Senior Video Editor

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

📋 Description

• Edit direct-response videos for Meta and other paid social media platforms.

• Transform strategic briefs, scripts, raw footage, user-generated content, and existing assets into captivating advertisements.

• Develop engaging hooks, pacing, narratives, captions, graphics, sound design, and calls to action.

• Comprehend the customer insights and commercial objectives associated with each brief.

• Utilize AI video and production tools to enhance speed, quality, or creative opportunities.

• Analyze ad performance data, including spend, ROAS, CPA, CTR, hook rate, and retention metrics.

• Identify factors that are boosting or hindering performance.

• Independently create new iterations based on data-driven insights.

• Distinguish between weak concepts and poor executions, recommending subsequent tests.

• Efficiently produce variations without reducing concepts to mere superficial hook changes.

• Collaborate with Creative Strategists and media buyers.

• Uphold high creative standards across various brands and markets.

• Clearly organize files, versions, and feedback within a high-output environment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience in editing direct-response or performance videos for DTC/eCommerce brands.

• A portfolio showcasing high-quality paid social video work, distinct from organic or brand content.

• Proven ability to analyze ad results and leverage insights to enhance creative output.

• Proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, or similar editing tools.

• Hands-on experience with AI video tools like Runway, Sora, Veo, Kling, ElevenLabs, or similar technologies.

• Strong intuitive grasp of hooks, pacing, visual storytelling, and editing focused on conversion.

• Capable of working from concise briefs and taking initiative without extensive supervision.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with strategists and performance marketers.

• Consistent availability during European working hours.

• High personal standards, pace, and accountability in work delivery.

• Beneficial but not mandatory: experience in international or multilingual markets.

• Beneficial but not mandatory: editing user-generated content, VSL, founder-led content, product demonstrations, and cinematic AI creatives.

• Beneficial but not mandatory: skills in motion design, sound design, or broader production capabilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work with collaboration aligned to European hours.

• Flexible time off arranged around team needs and key commercial launch periods.

• Quarterly team gatherings in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with travel expenses covered by SMT Group.

• A high-volume creative environment enriched with meaningful performance data.

• Opportunity to collaborate with seasoned Creative Strategists.

• Autonomy in shaping creative projects.

• Work with international brands at a significant scale in paid social media.

• A flat, fast-paced, and highly commercial organizational culture.

• A high-trust, output-driven working style.

• Options for employee or contractor arrangements available.