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Technical Editor roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in technical communication, English, or a related field. Publishers, software companies, and government contractors regularly file LCAs for these positions. The annual H-1B cap is 85,000 slots, with a separate 20,000 set aside for U.S. master's degree holders.
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Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network, built to deliver fast, reliable broadband to people and places beyond the reach of existing networks. From families and small businesses to schools, hospitals, and entire communities, we’re working to connect the world in ways that weren’t possible before. We just created a new brand. Now comes the fun part.
We’ve spent years building the technology and creating the Amazon Leo brand from the ground up. Now we’re bringing it to life. And we’ve got some incredible ingredients to work with: rockets launching into space, satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth, innovative technology, and, most importantly, the people and communities whose lives will change when they get connected. There’s no shortage of great stories to tell. We just need the right people to help us tell them.
We’re looking for a Social Video Editor who’s equal parts storyteller, craftsman, and creative problem solver. Someone who can find a great story in hours of raw footage, knows how to make people stop scrolling, and brings their own creative instincts to every project.
This is a dual role, split evenly between creating social-first video content and helping us build the Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems that power our creative team. You’ll work across consumer, business, and government audiences around the world, helping shape how Amazon Leo looks, feels, and tells stories. If you love great storytelling, obsess over the details, and get excited about building something new, we’d love to hear from you.
Key job responsibilities
- Create compelling, social-first video content for Amazon Leo, including influencer collaborations, branded content, product storytelling, behind-the-scenes videos, and short-form social campaigns.
- Edit and craft engaging stories through pacing, music, sound design, motion graphics, color correction, and creative finishing. Bring strong editorial instincts and attention to detail to every project.
- Bring the Amazon Leo brand to life through creative use of Aurora particles, Krypton Purple, typography, motion, and sound. Find fresh and unexpected ways to use these elements to tell stories that feel unmistakably Amazon Leo.
- Adapt creative content for different social platforms, audiences, and formats, balancing platform trends and best practices with a consistent brand identity.
- Collaborate with Creative Directors, Social, Marketing, and production partners to develop and execute engaging video content for consumer, business, and government audiences.
- Transform complex technology and technical subjects into accessible, entertaining stories. Find the human moments that make people care about what we’re building.
- Partner with Social and Marketing teams to understand content performance and identify opportunities to improve future creative work.
- Help develop, organize, and manage Amazon Leo’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, supporting a growing global library of video, photography, animation, audio, and finished creative assets.
- Maintain consistent media management practices, including metadata, tagging, naming conventions, folder structures, version control, and project archiving.
- Support efficient workflows for ingesting, organizing, reviewing, approving, distributing, and retrieving creative assets across internal teams and external production partners.
- Maintain accurate asset information, including usage rights, permissions, and licensing details, to support secure and appropriate content sharing.
- Identify opportunities to improve post-production and asset management workflows, including exploring AI-assisted creative tools, automation, and new technologies.
- Manage multiple editing and asset management projects simultaneously, balancing creative quality, organization, and deadlines.
- Make outrageously cool content.
A day in the life
Your morning starts with a fresh batch of footage from a creator who’s been putting Amazon Leo to the test. You’ve got hours of material, a few great moments, and an opportunity to tell a story that people actually want to watch. You jump into the edit, find the hook, experiment with music and pacing, and start turning raw footage into something worth sharing.
Next, you’re working with our creative and social teams on a new campaign. We’ve built an entirely new visual identity, and now we get to play with it. Aurora particles that bring connectivity to life. Krypton Purple, inspired by the technology powering our satellites. Golden Hour, capturing the warmth of the best moments in our customers’ lives. A distinct motion language, typography, and sonic identity. These aren’t just brand guidelines. They’re creative tools for finding new ways to tell stories.
Maybe you’re using Aurora particles to visualize a connection traveling across the world. Maybe you’re taking footage from a customer documentary and turning it into a compelling 30-second social story. Or maybe you’re working with an influencer to find a completely unexpected way to show what satellite internet makes possible. The challenge is to make it feel authentic, entertaining, and unmistakably Amazon Leo.
After lunch, you switch gears. Our library of footage, photography, animations, and finished content is growing fast. You’re helping build and manage our Digital Asset Management system, keeping everything organized, searchable, and ready for the next project. Because when you’re creating content around the world, finding the right shot shouldn’t take longer than editing it.
By the afternoon, you’re reviewing cuts with a Creative Director, collaborating with designers on a new animation, or experimenting with a social trend to see how it might work for our brand. We believe in cinematic storytelling, even when the finished video is only 15 seconds long. Sometimes the best story is a rocket launching into space. Sometimes it’s a quiet moment with someone getting connected for the first time. The trick is knowing which moments matter.
We’re building a brand that’s equal parts innovative technology and human connection. We want our work to feel thoughtful, surprising, and occasionally a little weird. We don’t want to make content just to fill a calendar. We want to make things people choose to watch.
And we want you to help us figure out what that looks like next.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Experience developing digital campaigns for O&O channels that have global scale
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Knowledge of Adobe Creative software, primarily Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop/Indesign at an advanced level
- Experience with high-volume, high-velocity, large-scale file management (workflow orchestration, file-movement, permission management, etc.)
- Have an online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design skills and advertising experience across a range of media and platforms, along with work that reflects your design process
- Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems, media libraries, or professional post-production asset management workflows.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in influencer, affiliate marketing
- Experience with asset management, design workflows, or partnering with creative teams
- Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences
- Experience with online content, multimedia, analytics and impact measurements
- Experience building workflow automation and scripting (Python, AppleScript, or similar) to streamline handoffs, eliminate repetitive editorial tasks, and accelerate project turnarounds
- Experience building custom shortcuts, macros, NLE extensions, or integration panels that enhance editing capabilities
- Experience designing and managing automated ingest, proxy generation, transcoding, and delivery pipelines to remove manual media management bottlenecks
- Experience developing, implementing, or improving Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems, including iconik, Bynder, Frame.io, Wiredrive, or similar platforms
LOCATION
USA, WA, BELLEVUE
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $141,000.00 - $190,700.00 USD annually
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network, built to deliver fast, reliable broadband to people and places beyond the reach of existing networks. From families and small businesses to schools, hospitals, and entire communities, we’re working to connect the world in ways that weren’t possible before. We just created a new brand. Now comes the fun part.
We’ve spent years building the technology and creating the Amazon Leo brand from the ground up. Now we’re bringing it to life. And we’ve got some incredible ingredients to work with: rockets launching into space, satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth, innovative technology, and, most importantly, the people and communities whose lives will change when they get connected. There’s no shortage of great stories to tell. We just need the right people to help us tell them.
We’re looking for a Social Video Editor who’s equal parts storyteller, craftsman, and creative problem solver. Someone who can find a great story in hours of raw footage, knows how to make people stop scrolling, and brings their own creative instincts to every project.
This is a dual role, split evenly between creating social-first video content and helping us build the Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems that power our creative team. You’ll work across consumer, business, and government audiences around the world, helping shape how Amazon Leo looks, feels, and tells stories. If you love great storytelling, obsess over the details, and get excited about building something new, we’d love to hear from you.
Key job responsibilities
- Create compelling, social-first video content for Amazon Leo, including influencer collaborations, branded content, product storytelling, behind-the-scenes videos, and short-form social campaigns.
- Edit and craft engaging stories through pacing, music, sound design, motion graphics, color correction, and creative finishing. Bring strong editorial instincts and attention to detail to every project.
- Bring the Amazon Leo brand to life through creative use of Aurora particles, Krypton Purple, typography, motion, and sound. Find fresh and unexpected ways to use these elements to tell stories that feel unmistakably Amazon Leo.
- Adapt creative content for different social platforms, audiences, and formats, balancing platform trends and best practices with a consistent brand identity.
- Collaborate with Creative Directors, Social, Marketing, and production partners to develop and execute engaging video content for consumer, business, and government audiences.
- Transform complex technology and technical subjects into accessible, entertaining stories. Find the human moments that make people care about what we’re building.
- Partner with Social and Marketing teams to understand content performance and identify opportunities to improve future creative work.
- Help develop, organize, and manage Amazon Leo’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, supporting a growing global library of video, photography, animation, audio, and finished creative assets.
- Maintain consistent media management practices, including metadata, tagging, naming conventions, folder structures, version control, and project archiving.
- Support efficient workflows for ingesting, organizing, reviewing, approving, distributing, and retrieving creative assets across internal teams and external production partners.
- Maintain accurate asset information, including usage rights, permissions, and licensing details, to support secure and appropriate content sharing.
- Identify opportunities to improve post-production and asset management workflows, including exploring AI-assisted creative tools, automation, and new technologies.
- Manage multiple editing and asset management projects simultaneously, balancing creative quality, organization, and deadlines.
- Make outrageously cool content.
A day in the life
Your morning starts with a fresh batch of footage from a creator who’s been putting Amazon Leo to the test. You’ve got hours of material, a few great moments, and an opportunity to tell a story that people actually want to watch. You jump into the edit, find the hook, experiment with music and pacing, and start turning raw footage into something worth sharing.
Next, you’re working with our creative and social teams on a new campaign. We’ve built an entirely new visual identity, and now we get to play with it. Aurora particles that bring connectivity to life. Krypton Purple, inspired by the technology powering our satellites. Golden Hour, capturing the warmth of the best moments in our customers’ lives. A distinct motion language, typography, and sonic identity. These aren’t just brand guidelines. They’re creative tools for finding new ways to tell stories.
Maybe you’re using Aurora particles to visualize a connection traveling across the world. Maybe you’re taking footage from a customer documentary and turning it into a compelling 30-second social story. Or maybe you’re working with an influencer to find a completely unexpected way to show what satellite internet makes possible. The challenge is to make it feel authentic, entertaining, and unmistakably Amazon Leo.
After lunch, you switch gears. Our library of footage, photography, animations, and finished content is growing fast. You’re helping build and manage our Digital Asset Management system, keeping everything organized, searchable, and ready for the next project. Because when you’re creating content around the world, finding the right shot shouldn’t take longer than editing it.
By the afternoon, you’re reviewing cuts with a Creative Director, collaborating with designers on a new animation, or experimenting with a social trend to see how it might work for our brand. We believe in cinematic storytelling, even when the finished video is only 15 seconds long. Sometimes the best story is a rocket launching into space. Sometimes it’s a quiet moment with someone getting connected for the first time. The trick is knowing which moments matter.
We’re building a brand that’s equal parts innovative technology and human connection. We want our work to feel thoughtful, surprising, and occasionally a little weird. We don’t want to make content just to fill a calendar. We want to make things people choose to watch.
And we want you to help us figure out what that looks like next.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Experience developing digital campaigns for O&O channels that have global scale
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Knowledge of Adobe Creative software, primarily Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop/Indesign at an advanced level
- Experience with high-volume, high-velocity, large-scale file management (workflow orchestration, file-movement, permission management, etc.)
- Have an online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design skills and advertising experience across a range of media and platforms, along with work that reflects your design process
- Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems, media libraries, or professional post-production asset management workflows.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in influencer, affiliate marketing
- Experience with asset management, design workflows, or partnering with creative teams
- Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences
- Experience with online content, multimedia, analytics and impact measurements
- Experience building workflow automation and scripting (Python, AppleScript, or similar) to streamline handoffs, eliminate repetitive editorial tasks, and accelerate project turnarounds
- Experience building custom shortcuts, macros, NLE extensions, or integration panels that enhance editing capabilities
- Experience designing and managing automated ingest, proxy generation, transcoding, and delivery pipelines to remove manual media management bottlenecks
- Experience developing, implementing, or improving Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems, including iconik, Bynder, Frame.io, Wiredrive, or similar platforms
LOCATION
USA, WA, BELLEVUE
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $141,000.00 - $190,700.00 USD annually
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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Frame your degree field precisely
USCIS scrutinizes Technical Editor petitions because the role spans multiple disciplines. Your degree in technical communication, English, or journalism strengthens the specialty occupation argument more than a general liberal arts credential. Highlight coursework directly tied to technical writing or editing.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Search the OFLC Wage Search for Technical Editor LCA certifications filtered by SOC code 27-3042. Employers with recent certifications have already navigated DOL's prevailing-wage process for this role, meaning fewer delays when your petition is filed.
Use Migrate Mate to surface verified sponsors
Filter by Technical Editor roles on Migrate Mate to see employers with confirmed H-1B filing history for this occupation. That history signals the employer understands the process and won't treat your sponsorship as an unfamiliar first attempt.
Clarify the specialty occupation case early
Ask your prospective employer whether their attorney has previously filed H-1B petitions for editors or technical writers. If not, prepare a portfolio demonstrating that your role requires specialized domain knowledge, such as API documentation, regulatory writing, or medical device manuals.
Verify the offered wage against the prevailing wage level
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for Technical Editors in that geographic area. Cross-check the offered salary against the OFLC Wage Search before signing an offer letter so the LCA won't need amendment after filing.
Prepare a portfolio that documents specialty knowledge
If USCIS issues a Request for Evidence on specialty occupation, your portfolio becomes the primary defense. Include samples requiring domain expertise, such as software API guides, ISO-compliant procedures, or FDA submission documents, to demonstrate the role demands more than general writing skill.
H-1B Visa Technical Editor: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technical Editor role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer can show the position normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field like technical communication, English, or a discipline matching the subject matter being edited. Generic writing roles with no specific degree requirement can draw USCIS scrutiny, so job descriptions should specify the required field of study rather than accepting any bachelor's degree.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Editor positions?
Software companies, defense contractors, medical device manufacturers, and government-facing consulting firms are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for Technical Editor roles because their documentation requires specialized domain knowledge that supports the specialty occupation argument. Browse Technical Editor roles on Migrate Mate to find employers with verified LCA filing history for this specific occupation.
How does the DOL prevailing wage apply to Technical Editor H-1B petitions?
The employer must file an LCA certifying the offered wage meets or exceeds the DOL prevailing wage for Technical Editors, classified under SOC code 27-3042, in the work location's metropolitan area. The prevailing wage varies significantly by geography and is split into four wage levels based on experience. You can verify current wage levels using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating an offer.
Can a Technical Editor on OPT transfer to H-1B status without leaving the U.S.?
Yes, through a change of status filed with USCIS before your OPT or cap-gap authorization expires. Your employer submits Form I-129 on your behalf during the H-1B filing window, typically in April for an October 1 start date. If your OPT expires before October 1 and you're selected in the lottery, cap-gap rules under your F-1 status may bridge the gap automatically.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for a Technical Editor?
Beyond the standard LCA and Form I-129, a strong petition includes a detailed employer support letter explaining why the position requires a degree in a specific field, samples of complex documents the role involves such as API references or regulatory submissions, and evidence of your relevant degree and any domain-specific credentials. USCIS uses these materials to evaluate specialty occupation status if an RFE is issued.