Performance Video Editor – Contract

Skylight

Performance Video Editor for Skylight, a tech startup building family-focused products. Collaborating on high-performing ads and engaging with social media trends.

Posted 4/24/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesJunior💰 $50 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Working with our Paid Social Creative Team to cut videos into high-performing ads.
Staying entrenched in day-to-day performance results, understanding the data, and converting those insights into creative iterations.
Keeping up-to-date on trends across social media platforms and proactively proposing opportunities to the team.
Strategically and proactively adding in video elements, formats, or styles to diversify content and increase performance metrics including ROAS and thumbstop

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of experience
Experience in Adobe Premiere, with bonus points for experience in After Effects and the broader Adobe Creative Suite
Background in creating and working with high-quality user-generated content, and a portfolio to demonstrate those skills
Strong organizational and communication skills
Highly collaborative, a self-starter, and low ego
Nice to Have:
Experience creating content for our demographic: parents of younger children
Experience working on paid social in a high-growth company or agency environment
General knowledge of Figma, Notion, Adobe Suite, and Google Suite

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hours: 20 hours guaranteed with up to 40 hours per week.
Pay: $50/hr

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Hard Skills & Tools

video editingAdobe PremiereAfter Effectsuser-generated contentperformance metricsROAS

Soft Skills

organizational skillscommunication skillscollaborationself-starterlow ego

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree