AI Ads/UGC Performance Video Editor for DTC/Agency (Remote, Worldwide)

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About Our Clients

We are representing four ambitious, fast-growing brands across the agency and direct-to-consumer (DTC) landscape.

As these businesses continue to scale their marketing and paid media efforts, they are looking for creative talent who can bridge the gap between creative production, AI-powered content, and performance marketing.

Whether you’re a video editor who knows how to turn raw footage into high-converting ads, an AI creative producer who can generate compelling UGC-style videos, or a creative strategist who can take an idea from concept to execution, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Depending on your expertise and the specific opportunity, your responsibilities may include:

• AI-Powered Video Production: Create engaging video ads using AI video generation tools, AI avatars, synthetic UGC, voiceovers, and other AI-assisted creative workflows.
• Performance Video Editing: Edit short-form video ads for paid social platforms, including Meta, TikTok, and other relevant channels, with a focus on hooks, pacing, storytelling, and conversion.
• Creative Ideation & Strategy: Develop creative concepts, angles, hooks, scripts, storyboards, and ad variations based on audience insights, product positioning, and campaign objectives.
• End-to-End Creative Execution: Take creative projects from initial research and ideation through scripting, production, editing, iteration, and final delivery.
• UGC-Style Ad Creation: Produce authentic-feeling, creator-style content using AI-generated talent, product demonstrations, testimonials, and other direct-response creative formats.
• Performance Optimization: Collaborate with paid media and growth teams to understand ad performance, identify creative opportunities, and develop new iterations based on data and testing insights.
• Creative Testing & Iteration: Produce multiple variations of hooks, messaging, visuals, and formats to support structured creative testing and campaign optimization.
• AI Workflow Development: Explore new AI tools, techniques, and workflows that improve creative quality, speed, and production efficiency.

Requirements

We’re interested in candidates from one or more of these backgrounds:

1. Performance Video Editors

• Strong video editing skills and an understanding of direct-response advertising.
• Experience creating short-form video ads for paid social.
• A good eye for hooks, pacing, storytelling, retention, and conversion-focused editing.
• Familiarity with tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut, or similar.

2. AI Creative Producers

• Hands-on experience using AI tools to generate or enhance video content.
• Familiarity with AI video, image, voice, avatar, and creative production tools.
• Ability to create UGC-style ads, product videos, and other advertising assets with AI.
• A strong understanding of how to combine AI-generated assets with editing, storytelling, and brand direction.

3. Creative Strategists

• Ability to research audiences, competitors, products, and advertising trends.
• Experience developing creative briefs, ad concepts, hooks, scripts, and testing roadmaps.
• Understanding of direct-response marketing and performance creative principles.
• Ability to translate campaign objectives and performance insights into actionable creative ideas.

4. Hybrid Creative Talent

• Comfortable working across ideation, scripting, AI production, video editing, and creative optimization.
• Able to take ownership of a project from concept to final deliverable.
• Interested in experimenting with new AI tools and creative workflows.
• Comfortable collaborating with paid media, marketing, and creative teams.

Tools & Skills That Could Be Relevant

Experience with some of the following is a plus:

• AI video & generation: Runway, Kling, Veo, Sora, HeyGen, Synthesia, or similar tools.
• AI image & creative generation: Midjourney, Flux, ChatGPT, or similar tools.
• Video editing: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut, or equivalent.
• Voice & audio: AI voice generation, voiceovers, sound design, and audio editing.
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