Video Editor (Performance Ads)

Performance Video Editor – Paid Social

Our client is seeking a Performance Video Editor who specializes in creating short-form video advertisements that capture attention and drive conversions. Reporting to the Creative Strategist, you will transform supplied footage, user-generated content, stock assets, and graphics into scroll-stopping ads for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. You will create multiple hooks and variations, respond quickly to creative briefs, and refine ads based on performance feedback.

This is an editing-focused position. The company’s onshore team handles filming and content production, so you will not be expected to shoot footage or work on set.

The ideal candidate understands how strong hooks, effective pacing, engaging captions, and sound design can improve viewer retention and advertising performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit short-form video advertisements for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube using supplied footage, UGC, stock content, and graphics.
• Turn creative briefs into polished, conversion-focused ads.
• Create multiple hooks, angles, and variations for each concept to support ongoing creative testing.
• Add captions, motion graphics, music, and sound design that capture attention and communicate the message clearly.
• Edit for performance by considering hooks, pacing, viewer retention, product benefits, offers, and calls to action.
• Iterate on existing ads based on performance data and feedback from the Creative Strategist.
• Repurpose and resize successful ads for different platforms, placements, formats, and aspect ratios.
• Deliver a consistent volume of high-quality creative within agreed timelines.
• Maintain organized project files, footage, assets, and clean handovers.
• Stay current with paid-social trends, platform-native formats, editing techniques, and high-performing creative styles.
• Collaborate remotely with the creative team and communicate clearly regarding feedback, deadlines, and deliverables.

• 2-4 years of professional video-editing experience, ideally creating performance or direct-response advertisements.
• Demonstrated experience editing short-form content for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, or similar digital platforms.
• Strong command of Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Working knowledge of Adobe After Effects for motion graphics and animation.
• Strong understanding of hooks, pacing, storytelling, and viewer-retention techniques.
• Experience working with UGC, product footage, lifestyle content, stock assets, and graphics.
• Ability to produce multiple creative variations efficiently without compromising quality.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow creative briefs.
• Comfortable receiving feedback and completing revisions quickly.
• Reliable computer, high-speed internet connection, and a professional remote-work setup.
• Ability to provide several hours of daily overlap with the Brisbane, Australia team.
• A portfolio or showreel demonstrating relevant social-media and advertising work is required.

• Experience working with DTC or eCommerce brands.
• Experience in activewear, fitness, wellness, supplements, food, beauty, or other consumer-product categories.
• Familiarity with CapCut or other short-form editing tools.
• Strong motion-graphics and sound-design skills.
• Experience working in a high-volume creative-testing environment.
• Understanding of advertising metrics such as click-through rate, conversion rate, cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, and video retention.
• Experience collaborating with creative strategists, growth marketers, or media buyers.

• Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Creative Center, YouTube Studio, and reliable computer with stable internet.