Video Editor, Paid Social

Greenlight Financial Technology • Atlanta, GA

5d • $55,000 - $95,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Greenlight is seeking a Video Editor, Paid Social to join their team. This role will be responsible for transforming creative briefs, raw footage, and creator content into engaging videos optimized for paid social platforms like Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. The position is ideal for an early-career editor with strong instincts for pacing and storytelling, who is eager to refine their skills using performance data. It's a hands-on, production-focused role with opportunities for growth, requiring a candidate who is both fast and detail-oriented in editing, and keen to understand the effectiveness of their work.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of experience editing video for paid social, social media, or digital marketing; agency, in-house brand, or freelance experience welcome.
• A strong reel demonstrating short-form editing chops — pacing, hooks, captions, and platform-native formatting.
• Proficiency in Premiere Pro and/or CapCut (After Effects a plus).
• Solid understanding of specs, trends, and best practices across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
• An eye for what makes content perform, and curiosity about the strategy and data behind it.
• Comfortable working with raw, imperfect creator footage and making it shine.
• Organized and detail-oriented — you keep versions, exports, and file names clean under deadline pressure.
• Coachable self-starter who takes feedback well and is eager to build speed and range over time.

Nice To Haves

• Experience editing UGC/creator content specifically for paid ad campaigns.
• Familiarity with fintech, family finance, or consumer subscription products.
• Basic motion graphics or animation skills.
• Experience contributing to or reading paid social performance data (CTR, hook rate, thumb-stop rate) to inform edits.

Responsibilities

• Edit short-form video for paid social from creative briefs, raw footage, and creator-submitted content.
• Build strong hooks and pacing designed to stop the scroll in the first 1-3 seconds, and hold attention through the full spot.
• Produce multiple cuts and variants (lengths, aspect ratios, hooks, captions) for testing across platforms.
• Partner with creative strategists to understand the "why" behind a brief and translate it into clear visual choices.
• Incorporate feedback rooted in strategic intent, not just aesthetic preference.
• Help identify opportunities to improve an edit based on what's worked in past campaigns.
• Edit specifically for the platform: correct specs, safe zones, captions/subtitles, and native creative conventions for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
• Stay current on platform trends, formats, and editing styles that are performing well in paid social right now.
• Review and edit raw creator footage into polished, on-brief assets.
• Flag gaps in creator-submitted footage that may limit what's possible in the edit, and help problem-solve around them.
• Work closely with creative strategists, brand, and other editors in a fast-paced, iterative production cycle.
• Take structured feedback well and turn revisions around quickly without losing craft.
• Organize and manage project files, versions, and exports so work is easy to hand off and track.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match
• Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
• Traditional 401k with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays
• Professional development stipends
• Mental health resources
• 1:1 financial planners
• Fertility healthcare
• 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave
• Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities
• Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours
• Employee resource groups

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed