High-Velocity Performance Video Editor (Remote)

Socket.dev; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Bidbus is seeking a high-velocity, performance-minded video editor to create and repurpose paid-social content for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms. You will turn UGC, creator footage, customer testimonials, dealership content, interviews, organic social videos, and existing assets into high-performing direct-response ads.

This role is built for an editor who understands that one strong source asset can become dozens of effective creative variations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience editing short-form, paid-social, direct-response, or performance marketing videos.
• Experience editing for a DTC, consumer technology, marketplace, agency, or performance-driven brand.
• A strong portfolio that includes paid-social ads, UGC edits, repurposed content, and creative variations.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Working knowledge of After Effects, motion graphics, captions, sound design, and visual effects.
• Strong understanding of hooks, retention, pacing, offers, calls to action, and conversion-focused storytelling.
• Ability to find multiple creative opportunities within a single piece of source footage.
• Able to follow a brief closely while using strong editorial judgment.
• Comfortable working independently, receiving direct feedback, and moving quickly through revisions.
• Bonus Points — Experience editing automotive, marketplace, local-service, or lead-generation advertising.
• Familiarity with Meta and TikTok creative-performance metrics.
• Experience using AI tools for editing, voiceover, captioning, asset generation, or workflow automation.
• Experience repurposing podcasts, interviews, creator content, or long-form videos into short-form paid ads.
• Examples of ads that scaled meaningfully or improved through creative iteration.

Responsibilities

• Produce approximately 8–12 paid-social video cuts each week.
• Turn creative briefs into first drafts within 48 hours.
• Repurpose creator, UGC, organic, testimonial, and long-form footage into multiple paid-social assets.
• Turn one source video into new hooks, openings, formats, lengths, angles, and calls to action.
• Edit direct-response ads for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other paid channels.
• Create platform-specific versions, including vertical, square, and horizontal formats.
• Edit UGC, customer stories, dealership footage, interviews, founder-led content, and automotive videos.
• Improve retention through pacing, captions, pattern interrupts, sound design, motion graphics, and visual storytelling.
• Collaborate with creative strategy and performance marketing to iterate based on campaign results.
• Identify reusable moments and winning elements across the Bidbus content library.
• Maintain an organized, searchable asset library and clean project files.
• Complete strong self-QA across audio, color, captions, formatting, branding, and platform safe zones.

Skills

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects

Direct-response editing

Creative storytelling

Short-form video editing

Fast turnaround

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Motion graphics basics

Job description

Bidbus is seeking a high-velocity, performance-minded video editor to create and repurpose paid-social content for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms. You will turn UGC, creator footage, customer testimonials, dealership content, interviews, organic social videos, and existing assets into high-performing direct-response ads.

This role is built for an editor who understands that one strong source asset can become dozens of effective creative variations.