Hiring: Lead Video Editor

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Full nameEmailPhone — optionalLocation and time zone — optionalLinkedIn — optionalPortfolio — optionalYour CV — PDF please, up to 4 MB; it is read as part of your applicationIntro video — required · a short video of you (1 to 2 minutes), MP4, MOV or WebM up to 100 MB, or a linkor a link anyone can open (YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, or Drive shared as “Anyone with the link”):Why this role? — optional

What is your expected monthly compensation in USD?

Please give a single gross monthly figure (not hourly or annual). The budget for this role is $2,800–$3,000 per month plus a performance bonus, with current top editors earning an additional $1,000–$2,000 per month.

What is the earliest date you could start?

If you are serving a notice period, give the first date you would realistically be available.

How much of your working day can you overlap with US Eastern Time business hours (9am–5pm ET)?

This role reviews and approves creative daily alongside media buyers and strategists, so overlap matters. Answer honestly about what you can sustain long term.

Which best describes your experience leading video editors on direct-response or performance ads?

Choose the single closest match. "Leading" means you owned hiring, standards, coaching or final approval, not only passing on feedback.

Have you personally edited or directly overseen video ads that became top performers at meaningful paid spend?

Answer yes only if you can point to specific ads and the results they drove; you will be asked for links and numbers next.

What is the largest monthly paid media spend running behind creative you personally produced or approved?

Think of the single account or brand at its peak month. Choose the honest option if you were never shown the spend figures.

Which of the following have you personally owned (not just used or contributed to)?

Select everything you were accountable for. Leave unselected anything someone else owned.

Hiring and onboarding editors Performance scorecards and development plans Final quality approval before launch Editing SOPs and documented workflows Asset management and version control Frame.io or an equivalent review/approval platform Project management tools (Asana, ClickUp, Notion or similar) AI-assisted editing or production tools Tracking editor output, hit rate and throughput Managing out an underperforming editor None of these

Link to 2–3 winning video ads you edited or approved.

One link (Google Drive, Dropbox, Frame.io or a portfolio page) containing the finished ads, not a showreel of clips. Make sure sharing permissions are open and the link does not expire.

Pick one ad from that link and explain why it won.

Cover: the brand and offer, what you personally did versus the rest of the team, the creative decisions (hook, pacing, structure) you believe drove performance, and the numbers you can stand behind (spend, ROAS/CPA, how long it ran). Specifics beat adjectives.

Scenario: your team's hit rate has fallen for two months running. Your most experienced editor, once your strongest, is now shipping late and off-standard; a media buyer has started bypassing your review to launch ads directly; and output volume targets have not changed. Describe what you would do in your first 30 days.

In a few paragraphs, set out how you would diagnose the root cause, the conversation you would have with that editor, how you would handle the media buyer, and which systems or standards you would change. Write it yourself; obviously generic or AI-written answers are easy to spot.

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