YouTube Explainer Video Editor — EV Content (Freelance)

DIYguru teaches electric-vehicle engineering to tens of thousands of people, and YouTube is how most of them find us first. We are building out a channel of explainer videos — how a battery pack balances cells, what a BMS actually does, why an inverter switches the way it does, how fast charging works and what it costs a cell.

We are looking for freelance editors to cut those videos. You will be given a script, reference material, and access to our footage and technical illustration library. What we need from you is the edit: pacing that holds a general audience through a technical idea, motion graphics that explain rather than decorate, and the discipline to keep a ten-minute concept at six minutes.

This is explicitly open to editors based in Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia. We work across these markets and want the channel edited by people who understand the audiences in them, not only an Indian one. Work is per video, briefed in advance, with a defined fee agreed before you start.

You do not need an EV background. You do need to be genuinely interested in explaining things, because that is the whole job — a beautifully cut video that leaves the viewer no clearer is a failed one.

What you will do

• Edit YouTube explainer videos from supplied scripts, footage and reference material
• Build motion graphics and animated diagrams that carry the technical explanation
• Cut for retention — structure the opening, control pacing, remove anything that does not earn its place
• Produce vertical Shorts cutdowns from the same material
• Add captions and on-screen text, and prepare files for localisation
• Deliver to an agreed brief and deadline, with one structured revision round
• Keep project files organised and handed over cleanly

What we are looking for

• Two or more years editing professionally, with a showreel or channel we can watch
• Fluent in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut
• Demonstrable motion-graphics work — After Effects or equivalent, not just transitions
• A feel for YouTube specifically: retention, pacing, how an opening earns the next thirty seconds
• Comfortable with technical subject matter and willing to ask when something is unclear
• Based in Nigeria, Bangladesh or Indonesia, and able to invoice and receive international payment
• Reliable internet for transferring large media files

Nice to have

• Prior educational, science or engineering explainer work
• 3D capability — Blender or similar — for mechanical assemblies
• Sound design and audio repair
• Experience editing for a channel that actually grew, and the ability to say what worked
• Working knowledge of a local language for future localisation

What you get

• Per-video fee agreed before you start, paid on delivery
• A real brief, a script and a named point of contact — not a vague request
• Editor credit on published videos
• Repeat work — we are building an ongoing channel, not commissioning one-offs
• Free access to DIYguru's EV programmes if you want to understand the subject properly