Senior Video Editor, Paid Social

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $75k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎬 Video Editor

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Greenlight

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💳 Fintech

📚 Education

👥 B2C

💰 $260M Series D on 2021-04

Fintech • Education • B2C

Greenlight is a financial technology company dedicated to providing financial literacy tools and experiences for families, particularly focusing on children and teens. It offers a debit card specifically designed for kids, supported by an app that allows parents to monitor spending, automate allowances, and set savings goals. Greenlight facilitates a comprehensive learning experience by incorporating chores management, investing opportunities, and a financial education game that teaches real-world money skills. It also includes safety features such as location sharing and driving alerts to keep families connected and secure. Through partnerships with banks, the app provides various customizable plans that encourage smart financial habits from an early age.

📋 Description

• Lead editing for our highest-priority and highest-spend paid social campaigns, from brief through final delivery • Set the creative and technical bar for hooks, pacing, and platform-native storytelling across the team's output • Independently make strong creative calls on ambiguous or underspecified briefs, looping in strategists as needed rather than waiting on direction • Partner closely with creative strategists to understand and challenge the strategic rationale behind a brief • Use performance data (CTR, hook rate, thumb-stop rate, and other paid social metrics) to inform edit decisions and proactively recommend new creative directions • Build a feedback loop between what's performing and how the team edits going forward • Serve as the go-to expert on platform specs, native conventions, and emerging formats across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube • Identify and test new editing styles and formats ahead of the curve, rather than reacting to trends after they've peaked • Set the standard for turning raw, imperfect creator footage into polished, high-performing assets • Give clear, specific feedback to creators (directly or through strategists) on what footage will and won't cut well, improving submission quality over time • Review and give feedback on edits from junior and mid-level editors, raising the craft bar across the team • Help onboard new editors, sharing tools, shortcuts, and editorial standards • Help build and document workflows, templates, and best practices that let the team move faster without sacrificing quality • Act as the editorial voice in conversations with creative strategy and brand, defending craft decisions with clear rationale • Manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously, prioritizing across a fast-paced, iterative production cycle

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience editing video for paid social, performance marketing, or digital advertising, with a track record of high-performing creative • A standout reel showing range and mastery of short-form editing: hooks, pacing, captions, and platform-native formatting at a senior level • Advanced proficiency in Premiere Pro (After Effects strongly preferred; CapCut a plus) • Deep, current knowledge of specs, algorithms, and best practices across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube • Fluency in reading and acting on paid social performance data to inform creative decisions • Experience giving and receiving structured creative feedback, including mentoring more junior editors • Proven ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and prioritize across multiple concurrent projects under deadline • Strong communication skills — you can articulate the "why" behind an editorial choice to both creative and non-creative stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• discretionary performance bonus • equity rewards • medical benefits • 401K match