Flight is a modern investment and media company, driven by a mission to foster a healthier, happier humanity. Our unique structure and platform combine investment in disruptive businesses with media content that amplifies our values and brand. We believe in the power of strong founders and innovative business models to drive positive change.
The DIT/Edit Assistant is responsible for managing data, organising rushes, setting up multicam sequences, creating first pass technical edits and ensuring smooth data workflows across original shows and brand partnerships. Reporting to central production leadership team and working closely with Producers and Video Editors to meet their needs, the DIT/Edit Assistant ensures smooth management of data from raw content into compressed, graded, and backed up rushes.
This role is ideal for candidates who are brand new to the industry and looking to learn the ropes in a fast paced production environment. A working knowledge of camera equipment, editing software, and some hands on experience through education or passion projects is required.
Responsibilities:
- Data Management: Organise, log, and manage all rushes and harddrives efficiently across shared storage systems GoogleDrive Desktop and EditShare
- Transcoding & Logging: Manage transcoding of rushes, ensuring that all media is properly prepared for editing and compressed in the correct way. Handle the logging of materials for seamless handovers to freelance editors.
- Technical Support: Provide troubleshooting for footage access, offering support to both in-house and freelance editors using our central storage servers.
- Sync and Multicam: Organise all rushes into synced multicam files for used by the wider editing team
- Colour grade: Apply an approved LUT/grade to all transcoded material, identify inconsistencies or errors in colour that need correction
- Technical Editing: Contribute to the editing process by creating first pass edits of original shows and branded content partnerships.
- System Maintenance and Template Enforcement: Maintain a good working knowledge of shared storage systems and ensure folder structures and ways of working are followed
Requirements:
- Data Management: Strong organisational skills in managing rushes, transcoding, and maintaining shared storage systems, ensuring all projects are logged and accessible.
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Adobe editing systems with the ability to troubleshoot issues quickly, reducing disruption to the post-production process.
- Teamwork & Support: Collaborate effectively with editors, providing technical and operational support, while ensuring smooth coordination between teams.
- Problem Solving & Adaptability: Ability to identify and resolve issues in the post-production workflow, adapting to different challenges while maintaining focus on deadlines and quality.
Values:
Our first principles and values for every person in our company no matter their tenure, experience or status, are the same.
You will be an endlessly ambitious, passionate professional. An emotionally intelligent, resilient leader and a trusted, empathetic co worker. A life-long student of your craft no matter whether it’s day 1 or day 1001. A brave, proactive experimentalist, obsessed with the 1% and marginal gains. An open, compelling, collaborative communicator, an attentive listener and friend.
Location:
- London - Shoreditch ~ we are an in-person-first culture and believe in fostering a vibrant and work environment centred around connection and community.
- Some roles will require global travel so flexibility in this aspect is important and your hiring manager will confirm this with you during the interview process
Process:
Screening Process - Our screening process is designed to assess candidates in a fair way. This gives you an opportunity to share your skill, experience and passion.
Phone Call with the Talent Team - You will share a call with our talent team who will answer any questions you have about the role, our business and any next steps.
1st Interview - This first stage will involve meeting your potential manager and team members.
Final Stage Interview - The final interview involves meeting a Senior Stakeholder in the business.
