Short-Form Video Creator
handshake ai fellowshipNew York (NY)
Short-Form Video Creator
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handshake ai fellowshipNew York (NY)
SENIORITY
Junior
About the role
Opportunity Overview
Handshake is looking for social media video creators and editors to support AI research through flexible, part-time contract work. This is not a traditional job. You’ll draw on your experience creating and editing short-form vertical video, including cuts, on-screen text, pacing, and talking to camera, to contribute original footage that helps AI better understand how real creators film and edit content for platforms. The Handshake AI program runs year-round, with project opportunities opening periodically across different areas of expertise.
This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside your current content creation and other work.
What You’ll Do: Contribute raw video clips from your own original content for use in AI training
Share how you edit your content, including cuts, on-screen text, and pacing, when asked
Follow project guidelines on the types of content and clips needed
Work remotely and complete tasks at your own pace, with no set schedule or minimum hour requirement
Qualifications:
Posting frequency: Posts original vertical video at least 3 times a week (not reposts, compilations, or trending-sound clips)
Editing skills: Edits your own content, with visible cuts, on-screen text, and deliberate pacing in your Reels
Footage quality: Well-lit, steady footage with clear audio, and comfortable talking to camera
Data sharing: Willing to share raw clips for AI training, and everyone who appears on camera must be an adult who has agreed to appear
Additional Qualifications (not Required, But Strengthen Your Application)
A following of roughly 10,000 to 100,000, with engagement of about 2 to 3% or higher
Content in niches that suit editing, such as cooking, DIY and how-to, product demos, pets, fitness, daily routines, or hobbies
This may not be a fit if
Your account features children, such as family channels
Your content is mostly reposted, clipped, or copyrighted material, such as TV, music, or celebrity clips
Your account is faceless, a slideshow, or AI-generated
Your content is gameplay or screen recordings only
Required For All Applicants
Participants must be 18+ years old
Must have US work authorization
Strong attention to detail and ability to follow written project guidelines
Rights to the footage you share, with consent from every person who appears on camera
Ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment
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