Performance Creative Editor (Contract)

About the role

A direct-to-consumer mushroom coffee business that grows through paid ads on Meta and Google needs a performance creative editor. The strategist writes the scripts and owns the angle; you own the execution, especially the first five seconds. You will ship 15 to 25 finished ads a month, with a focus on iterating winning hooks rather than producing many variants.

Key responsibilities

• Cut paid ads for Meta and Google from scripts and angles provided by a strategist: vertical, sound-on, short and fast-paced.
• Own the hook: the first five seconds, learning the firm views on which openers work and arguing when one is wrong.
• Iterate winners and build variants that change one thing on purpose.
• Read your own numbers using creative analytics and attribution tools, and bring insights to the weekly creative review.

Required profile

• Three or more years cutting ads that ran on a paid account; the employer cares about what you have shipped, not your title.
• Experience with paid ads as the main part of your work, and a performance number you personally moved on a specific piece of creative.
• Knowledge of which metrics matter (spend and acquisition cost in the first week) and which mislead.
• Fluent use of generative AI tools for images, video, voice, upscaling, captions and reframing, with output that looks human.
• English good enough to argue with a media buyer about a hook.
• Your own reliable machine, internet and quiet place to take calls.
• Preferred: experience in supplements, wellness, beverage, beauty or DTC subscription, and familiarity with direct-response formats such as offer-led, objection and confession openers, and one person talking to camera.

Required skills

• Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve to a professional standard, plus After Effects or CapCut.
• Cutting from creator and UGC footage, including turning mediocre raw material into working ads.
• Preferred: creative analytics tools such as Motion, Triple Whale or Northbeam.

What we offer

• Ongoing independent contractor position, invoiced monthly, remote from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile or Uruguay.
• Software seats (Adobe CC, Motion, Frame.io) and all footage and assets; you provide your own equipment.
• 2-3 hours of daily overlap with Austin, Texas, chosen by you; full-time equivalent effort.