Video Editor for Creator/UGC Ads (Meta, 9:16) — Part-Time, Long-Term, Day Shift

ABOUT US

We are a pet supplement brand launching in Australia. Dog health. We run paid ads on Meta. Our brand is built on being honest: no fake urgency, no fake before-and-after, no medical claims. Our ads look like real dog owners talking, not like commercials.

Our team works from the Netherlands. We sell into Australia. For you that means two things. First, your hours are flexible - editing is async work and we do not need you online at a fixed time. No graveyard shift, no fixed shift at all. What we need is a reply within 24 hours and deadlines that hold. Second, our ads have to sound Australian, and that is the one thing we are strict about.

We want ONE editor to grow with us. Start small, scale as we scale.

WHAT YOU WILL EDIT

Creator footage. Real Australian dog owners film their own dogs on their phones and send us the raw clips. You turn that into ads. You will never be asked to shoot anything, write anything, or generate anything.

Three types, all 9:16 vertical.

1) TOF (cold audience), 15-30 seconds

• Native, phone-shot feel. NOT a polished commercial
• Hook in the first 3 seconds. No logo intro, no brand animation
• Fast cuts, every 2-3 seconds. Lots of dog b-roll
• Important: these ads never show or name the product
• Goal: stop the scroll

2) MOF (warm audience), 45-120 seconds

• Mechanism explainers, comparisons, testimonials
• Slower cuts, every 4-6 seconds
• On-screen text overlays, simple graphics, side-by-side layouts
• Goal: handle objections and build trust

3) BOF (ready to buy), 15-40 seconds - later in the project

• Short, one objection each: guarantee, price per day, "will my dog even eat it"
• Usually one creator clip plus text

You get: the raw creator footage, a written script with timecodes, a hook list, reference ads and a caption spec. You do not write scripts. You edit.

WHAT WE NEED

• 2+ years editing short-form vertical ads for Meta / TikTok / Reels
• You can show ads you edited that actually RAN as paid ads
• Premiere Pro or CapCut. After Effects is a plus, not required
• You are good with messy input: phone clips at different resolutions, bad audio, vertical and horizontal mixed, no slate, no organisation. This is most of the job. Creator footage is never tidy
• You can style captions properly (see our spec below)
• You deliver 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1 exports
• You can cut 5 hook variations on the same body edit. Same video, five different first-3-seconds, five files. This is our main workflow, not an occasional request
• Good written English. You reply within 24 hours
• Reliable internet, you meet deadlines

ONE THING WE WILL NOT DO

We do not fake results. No stitched-together before-and-afters that imply a change that did not happen, no borrowed footage passed off as our customers, no invented testimonials. Our brand is built on not misleading people, and that rule is not flexible. If a brief ever seems to cross it, say so - we will thank you.

ONE THING THAT MATTERS

Our ads are Australian. The captions say "mum", not "mom". "Kilos", not "pounds". Getting this wrong is the fastest way to fail the test project.

CAPTIONS - OUR SPEC

• Phrase-level. No word-by-word pop, no bounce, no karaoke highlight. Our audience is 35-65, reading at night. Calm and large beats trendy
• Heavy geometric sans (Montserrat ExtraBold / Poppins Bold / Inter Black). Not the CapCut default font
• ~72px, max 4 words per card, never 3 lines
• All text between y=420 and y=1420 on a 1080x1920 canvas
• White with a 5px black stroke, or a dark plate. Half our footage is a dog in Australian sun and white-on-bright is unreadable
• One highlighted word per card, maximum
• Deliver burned-in AND a separate .srt

NICE TO HAVE

• Pet, health or supplement brand experience
• You have cut UGC or creator content before, not just brand video
• Basic motion graphics
• Light audio cleanup (creator phone audio is often rough)

THE ROLE AND THE PAY

• $6 USD per hour
• Part-time to start: roughly 10-15 hours a week, growing if it goes well
• Flexible hours. No fixed shift. We work from the Netherlands, so we are not going to ask you to be online at 3am for a call
• We agree a time budget per video before you start it - for example "this one should be around 2.5 hours". If you are going to go over, message us first. We are reasonable about it. We just do not want surprises on either side
• Paid weekly. Always on time

HOW WE WORK

• Paid test project first: 1 video, we pay $25, whether we continue or not
• If it works: 10 videos over 3 weeks, with written feedback after each one
• If that works: ongoing, growing hours, and a rate review after 3 months
• We give specific feedback, never "make it better"

HOW TO APPLY

Send a message with:

1. The words BLUE DOG as the first line (applications without this are deleted - we only work with people who read)
2. 3 links to short-form ADS you edited. Paid social ads, not weddings, not vlogs, not YouTube intros
3. For ONE of those links: 2 sentences on why the first 3 seconds work
4. Honestly: how many hours does one 25-second UGC ad take you, from raw creator clips to final export with captions? We are not testing for the smallest number. We want to know you know your own pace
5. Your hourly rate in USD, and how many hours a week you can commit

We reply to everyone who follows these five steps.