The role
You'll lead a team of 5+ editors producing AI-generated and traditional direct response ads for Meta, TikTok and YouTube. It's a player-coach seat with a direct line to the Head of Creative.
What you'll do
- Produce high-converting paid ads at volume, using AI generation and real creator footage
- Lead editors: assign work, review cuts, give specific feedback, hold deadlines
- Build the production system: templates, prompts, QA checks, hook and pacing standards
- Turn briefs and performance data into the next ad iteration with strategists and media buyers
- Evaluate and roll out new AI video tools as they launch
What they're looking for
Must-haves
- 4+ years editing paid social ads for DTC or eCommerce brands
- Portfolio of ads that performed at scale, including AI-generated ads that converted
- Hands-on with gen-AI video tools like Sora, Veo, Kling, Runway, HeyGen, ElevenLabs
- Premiere Pro and After Effects, plus experience running a team of editors
- Available 30-40 hours per week
Nice to have
- Experience at a 7- to 9-figure DTC brand or performance creative agency
- Automation experience (n8n, ffmpeg/Python pipelines, Claude/ChatGPT in workflow)
- CapCut, UGC and creator-led content experience
Skills and platforms
- Paid Social Video Editing
- AI Video Generation
- Direct Response Advertising
- Team Leadership
- Video Editing
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe After Effects
- CapCut
- Creative Quality Assurance
- Production Workflow Development
- Performance Data Analysis
- Creative Iteration
- Hook and Retention Optimization
- Project Management
- AI Tool Evaluation
- Automation
- TikTok
- YouTube
The company
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DTC brand builder with ~$80M revenue · Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
A US DTC-focused company that partners with and scales consumer brands, running product development, overseas manufacturing, fulfillment and performance marketing in-house. It has roughly $80M in annual revenue.
The company is hiring directly, so you apply straight to them.
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