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NewsBreak

Mountain View

Short Drama Creative Editor Intern at NewsBreak

ON-SITE JUNIOR
Posted 11 days ago
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NewsBreak

NewsBreak provides the local community of Boardman, OR with timely news updates, weather forecasts, crime and safety reports, traffic information, and event notices, aiming to keep residents informed and connected to their surroundings.

Publishing Broadcasting Internet Information Technology & Services
HQ
Mountain View, California, United States
Team size
251-1K
Founded
2001
Funding raised
$151M
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Quick Summary

Role Overview

NDot AI is seeking a Short Drama Creative Editor Intern to support its growing mini-drama business in Mountain View or Beijing. This internship focuses on producing high-impact trailers and ad creatives for major social platforms while managing short-form video channels.

Key Responsibilities

  • Edit 15 to 60 second trailers and paid ad creatives with strong opening hooks
  • Perform quality control on partner creatives for technical specs and policy compliance
  • Create multiple creative variants to test different hooks and call to action styles
  • Manage short drama social media channels including TikTok and YouTube Shorts
  • Utilize AI tools for automated subtitling dubbing and translation tasks
  • Optimize video content based on performance metrics like click through rates

Requirements Snapshot

  • Current student or recent graduate in film media or design fields
  • Proficiency in Premiere Pro CapCut or DaVinci Resolve editing software
  • Strong understanding of vertical short form video hooks and pacing
  • Ability to analyze performance data to inform creative editing decisions
  • Professional English proficiency for managing subtitles and ad policies

Expected Impact

The intern will play a critical role in scaling the short drama business by ensuring all promotional content meets high quality and performance standards. By optimizing creatives for engagement and conversion, they will directly contribute to the growth of the platform viewership and user acquisition efficiency.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

About NewsBreak

Local life runs on local information. What happened down the street? Who can fix this? Where should we go tonight? NewsBreak started in 2015 to answer these questions, and today more than 40 million people a month rely on us to follow what’s going on in their zip code.

Three platforms with one vision: powering local life. Led by founder and CEO Jeff Zheng, NewsBreak is our local life and news platform; Nearby AI connects people with local businesses; and NDot AI helps publishers and creators grow and earn.

Building for the long term. A $115 million Series C made us a unicorn in 2021, and we keep investing in our people. We’re Great Place to Work® certified and named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025) and Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ (2026).

Everyone makes an impact. Whether you write code, shape products, tell our story, or run the business, we want people who own projects end to end, stay curious, and speak up. Join us.

Learn more at: NewsBreak, Nearby AI, NDot AI

About the Role

NDot AI is building a mini-drama (short drama) business. We're hiring two Short Drama Creative Editor Interns, one in the SF Bay Area and one in Beijing, to cut and QC the trailers and paid ad creatives that bring viewers to our dramas.

  • Type: Internship, 3–6 months, 24+ hours/week
  • Location: SF Bay Area (Mountain View) or Beijing
  • Reports to: Design Lead. Creative requests and scheduling come from the Performance Marketing Lead.

What You'll Do

  • Cut trailers and ad creatives. Edit short dramas into 15–60 second trailers and paid ads in 9:16, with a strong hook in the first 3 seconds. These run on Meta, TikTok and Google ads and in in-app recommendations. You'll mainly work on titles where the partner sent no creatives or the creatives didn't meet our standards.
  • QC partner creatives. This is your top daily priority. Partners are required to send ad creatives for their titles. You'll check each one for specs, subtitles, hook strength and ad-policy compliance on each platform, and make light edits when something doesn't pass.
  • Produce creative variants every week. Follow the performance marketing team's test plan to make variants in batches, testing different hooks, end-card CTAs and subtitle styles. Then improve them based on CTR and CPI results.
  • Run our short-drama channels on TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram. Cut highlight clips and recap/commentary videos, and keep a steady posting schedule.
  • Use AI tools to work faster. Use AI for auto-subtitling, dubbing, translation and smart editing, and build reusable creative templates.

What We're Looking For

  • Current student or recent graduate in film, media, design or a related field, with a short-form video editing portfolio. Please include a link to your work.
  • Skilled in at least one of Premiere Pro, CapCut (or Jianying), or DaVinci Resolve. After Effects or motion graphics skills are a plus.
  • You watch a lot of short dramas or vertical short-form video. You get hooks and beat-synced cuts, and you can explain why a specific ad makes people stop scrolling.
  • You're curious about data. You're happy to look at CTR and CPI and change a creative based on what you see, not just make it look good.
  • You can read and write English well enough to handle subtitles. Knowing ad policies on overseas social platforms is a plus.
  • Experience with AI tools for editing, subtitles or dubbing is a plus.
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