Performance Video Editor | DTC Paid Social

Remote | Full-Time

About Dominate Next

Dominate Next is a performance marketing agency based in Scotland, helping ambitious DTC ecommerce brands grow through Meta advertising and performance creative.

We work across the UK, US, Europe and Australia, producing and testing creative for brands across food and drink, beauty, health, lifestyle, and more.

We're looking for an experienced Performance Video Editor to join our creative team full-time.

This is not a general video editing role.

We're looking for someone who already understands how to turn raw UGC, creator footage and existing brand assets into paid social ads designed to hold attention and drive action.

What You'll Do

You'll work closely with our Creative Strategists, who provide the concepts, scripts, briefs and raw assets.

Your job is to turn those ingredients into strong ads ready to be tested in live Meta ad accounts.

You'll be responsible for:

• Editing UGC and creator-led ads for Meta and other short-form platforms
• Producing mashups, founder ads, product-led ads and creative variations
• Improving hooks, pacing, retention and clarity
• Selecting the right B-roll and visuals to support the messaging
• Adding captions, on-screen text, music, sound design and light motion where appropriate
• Repurposing strong footage into new variations and angles
• Using your own judgement rather than waiting for every editing decision to be prescribed
• Working across multiple ecommerce brands and adapting your style to each one
• Taking feedback quickly and improving creative through iteration
• Using performance learnings to understand what is actually working

You'll typically produce around 15 finished ad concepts per week, depending on complexity.

We care about both quality and creative velocity.

What We're Looking For

You should already have experience editing DTC ecommerce ads, UGC ads or other direct-response paid social creative.

You'll likely be a strong fit if you have:

• 2+ years of relevant video editing experience
• A strong portfolio containing real paid social or UGC ads
• Strong understanding of hooks, pacing, retention and short-form storytelling
• Experience creating ads for Meta, TikTok or similar platforms
• Strong attention to detail across captions, spelling, audio and framing
• Strong written and spoken English
• The ability to work independently from a creative brief
• Experience creating multiple variations from the same footage
• Experience working across multiple brands
• Reliable communication and strong organisation

Our primary editing workflow is CapCut, so you should be highly proficient with it or comfortable working primarily within CapCut.

Experience with any of the following is a bonus:

• Premiere Pro
• After Effects
• Higgsfield or other AI video tools
• Motion graphics
• Foreplay or Meta Ad Library
• ClickUp
• Creative performance data

You'll Probably Enjoy This Role If:

• You understand why the first few seconds of an ad matter
• You naturally remove anything that makes an edit drag
• You know when UGC has become too polished and stopped feeling native
• You can make average raw footage significantly better
• You think about the objective of the ad, not just how the timeline looks
• You enjoy testing different versions of creative
• You want to see how your work performs in real ad accounts
• You want to become exceptionally good at performance creative

The Setup

• Full-time remote contractor engagement
• 37.5 hours per week
• Flexible working hours
• Some overlap with UK working hours required for communication and meetings
• Long-term engagement
• Regular performance and compensation reviews
• Clear opportunities to take on greater responsibility as the creative team grows

Compensation

• $1,000 to $1,500 USD / month, depending on experience

Plus:

• Performance-based bonuses
• Regular compensation reviews
• Opportunities for increased responsibility and progression

How To Apply

• Apply directly through LinkedIn and include a link to your portfolio.
• Your portfolio must contain examples of UGC, DTC ecommerce or paid social advertising work that you personally edited.
• When applying, please make it clear what you personally contributed to the work shown.
• Generic YouTube edits, podcasts, cinematic reels or aesthetic social content alone are not relevant for this position.
• If your portfolio is strong, the next stage will be a short paid editing test using a realistic creative brief and raw footage.