Remote Video Editor – Performance Ads & Short-Form Content

Aperture; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere

Regular team meetups

Travel covered for team retreats

Exposure to high-growth clients

Conferences and industry events

Job summary

Aperture is hiring a Video Editor to craft brilliant, high-performing content for our clients and for Aperture. You should be chronically online in the best possible way, spotting emerging formats before brands copy them and turning raw footage into paid social ads and engaging organic content.

You’ll bring references, shape concepts, and help make every idea stronger. Collaborate with strategists, designers and creator managers to push creative boundaries and drive performance.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to edit short-form video content for social platforms (TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts).
• Strong sense of pacing, hooks and storytelling in fast-moving formats.
• Comfort working with creators, strategists and performance marketers to optimise edits.

Responsibilities

• Edit paid social ads, UGC, creator content and short-form organic videos.
• Create multiple versions of concepts to test different openings and lengths.
• Add captions, music, sound design, graphics and motion where they improve the work.
• Adapt videos for TikTok, Reels, Meta, YouTube Shorts and emerging platforms.
• Keep up with trends, sounds and wider internet culture.
• Bring references and proactive ideas into creative discussions.
• Work closely with creative strategists, designers and creator managers.
• Use performance results to improve future edits and iterate on winning ideas.
• Use AI tools to speed up production while raising ambition.
• Keep projects and source files organised across multiple accounts.

Skills

Short-form video editing

Trend awareness

Storytelling

Feedback adaptability

Fast turnaround

Platform knowledge

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

CapCut

Job description

Aperture is hiring a Video Editor to craft brilliant, high-performing content for our clients and for Aperture. You should be chronically online in the best possible way, spotting emerging formats before brands copy them and turning raw footage into paid social ads and engaging organic content.

You’ll bring references, shape concepts, and help make every idea stronger. Collaborate with strategists, designers and creator managers to push creative boundaries and drive performance.