Full Time
$750/Month
40
Jul 11, 2026
We're a US-based DTC brand hiring a full-time short-form video editor to build high-converting paid social ads (Meta, 9:16 vertical) from studio and produced footage.
This is not UGC/talking-head editing. You'll be working with polished product footage and creator-supplied B-roll, and building the ad yourself — constructing the hook, the story, and the pacing from raw material rather than sharpening an existing performance. We're looking for someone with strong creative instincts who can make an ad land without a creator narrating it for them.
What you'll do:
Edit 15s / 30s / 40s vertical ads from studio footage + creator B-roll
Build hooks from product and lifestyle footage — no talking head to carry it
Use motion graphics, text-on-screen, sound design, and pacing to drive the message and the CTA
Make your own creative calls on structure, cuts, music, and typography
Deliver consistent daily output (roughly 5–6 short edits/day once ramped)
You must have:
Strong short-form/paid-social editing experience with produced or branded footage — portfolio required
Real motion graphics ability (After Effects or equivalent). This is essential, not optional.
A sharp instinct for hooks and retention in vertical video without relying on a creator's performance
Excellent written English, reliable full-time availability, and the confidence to work independently
Nice to have: DTC/ecommerce ad experience, sound design, Meta Ads familiarity, jewelry/lifestyle/product-focused work.
To apply: Start your reply with the word "BROLL" so I know you read this. Include 2–3 links to vertical ads you personally edited that don't rely on a talking-head creator — product, studio, or B-roll-driven work. For one of them, tell me in a line or two how you built the hook without a person speaking. Applications without samples or the code word won't be reviewed.
Skills: Video Editing · Adobe After Effects · Adobe Premiere Pro (After Effects moves up in priority here)
Wage: This skillset commands more than UGC assembly — motion graphics plus creative construction is a genuinely scarcer combination. I'd post $800–$1,100/month full-time and expect the strong candidates to sit at the top of it. Your $5/video math strains at this tier; at ~$900 and 120 edits/month you're closer to $7.50/video. That's the honest cost of the skill, and it's worth d
Two things I'd change in your screening funnel for this role specifically:
The portfolio filter gets stricter. Most editors' reels are stuffed with UGC because that's where the volume is. Explicitly asking for non-talking-head samples is what separates them, and a lot of applicants simply won't have any. That's the point.
The trial task should give them the hard version. Send studio footage plus B-roll with no voiceover and no script — and let them build. Same brief structure as before, but the hook question becomes the whole evaluation: how did you stop the scroll with no one talking? An editor who can answer that convincingly is rare and worth paying for.
One practical suggestion: run this as a separate posting from the UGC role rather than one combined "video editor" post. The talent pools barely overlap, and a combined post gets you a flood of UGC editors who'll all fail the B-roll test.
Want me to draft the trial brief for this version — the studio/B-roll build-from-scratch test?