a 1M+ community and 100M+ cumulative views, built on telling real Indian business stories with real numbers. We publish across LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and podcasts, and we also produce content for founders and brands we work with.
Responsibilities
- Edit the podcast — full episodes, plus the clips and shorts cut out of each one. Multicam sync, clean audio, chapter pacing, and finding the moments in a 60-minute conversation that deserve their own reel.
- Edit reels and explainers shot in-house at the office — talking-head footage, screen recordings, on-camera founder pieces.
- Build with B-roll. Cutting to the right visual at the right moment is most of what makes our videos watchable.
- Own the first three seconds. Hooks, text-on-screen, pattern breaks. Retention is the metric that matters here.
- Subtitles, sound design, transitions, basic motion graphics — the finishing layer that separates a decent edit from a good one.
- Use AI video tools to speed up the boring parts — auto-cuts, transcription, silence removal, upscaling, voice cleanup, background removal.
- Maintain consistency. Our fonts, colours, caption style, and pacing should be recognisable across every video without anyone having to check.
- Look at the analytics. Where people drop off, which hook held, which edit style got saves. Then change the next edit accordingly.
- Occasionally help on shoots — basic camera, lighting and audio setup at the office.
Requirements
- Must have: Adobe Premiere Pro (strong, working command), CapCut (for fast reel and short-form turnaround), Proven ability to edit both long-form podcast and short-form reels (these are different crafts and we need both), Comfortable with AI-assisted editing tools and actively curious about new ones, Good sense of pacing, rhythm and music selection, Clean audio work (noise removal, levelling, mixing).
- Good to have: After Effects for motion graphics and animated text, Photoshop or Canva for thumbnails and covers, Basic colour grading, Camera, lighting and audio setup experience, Understanding of what performs on Instagram and YouTube specifically (they are not the same platform).