Founding YouTube Video Editor & Shooter - Relocation Paid

Build a YouTube channel from zero with a founder who has something to say-

Lilly’s Fresh Pasta · Greater Boston, with shoot days at our two plants · Full-time, on site · $65,000–75,000 based on portfolio, plus benefits, a gear budget, relocation from anywhere in the country, and bonuses tied to channel milestones · Start October 2026

Why this job exists

Most of the pasta in this country is made by people who would not feed it to their own kids. Our founder has been saying that to one chef at a time for thirty years, and he is done saying it one at a time. Lilly’s is a family fresh-pasta company started in 1986 by an immigrant mother with eighty-nine dollars and a belief that what you put in your stomach is what you put out into the world. It is now on its way to a billion-dollar brand without cutting a single corner: a new plant, a million dollars of robots going in, and a founder who will stand in a wheat field and tell you what the label on America’s best-selling pasta actually means.

We are putting all of that on YouTube, every week, and we are hiring one person to shoot it and cut it. Not a videographer who takes orders. The first hire on a channel built from zero, with a founder who is loud, funny, occasionally profane, and completely real on camera, and with a playbook borrowed from the biggest creators on the platform.

What you will actually make

• Teaching videos, eight to fifteen minutes, scripted, teleprompter, cut with the plant, the kitchen, the farm and simple graphics over his voice: “I Read the Label on America’s #1 Pasta. Then I Drove to the Farm.” “How Food Distributors Really Make Money, and Why Your Product Gets Buried.”

• Decision episodes, filmed as they happen: the thirteen hours he spent refusing to ship a tray of ravioli with one chipped corner, the rug he leaves on the floor to see who picks it up, the customer he walked away from.

• Long conversations with millers, farmers, chefs and the occasional heavyweight, cut into a podcast and a dozen clips.

• Shorts, five to seven a week, each built to be extreme in some direction: his mother tasting the number-one frozen ravioli in America and giving her verdict in one line; the plant at five in the morning with no talking; the rants with a lesson underneath.

You will shoot run-and-gun documentary on two mirrorless bodies with wireless audio, run the teleprompter shoots, edit for retention (a first minute a stranger cannot leave, re-hooks at the dips, payoffs on purpose), build and own the B-roll library, and use the current AI tools for the things that would otherwise take a crew, never for the things that would cost trust.

Why you would live in Boston for this

Because in a big New York or LA shop you are one of forty editors on someone else’s channel. Here you are the founding hire on a channel with a real subject, a real budget, and a founder who will give you the room. You will be coached every week by a seasoned YouTube strategist who has helped build major creator channels, one on one, on your cuts. Your name goes on this. And you will be paid to grow with it: cash bonuses at 10,000, 50,000 and 100,000 subscribers, on top of salary.

And because Boston is not what you think. It is the most concentrated square mile of universities on earth, Harvard, MIT, BU and Northeastern within a subway ride, with extension classes you can actually take at night. It is a real city with a real food culture, the North End, the harbor, the fish. It is an hour from skiing and an hour from the Cape, four hours from New York when you miss it, and it has four seasons, which, if you have only ever lived in Los Angeles, turns out to be a feature. The cost of living is below New York, and we will pay to move you.

The perks, some of them serious

• Unlimited fresh pasta. We are not joking. Take it home.

• Lunch on the line and dinner at the family table more often than you would expect, with a mother who will judge your plate and tell you.

• A gear budget you help spec, an edit workstation built for the job, and a plant that is the set: freezers, robots, dough, steam, a loading dock at dawn.

• Health benefits, paid time off, and relocation help up to $5,000 if you are coming from outside New England.

• A seat at the table when the channel decides what to make next, from week one.

Who you are

• You have shot and cut for a YouTube channel that grew, and you can show the retention graphs you improved. Two to six years in, but the portfolio matters more than the years.

• You edit fast and you are obsessive about the first minute. You know what average view duration is, you have argued with someone about a thumbnail, and you are fine being told by the data that you were wrong.

• You notice when someone just said something incredible on camera, and you can write a hook. A little scripting instinct is worth more to us than a lot of gear.

• You are comfortable on a working factory floor, around a founder who says exactly what he thinks, and around his family.

• Premiere or Resolve, After Effects basics, good with audio, working fluency in at least one current AI video or image tool and the judgment to use it sparingly. You can lift a case.

This is a full-time, in-person job for someone who moves fast when a moment happens. Some days are shoots, some days are edits, and the week bends to whatever the story needs. If you are looking for a hybrid schedule, this is not it. If you are looking for the channel you will point to for the rest of your career, keep reading.

How we hire

Apply through our listing on YT Jobs (the link is the "Apply" button on this post). When you apply, include two things: (1) a link to a YouTube video you shot and edited yourself, with one sentence on what the first-minute retention did and what you changed about it; (2) a link to one Short you cut that stands on its own. No reel, no read — the portfolio is how we screen.

The ten strongest portfolios get a paid 48-hour edit test on real footage ($300): find the five videos hiding in six hours of our founder's day, cut one Short and a three-minute rough. That test is the interview. The best three meet the founder, on the plant floor. We decide within two weeks, and we'll tell you either way.