Editor, Paid Social

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Edit short-form creative content aimed at performance for Meta, TikTok, and various paid social platforms.

• Transform scripts, footage, user-generated content (UGC), AI-generated materials, and other resources into engaging, platform-specific advertisements.

• Utilize creative judgment with a focus on hooks, pacing, audience retention, storytelling, sound, and principles of direct-response creativity.

• Collaborate with Creative Directors, Strategists, copywriters, and the creative team to generate concepts and address creative challenges.

• Quickly iterate based on constructive feedback and performance insights.

• Employ AI to create or modify footage, B-roll, images, and other assets to enhance speed, quality, or creative potential.

• Work together with the AI Creative Lead on sophisticated workflows.

• Develop and refine multiple variations of concepts, hooks, messaging, and visual styles for extensive creative testing.

• Uphold a high standard of craftsmanship across visuals, audio, graphics, captions, and overall execution.

• Perform swiftly within brand guidelines, platform standards, and compliance regulations.

• Contribute to the Forbes Advisor Home vertical.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional video editing experience, preferably in social media, performance marketing, advertising, content creation, or a similarly high-output setting.

• A robust portfolio showcasing short-form social and performance-driven creative work.

• Extensive experience in editing for Meta, Instagram, TikTok, and other short-form platforms.

• Strong grasp of hooks and audience retention strategies.

• In-depth knowledge of platform-specific pacing.

• Comprehensive understanding of social-first storytelling techniques.

• Proficient in UGC-style editing.

• Solid knowledge of captions and subtitles.

• Well-versed in sound design principles.

• Familiarity with creative testing and iterative processes.

• Comfortable in a high-output environment where creativity is consistently tested, refined, and guided by performance data.

• Proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro.

• A portfolio or reel that highlights relevant short-form work.

• Examples of paid social creative for Meta/TikTok edited by the applicant.

• A brief summary of experience with social-first and direct-response editing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities and protection against discrimination and harassment.

• AI-assisted creative workflows and exposure to cutting-edge AI creative tools.