Performance Video Editor

The role

You will own paid social video editing from concept through delivery. You will work with Marketing to develop, test, and iterate on video ads for platforms like Meta and YouTube.

What you will do

• Own paid social video editing from concept and creative development through iteration, finishing, and delivery.
• Develop compelling hooks, narrative structures, visual pattern interrupts, and creative angles.
• Work with Marketing to understand campaign performance and turn insights into new concepts.
• Transform raw footage, interviews, testimonials, and product demonstrations into high-performing ads.
• Produce creative variations by testing different hooks, messages, formats, pacing, and storytelling.
• Bring craft to every edit including sound design, motion graphics, typography, color, and finishing.
• Proactively pitch new creative concepts and challenge existing approaches.
• Partner with the senior creative content producer and broader creative team.
• Occasionally capture supplemental footage using an iPhone or Canon camera system.
• Maintain organized project files, footage, and reusable assets.

Required qualifications

• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional paid social video editing, particularly direct-response or customer-acquisition advertising.
• Proven experience creating performance creative for platforms such as Meta, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
• Deep understanding of hooks, pacing, retention, storytelling, creative testing, and conversion-focused messaging.
• Ability to explain creative decisions, interpret performance feedback, and apply learnings to future ads.
• Advanced proficiency in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
• Motion graphics skills in After Effects or comparable tools.
• Exceptional visual instincts, sound design sensibility, and attention to detail.
• Experience turning limited footage or loose briefs into multiple creative directions without extensive oversight.
• Comfort working closely with performance marketers and responding to campaign results and shifting priorities.
• Ability to balance creative quality with high output and fast turnaround times.
• Willingness to be hands-on and occasionally capture simple footage.

About the company

Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization by deploying a network of distributed batteries. They are engineers, operators, and creatives solving complex, interdisciplinary challenges.