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  • Raise the creative bar by setting quality standards and giving actionable feedback grounded in performance data.
  • Lead your pod of editors, evaluating talent, identifying gaps, and owning staffing decisions to drive post-production output.
  • Partner with strategy, production, and creative directors to turn campaign strategy into high-performing creative and improve workflows.

Video Editing Premiere Pro After Effects Adobe Creative Suite Team Leadership

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  • Build the editing system from scratch, including workflows, standards, templates, and training programs for a high-output team.
  • Lead the AI-native video pipeline by integrating generative video models, avatar tools, and AI-assisted editing workflows.
  • Provide frequent creative feedback, manage team throughput and quality, and personally handle the most difficult edits.

Rosabella is a direct-to-consumer supplement brand dedicated to helping women during menopause and beyond. The company is a small, high-ownership startup with a fast-paced culture focused on performance and outcomes.

$100,000–$125,000/yr
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  • Support the end-to-end post-production lifecycle on high-velocity projects, from footage ingestion to final delivery.
  • Master platform-specific requirements for TikTok, Reels, YouTube, and LinkedIn to create optimized content.
  • Edit projects from start to finish, incorporating feedback and collaborating with creative teams.

Advanced Systems Group enables creativity through better technology and operations for media creatives and content owners. It is one of North America’s largest Media and Entertainment Technology and Operations suppliers, with teams in North America, South America, and Europe.

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  • Ship 8–12 cuts per week including UGC reformats, hook variants, and paid social cuts
  • Execute briefs precisely with hook, hold, payoff, CTA, music, and pacing
  • Repurpose UGC submissions into multiple cuts with different hooks and angles

Superpower is a new health system on a mission to extend and enhance human life. They are a fast-growing health tech company with a culture of high performance and a health-first ethos.

$80,000–$100,000/yr
US

  • Edit high-performing long-form YouTube content for clients, from rough cuts to polished final edits.
  • Collaborate with producers and strategists to interpret creative briefs and bring concepts to life.
  • Manage multiple projects and clients at once while meeting deadlines and maintaining consistency across series.

Snowball is building a YouTube agency that helps the world's biggest brands create content that people actually want to watch at scale. The team has collectively generated over 110 billion views and includes strategists from iconic names like WIRED and Vogue.

LATAM Africa Eastern Europe

  • Edit sophisticated, high-energy video content for social media, interviews, and music festivals using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
  • Create music-driven edits, montages, and motion graphics that sync with rhythm and pacing to tell compelling stories.
  • Adapt edits to client styles, platform requirements, and creative direction while maintaining high production quality.

US

  • Cut 8–12 ads per week, collaborating with the Creative Director to bring concepts to life.
  • Assemble UGC and influencer footage into ads that hold attention beyond the 3-second mark.
  • Build subtitles, motion graphics, and sound design that serve the message with rapid turnaround.

Catch Creation is a global eCommerce company that creates, grows, and manages online brands. Our remote-first team combines creativity, data-driven strategy, and innovation to build scalable eCommerce solutions.

$1,400–$2,100/mo
LATAM Africa Eastern Europe

  • Transform live program recordings into polished, on-demand educational videos with a 24-hour turnaround.
  • Independently review and edit content, removing off-topic segments while maintaining educational flow.
  • Utilize AI-powered tools like HeyGen and Opus for localization and social media clip creation.

The client is a fast-growing digital education company producing live and on-demand educational content. They are expanding their evergreen content library and preparing for international localization, seeking a skilled Video Editor.

  • Produce a high-volume stream of short-form video for Instagram and YouTube, including hooks, reels, and trend-led pieces.
  • Edit with genuine craft, focusing on pacing, motion, sound design, and finishing details.
  • Own the full process from concept to storyboard to generation to final edit to publish, independently and quickly.

HexCoded is an AI video studio focused on enabling users to create any video, image, or audio they can imagine. It is a small, fast-moving team building tools to reshape content creation.

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  • Own the moment queue: pull 8 to 12 clip-worthy moments per stream, tagged with timestamps and topics.
  • Own the review gate: clear every cut before it posts, sending back notes specific enough to act on.
  • Live by your hit rate: track which picks win and let that change what you pull next month.

Johnny Chang creates biblical content to bring clarity and guidance to people seeking God. The team is small, remote, and values radical accountability, urgency, discipline, and grace.

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  • Edit YouTube-first content aligned with Purdue Global's mission, voice, and learning philosophy.
  • Own pacing, story structure, and retention, shaping edits for how audiences actually watch.
  • Create motion graphics, social effects, and thumbnails to elevate storytelling and optimize performance.

Purdue Global is an online university for working adults, part of the Purdue University system with a 150-year legacy of innovation. The team is mission-driven, collaborative, and values curiosity and creative ownership.

$1,500–$5,000/mo
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  • Edit short-form paid social video ads to drive performance across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Iterate on creative based on performance insights and apply best practices around hooks, pacing, clarity, and CTAs.
  • Collaborate asynchronously with Creative Strategists and Growth teams to maintain quality and consistency across high-volume output.

Incubator Lab is a performance-focused growth organization that builds and scales brands through rapid experimentation and creative iteration. We operate as an internal growth engine, not an agency, and are a global, remote team that values async-first collaboration.

$1,000–$1,500/mo
LATAM Africa Eastern Europe

  • Transform raw attorney footage into polished, branded short-form and long-form content for social media, YouTube, and digital advertising.
  • Create accurate captions, apply branding, select B-roll, and ensure high quality and consistency across multiple client projects.
  • Work independently with raw footage, transcripts, creative instructions, and brand guidelines to deliver engaging, professional videos on schedule.

Our client is a digital marketing agency that helps law firms strengthen their visibility, authority, and online presence through AI, search, website development, paid media, social media, and video marketing. The agency serves a growing portfolio of law firm clients and seeks to scale video production efficiently.

US

  • Lead high-quality video and animation projects from brief to final delivery during a five-month contract.
  • Coordinate production schedules, stakeholders, and external creative partners to ensure smooth execution.
  • Support post-production tasks such as editing, captioning, and versioning as needed.

A fast-moving brand marketing organization seeking a video lead for a five-month contract. They value curiosity, diverse perspectives, innovation, and authentic collaboration.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Edit UGC-style videos for social media platforms including IG Reels, Meta ads, and TikTok.
  • Develop thumb-stopping edits with seamless audio, text overlays, and motion graphics to drive key brand messaging.
  • Collaborate with the performance marketing team to review ad analytics and optimize creative for performance.

We are a next-generation growth marketing firm engineering the brands of tomorrow using AI-powered strategies. Founded in 2017, we are one of the fastest-growing private companies in America (Inc. 5000) with a culture of high performance, autonomy, and ownership.

US Canada

  • Own the YouTube channel strategy, growth, and content production using Runway's generative AI tools.
  • Create tutorials, screen recordings, and motion graphics to teach filmmakers and advertisers how to use AI in production.
  • Collaborate with product and marketing teams while building a viewer community and iterating on content performance.

Runway builds AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. The team consists of creative, open-minded, caring and ambitious people determined to change the world.

Global

  • Own end-to-end video production and define remote production standards.
  • Edit majority of output across formats and own YouTube channel growth.
  • Build systems for intake, asset libraries, and manage external freelancers.

Platform Engineering is a media house for the world's largest community of platform engineers, hosting PlatformCon and producing content. They are a distributed team with a trusting culture and reach hundreds of thousands of engineers worldwide.

$1,200–$1,200/mo
Global

  • Edit 15–20 short-form direct-response ads per week for Facebook, Instagram Reels, TikTok, and Snapchat.
  • Cut fast-paced, hook-driven creative with strong first 3 seconds, hard cuts, zooms, and pattern interrupts.
  • Build UGC-style ads, testimonial edits, and longer-form video sales letters with captions, sound design, and motion graphics.

We're a US-based performance marketing company that runs paid advertising across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and native platforms to connect Americans with credit card debt to companies that can help them. We're a small, in-house team building a content operation, not hiring one-off gigs, and we value creative that directly drives revenue.

US

  • Produce 8–12 paid-social video cuts weekly, delivering first drafts within 48 hours.
  • Repurpose existing content into multiple variations, including different hooks, formats, and calls to action.
  • Edit direct-response ads for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, optimizing for retention and conversion.

Bidbus is a transparent marketplace for selling cars through live auctions. With over $18M raised, the company is scaling rapidly across multiple markets.

Pakistan

  • Edit and produce high-quality video assets for social media and paid ads, transforming raw footage into performance-driven deliverables.
  • Craft compelling narratives with strong hooks and platform-optimized storytelling for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Integrate motion graphics, captions, music, and sound design to elevate content quality and engagement.

Nysonian builds the next generation of global lifestyle brands, creating products and experiences that empower people worldwide. With $150M+ in revenue, 300+ teammates across 6 countries, and 1.3M+ customers, the company fosters a culture of accountability, transparency, and execution.

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  • Edit high-volume video advertisements for Meta paid social campaigns with speed and attention to detail.
  • Transform creative briefs and raw assets into polished, conversion-focused video content.
  • Apply direct-response editing principles to create content designed to drive measurable results.

Our partner is a fast-growing digital brand focused on creating high-performing paid social content. They operate as a dynamic and results-oriented environment with a small to medium-sized team.