Performance Video Editor for Meta Ads. Fast, Creative, Brand-Led

We're an established Australian DTC brand running paid social at scale. We're looking for one video editor to become our go-to person for Meta ad creative, someone we can push hard, who turns work around fast, and who understands that an ad is a performance asset, not a showreel piece.

What you'll actually be doing"

- Cutting Meta/Instagram ad creative from our raw footage, product, lifestyle, UGC, studio
- Producing multiple hook variations, lengths and aspect ratios from the same source material (9:16, 4:5, 1:1)
- Building video assets from static images alone — motion, pacing, transitions, kinetic type, when there's no footage to work with.
- Iterating fast on winners: new hooks, new openers, new end cards, new angles on an ad that's already performing. (these provided by our team)
- Working inside our brand guidelines: our fonts, our colour palette, our tone, without needing to be re-briefed every time

Turning briefs around in 24–48 hours, and short-notice single assets faster than that.

What we need you to already know:

- How Meta's algorithm actually behaves in 2026: creative volume, testing structures, why the first two seconds decide everything, creative fatigue and how fast you need to refresh.
- The difference between a beautiful video and one that converts, and why they're often not the same video/
- Current formats and trends on Meta and TikTok, and how to use them without making our brand look like it's chasing them
- Real design fundamentals: typography, hierarchy, colour, composition, motion. We want someone with taste, who can be trusted with our brand.
- Captioning, sound design, licensed/royalty-free music, safe zones and platform specs.

- Ideally you should know know how to work/edit in CapCut

Non-negotiables

- Extreme speed without a drop in quality. If a two-day turnaround on a batch is a stretch for you, this isn't the role.
- Availability to take on extra volume at short notice.
- Fluent written English and same-day communication on weekdays (we're in Brisbane, AEST — significant overlap required, not full alignment).
- You edit yourself. No agencies, no white-labelling, no "team of editors". We want to work with the person doing the work.
- Your own licensed software and hardware capable of fast turnaround.

Please don't apply if:

- Your portfolio is wedding films, corporate explainers, YouTube long-form or showreels with no paid social work.
- You've never had creative running behind real ad spend.
- You need a storyboard and a shot list to start.
- You're sending a generic proposal. We'll know.

To apply:

- Applications that don't follow this format will not be reviewed.
- Start your proposal with the word RENDER. This is how we know you read the ad.
- Send 3–5 links to Meta ad creative you personally edited that ran with real spend. Direct links or a folder.
- Tell us which software you work in and how you handle receiving raw footage and delivering finals.

What we offer:

Consistent, ongoing volume for the right person: this is not a one-off project. We move fast, we brief clearly, we pay on time, and if the work is good the workload grows.