Senior Short-Form Editor & Creative Strategist (AU + US Social)

We're a creative agency making culturally native social content, creator programs and performance ads for consumer brands. Small team, fast.

This isn't an edit-what-you're-told role. We need someone who can take a rough brief and a folder of raw footage and come back with a point of view - a hook, a structure, a reason it'll hold someone's thumb. Editing is the craft. Story is the job.

What you'll do

Concept and cut short-form for TikTok, Reels and paid social — UGC, creator content, mockumentary, talking head, product
Build repeatable formats a brand can run for months, not one-off trend chases
Write hooks and structure narrative arcs inside 15–60 seconds
Run hook and structure variations off winning ads, and read the data to work out why one beat the others
Bring ideas unprompted — if you think the brief is wrong, say so

Who you are

4+ years in short-form, with a background in creative strategy, social strategy or content direction — not purely post-production
Deep Premiere Pro (After Effects and CapCut useful). Craft is assumed at this level
Chronically online in both markets. You know what's happening on Australian TikTok and US TikTok, and you can explain how the humour, pacing and references differ between them
You can tell the difference between a format and a trend, and you know which one is worth building on
Strong written English, comfortable pushing back in Slack, at least 4 hours overlap with Sydney (AEST)

What we don't want
Corporate explainer editors. People who need a storyboard for everything. Anyone whose reference points stop at whatever's on the For You page this week.

How to apply

Start your message with the word HOOK.
Send 3 short-form videos you personally worked on. For each: what you did, and what the thinking was.
Send me one video from an Australian brand and one from a US brand that you think are genuinely good!