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# Senior Video Editor-So Expensive at Business Insider

- **Company:** Business Insider
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://www.businessinsider.com/work-at-business-insider?gh_jid=6147732004

## Job description

Business Insider’s video team is seeking a senior videographer and editor to create original video content for our flagship series, So Expensive.

So Expensive explores the stories behind one of the most commonly asked questions: why is something so expensive? From individual products to over-consolidated industries and broader economic shifts, the team helps our audience understand an increasingly unaffordable world and the solutions that could lead to change.

## The Role & Team

So Expensive takes viewers inside the businesses, industries, and processes behind unusually costly products and services, combining strong reporting with engaging visual storytelling. As an editor on the team, you'll play an important role in bringing those stories to life.

The editor will be involved in several stages of the creation process: shooting as needed, sourcing footage, editing, and post-production. You’ll collaborate with producers to find the strongest narrative, sharpen scripts and story structure, and make thoughtful creative decisions about pacing, visuals, sound, and graphics. This person should have a talent for shaping stories into compelling YouTube videos with a strong narrative. We’re looking for someone eager to develop our style and expand our coverage.

This role is based in New York and has an in-office requirement of three days per week. This position is union-eligible.

The Ideal Candidate

- Has excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage deadlines, including delivering multiple documentary edits each quarter.
- Is proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite, including Premiere (After Effects is a plus).
- Has experience in documentary or journalistic video production.
- Has excellent storytelling judgment: Brings creative ideas that elevate narrative structure, increase viewer engagement, and strengthen the quality and impact of our journalism.
- Has excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Is firmly committed to accuracy, fairness, and journalistic standards.
- Has experience shooting with professional Canon and Sony cameras (this is a plus, but not required).
- Has a proven track record of digging for visual source material that will elevate a story.

## Key Responsibilities

- Edit So Expensive episodes from start to finish while consistently meeting tight production deadlines.
- Craft episodes for maximum impact and audience retention, making key decisions on pacing, music, and scene-building to keep viewers engaged.
- Help the So Expensive team maintain efficient, scalable editing workflows and best practices.
- Collaborate with producers, animators, and managers to deliver high-quality video journalism that succeeds on YouTube and other platforms.

Examples of the types of videos you might be editing include:

[Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKn-zJMIwY)

[The Real Reason Disney Is So Expensive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asc_TrJllyo)

[Why Concert Tickets Are So Expensive — And Who’s To Blame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1AVSZyFbY)

[Why Airport Food Is So Expensive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCDLykCk5I)

Salary & Benefits

- Salary range: $80,000-$90,000  (dependent on skills, experience, and competencies)
- Unlimited PTO, 10 paid holidays, and 16 weeks of parental leave
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Matched and vested 401k plan
- Access to resources for financial planning guidance, family planning services, mental health resources and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Additional benefits include commuter benefits, phone reimbursement, gym membership discounts, and more

Business Insider is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and, when making employment decisions, does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality or national origin, religion, disability, familial status, and military or veteran status. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented groups to apply.

Business Insider is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles – first articulated as [The Essentials](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why) by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II – remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. [Learn more about Axel Springer.](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/)

Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Business Insider.

## About Business Insider

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Business Insider is a leading global news brand that delivers award-winning journalism covering business, technology, and innovation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of Axel Springer SE)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA (with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman, and Henry Blodget

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital Media & News Publishing
- **Target customers**: B2C (next-generation leaders, digital generation, professionals interested in business, tech, and innovation)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To delight readers by connecting the digital generation with the news, ideas, technologies, and trends that are changing our world. The company’s journalism helps millions of readers get more out of their careers and lives.

## Products & Services
- **Business Insider**: The flagship brand covering business, technology, and innovation. Known for breaking stories on Facebook’s founding, demystifying the 2008 financial crisis, and profiling tech visionaries. Coined terms like “quiet quitting.”
- **Tech Insider**: A sub-brand reaching people who embrace innovation.
- **Insider**: A broader lifestyle-focused brand for those who believe life is an adventure.
- **Newsletters**: Including *Business Insider Today*, *Defense Flash*, and *Tech Memo*.
- **Audio Briefing**: An AI-powered audio feature delivering news.
- **Social & Video**: Extensive video team and distribution across YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private subsidiary). Axel Springer SE is a family-owned, multi-billion euro media company.
- **Key Metric**: Reaches over 90 million people each month globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is Axel Springer SE (a family-owned transatlantic media powerhouse headquartered in Berlin and New York). The company is the most read business news publication in the world.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded from a single blog (Silicon Alley Insider, 2007) to a global news organization with journalists from New York to Singapore. Launched Tech Insider, Business Insider UK, and the broader Insider brand. Won its first Pulitzer Prize. Continues to grow its footprint with offices in major cities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Award-winning journalism**: Won a Pulitzer Prize; stories have changed government policies, gotten executives fired, launched investigations, and reopened closed cases.
- **Massive reach**: Over 90 million monthly readers, making it the most read business news publication in the world.
- **Brand trust and authority**: A leading global news brand known for breaking major stories and setting the agenda in business and tech.
- **Part of a global powerhouse**: As a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, it leverages resources, reach, and stability of a major international media company.
- **Digital-native culture**: Founded in the digital age, with a strong focus on social distribution, platforms, video, and AI-powered features.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued innovation in digital storytelling**: Embracing AI (audio briefings), social distribution, and platform growth.
- **Global expansion**: Building out offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London, and Singapore.
- **Deepening coverage**: Maintaining a center of gravity in business, tech, and innovation while expanding into new areas.
- **Audience growth**: Reaching the next generation of leaders and the digital generation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast, informative, smart, and social. A fun-loving culture built for the digital age. Collaborative and dynamic environment.
- **Impact**: Employees have a huge impact, with work resonating with over 90 million people each month.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to creating a work environment that embraces difference and leverages diverse backgrounds. EEO employer.
- **Work-Life Balance**: Unlimited vacation policy; freedom to manage work and life without compromising either.
- **Benefits**: Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) plan; commuter benefits; gym membership discounts; parental leave; and more.
- **Activities & Events**: Basketball tournaments, volunteering in homeless shelters, Whisky Wednesdays, and other employee-led activities.
- **Locations**: HQ in Silicon Alley, NYC, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London, and elsewhere.
- **Management**: A leadership team that has worked together since 2008, focused on growth and staying ahead of industry changes.

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