Video Team Lead (Creative Lead)

Hostinger; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hostinger is seeking a Video Team Lead to guide a 6-person video team from concept to final cut. You will ensure assets meet performance metrics, mentor talent, and coordinate with marketing to optimize YouTube advertising impact.

You will review drafts, provide actionable input, and help implement tools and processes that drive CTR, CVR, and ROAS while staying on brand and schedule.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise in animation, video editing, and crafting high-impact YouTube hooks that grab attention and boost performance.
• Proven experience leading video teams in a fast-paced, creative, and results-driven environment.
• Strong understanding of digital performance marketing, especially in YouTube advertising and its success metrics (CTR, CVR, ROAS).
• Familiarity with YouTube-oriented methodologies and customer purchase decision pillars.
• Hands-on production background—reviewing cuts, animatics, motion, and technical implementation details.
• Ability to translate marketing insights and performance data into clear creative direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse video team of 6 people, aligning strengths with project needs and growth opportunities; conduct regular 1-on-1s and evaluations.
• Review drafts, animatics, and final cuts, providing actionable input and solving implementation issues.
• Oversee delivery of YouTube advertising assets, collaborating with marketing to optimize for CTR, CVR, and ROAS.
• Monitor timelines and resource allocation, optimizing video production workflows.
• Promote AI-enabled speedups in production while maintaining high quality and measurable impact.

Skills

Video team leadership

Video editing

Animation

YouTube performance marketing

Production review & troubleshooting

Creative direction from data

Job description

JOIN THE TEAM BUILDING AN AI-FIRST COMPANY.

Hostinger serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries, but we're still excited about what we're creating next.

AI is changing how we build products, support customers, work together, and solve problems. It helps us move faster, spend less time on repetitive work, and focus on bigger ideas.

If you want your work to influence both what we build and how we build it, we'd like to meet you.

Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles https://www.hostinger.com/principles.

YOUR ROLE AT HOSTINGER

Join Hostinger's Creative Team as a Video Team Lead and play a pivotal role in shaping how we bring ideas to life through the power of video. In this dynamic and collaborative position, you'll guide a talented team of video specialists - empowering them not just to execute projects, but to grow as creative and technical professionals. From concept to final cut, you'll ensure that our video content is delivered with purpose, precision, and impact. You will review advertising metrics and ensure that the assets delivered reflect those metrics and iterate on performance to bring it higher and higher!

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY

• Lead a diverse and skilled video team of 6 people, ensuring every team member's strengths are aligned with project needs and personal growth opportunities. Conduct regular 1-on-1s, check-ins, and performance evaluations, providing mentorship, support, and actionable feedback. Facilitate ongoing skill-building initiatives, organize training sessions, proactively facilitate growth and professional development for the video team.
• Review drafts, animatics, and final cuts with a critical eye for both creative and technical quality. Provide actionable input on produced video assets. Step in to support production, suggest tools, and solve implementation technical issues.
• Work as a hands on video generalist in the high-impact parts of video assets.
• Maintain high standards of visual storytelling and execution, aligned with Hostinger's brand, tone, quality, and business goals.
• Manage and address stakeholder feedback, aligning on expectations.
• Own the delivery of YouTube advertising assets, which form 90% of the team's output. Collaborate with marketing teams to analyze performance, apply insights, and optimize content for impact (CTR, CVR, ROAS, etc.). Ensure that each video ad is crafted not just to look good - but to convert, perform, and drive measurable business results.
• Monitor project timelines, workloads, and resource allocation, ensuring efficient use of video resources and time in constant collaboration with campaign managers.
• Take a proactive "hustler" approach - suggest workflows and technical implementation methods that are biased toward action while maintaining high quality/delivering results,
• Work closely with PPC, Copywriters, Designers, Project Managers, Product, and Marketing teams to ensure messaging, visuals, and targeting align seamlessly. Build creative video assets that reflect Customer Obsession, delivering ads that speak to real user needs and pain points.
• Promote consistency in how files, versions, and visual assets are managed throughout the production lifecycle.
• Look for opportunities to harness the power of AI to speed up video production processes. Stay ahead of video marketing trends, platform changes, and audience behaviors.
• Encourage the team to bring new concepts, unconventional formats, or bold visual ideas to the table. Promote continuous learning through inspiration sharing, workshops, and post-project retros.

WHAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED

• Hands-on expertise in animation, video editing, and crafting high-impact YouTube hooks that grab attention and boost performance.
• Proven experience leading video teams in a fast-paced, creative, and results-driven environment.
• Strong understanding of digital performance marketing, especially in YouTube advertising and its success metrics (CTR, CVR, ROAS, etc.).
• Familiarity with with Youtube ABCD, Problem - Solution methodology as well as key customer purchase decision pillars.
• Hands-on production background- comfortable reviewing cuts, animatics, motion, and technical implementation details.
• Ability to translate marketing insights and performance data into clear creative direction and …