Senior Performance Creative Editor – Contract

• Cut paid vertical, sound-on, short, fast-paced ads for Meta and Google from strategist-provided scripts and angles
• Own and optimize the first five seconds and hooks
• Learn and apply product-specific opener principles, and challenge them when appropriate
• Iterate winning ads rather than only originating new concepts
• Build variants that intentionally change one element to produce useful testing insights
• Read creative analytics and attribution data
• Bring performance reads to the weekly creative review
• Ship 15 to 25 finished ads per month

• Three or more years cutting ads that ran on a paid account
• Experience with paid ads as the primary focus of work
• Ability to identify a brand that spent money distributing edited content
• Demonstrated ability to personally move a performance number on specific creative, before and after
• Understanding of which performance metrics determine success and which can mislead
• Fluent, invisible use of generative AI tooling for image and video generation, voice, upscaling, automated captioning, and reframing
• Premiere or DaVinci at a professional standard, plus After Effects or CapCut
• Ability to finish own sound
• English good enough to argue with a media buyer about creative hooks
• Own machine, reliable internet, and quiet place to take calls
• Direct-response advertising experience; portfolio must not be primarily corporate/internal communications, brand films, weddings/events, news/broadcast, documentary, event recaps/sizzle reels, music videos, real estate, podcast production, long-form YouTube, or B2B training
• Supplements, wellness, beverage, beauty, or DTC subscription experience strongly preferred
• Experience with offer-led creative, objection/confession openers, and talking-to-camera formats strongly preferred
• Creative analytics tools such as Motion, Triple Whale, or Northbeam strongly preferred
• Experience cutting creator and UGC footage strongly preferred
• No degree, cinematic showreel, agency names, or people-management experience required

• Independent contractor, ongoing, invoiced monthly
• Remote, anywhere in Europe or Latin America
• Async by default
• 2–3 hours of daily overlap with Austin, Texas (Central Time), with flexible choice of hours
• Full-time equivalent effort
• Software seats provided (Adobe CC, Motion, Frame.io)
• Footage, product and creator assets provided