Senior Video Editor, Paid Social

2 hours, 28 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Design and User Experience
Greenlight

Greenlight

Greenlight is a financial technology company offering a debit card and money app for families, empowering parents to raise financially smart kids through smart spending and investing.

Capital Markets
251-1K
Founded 2014
$556M raised

Description

  • Lead editing for the highest-priority and highest-spend paid social campaigns from brief through final delivery.
  • Set the creative and technical standard for hooks, pacing, captions, and platform-native storytelling.
  • Make independent creative decisions on ambiguous briefs and collaborate with strategists as needed.
  • Partner with creative strategists to evaluate and challenge the strategy behind each brief.
  • Use paid social performance data such as CTR, hook rate, and thumb-stop rate to guide edit decisions.
  • Build feedback loops between performance results and future editing approaches.
  • Serve as the go-to expert on platform specs, native conventions, and emerging formats across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Identify, test, and implement new editing styles and formats ahead of trends.
  • Shape raw creator footage into polished, high-performing assets and improve footage submission quality through feedback.
  • Review work from junior and mid-level editors, help onboard new editors, and document workflows, templates, and best practices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience editing video for paid social, performance marketing, or digital advertising.
  • A standout reel demonstrating senior-level short-form editing skills, including hooks, pacing, captions, and platform-native formatting.
  • Advanced proficiency in Premiere Pro.
  • After Effects experience is strongly preferred.
  • CapCut experience is a plus.
  • Deep, current knowledge of Meta, TikTok, and YouTube specs, algorithms, and best practices.
  • Ability to read and act on paid social performance data to inform creative decisions.
  • Experience giving and receiving structured creative feedback, including mentoring junior editors.
  • Proven ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and prioritize multiple concurrent projects under deadline.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain editorial decisions to both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
  • Experience building or managing editorial workflows, style guides, or training materials is preferred.
  • Experience editing UGC or creator content for paid ad campaigns at scale is preferred.
  • Familiarity with fintech, family finance, or consumer subscription products is preferred.
  • Motion graphics or animation experience beyond the basics is preferred.
  • Experience partnering directly with media buyers on creative testing strategy is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with market-based pay.
  • Discretionary performance bonus.
  • Equity rewards.
  • Medical benefits.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Estimated base pay range of $75,000-$115,000 in NY/CA/WA and $75,000-$100,000 in CO.
  • Inclusive work environment with reasonable accommodations available during the hiring process.

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