Video Editor (Short-Form & Paid Social)

About the role

Aperture, a performance marketing and advertising consultancy founded in 2022, is hiring a Video Editor to create high-performing content for its clients and itself. The role is remote-first, with work from anywhere in the UK timezone, and focuses on turning raw footage, creator content, product recordings and AI-generated assets into paid social ads and organic short-form videos.

Key responsibilities

• Edit paid social ads, UGC, creator content and short-form organic videos, adapting them for TikTok, Reels, Meta, YouTube Shorts and emerging platforms.
• Turn raw footage into compelling stories with strong hooks, pacing and structure, creating multiple versions of concepts to test openings, messages, formats and lengths.
• Add captions, music, sound design, graphics, transitions and motion, and combine AI-generated scenes with creator footage, product recordings and motion graphics.
• Experiment with generative video, image, voice and audio tools (e.g. Luma, Runway, Kling, Veo) and develop repeatable AI workflows.
• Keep up with trends, creators, sounds and memes, and share new tools and techniques with the team.
• Work with creative strategists, designers, performance marketers and creator managers, and use performance results to improve future edits.
• Keep projects, source files and versions organised across multiple accounts.

Required profile

• A strong portfolio of short-form video work, with an instinct for pacing, storytelling, timing and the visual language of TikTok, Instagram, Meta and YouTube.
• Experience editing performance ads, UGC or creator-led content is a strong advantage; social-first work matters more than a particular background.
• Already experimenting with AI creative tools and able to show examples of what you've made.
• Comfortable taking direct feedback, quick to iterate, and cares about performance, not just aesthetics.
• Ability to take inconsistent footage and find the strongest edit.

Required skills

• Confident use of Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut or similar tools.
• Understanding of how to earn attention in the first few seconds and of the difference between using a trend well and following it too late.

What we offer

• Work from anywhere, with flexible daily structure.
• Direct exposure to high-growth clients and meaningful work.
• Team meetups, retreats, conferences and events, with travel covered.
• Small team, high ownership and fast progression.

To apply, candidates share their best short-form, paid social, UGC or creator-led work (including anything enhanced with AI) and answer a few questions about what they watch and how they approach an edit.