Performance Video Editor

Responsibilities

• Edit performance marketing creative for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other paid channels, with a strong focus on hooks, pacing, retention, clarity, and conversion
• Turn UGC from paid creator partnerships, patients, and dermatology partners into high-performing ads that feel native rather than overly produced
• Build multiple versions, hooks, and iterations from the same source footage + b-roll to support rapid creative testing
• Work from creative briefs while bringing your own editorial point of view to strengthen the final execution
• Use performance learnings and feedback from the growth team to continuously improve future edits
• Edit organic video content for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, balancing brand consistency with native pacing and storytelling
• Understand how organic creative differs from paid creative and make editorial decisions that support virality, retention, shares, saves, and engagement
• Stay current on social editing styles, formats, trends, hooks, sounds, and emerging platform behaviors without chasing trends that don't fit the brand
• Edit footage captured by our videographer into polished, premium content used across paid ads, organic channels, brand storytelling, and celebrity partnerships
• Confidently handle higher-end post-production, including multicam or interview edits, color, audio, and sound design

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional video editing experience with a strong portfolio spanning performance creative, UGC, and polished brand content
• Deep understanding of performance marketing creative and how to edit ads for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube
• Strong understanding of organic Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube creative and the factors that drive attention and engagement
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Experience editing both short-form UGC/social content and higher-end hi-fi footage
• Strong command of pacing, storytelling, and sound design
• Comfort working quickly, managing multiple projects at once, and iterating based on creative feedback and performance learnings
• Based in New York City or the surrounding area

Preferred

• Previous experience editing at a creative, performance marketing, or advertising agency
• Motion graphics or animation skills in Adobe After Effects or similar
• Hands-on experience with Higgsfield and other AI video or editing tools
• Experience editing for skincare, beauty, dermatology, healthcare, wellness, or other medical-related brands
• Experience editing celebrity, creator, patient, or expert-led partnerships

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Free Honeydew membership
• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• One Medical, Kindbody, Talkspace, and HealthAdvocate memberships
• Company MacBook + monthly internet stipend