Freelance Video Editor Performance & UGC Ads (m/f/d)

Hi, we’re Doonails ! 💅🏼 We’re a fast-growing beauty startup rethinking the world of manicure. With innovative products, a strong community and a presence in our own online shop as well as at leading retail partners, we bring studio quality straight to your home: simple, fast and stylish. And this is exactly where YOU come in. We’re looking for a freelance video editor who lives and breathes performance and UGC ads: someone who turns scripts into thumb-stopping hooks for Meta and helps us launch TikTok Shop natively in the US and DE. Your Role & Impact ⚡️ As Freelance Video Editor for Performance & UGC Ads, you take care of the whole edit from raw footage to upload-ready ad. Your hooks are what stop the scroll. Your impact is direct and measurable. You push our testing volume (more ad variants = more shots at Level-1 and Level-2 hits in our hit-rate framework), you move our thumb-stop and hold rates through stronger, more varied hooks, and you help us launch TikTok Shop natively in the US and DE. Your Core Responsibilities 👩‍💻👨‍💻 Editing - You cut 1-3 (in some cases 4-5) scripts per project with different hooks + body - mostly voice-over (generated with ElevenLabs), rarely talking-head. Around 2-4 projects per week, trending upward. Localization - You create US and DE subtitles + VO for almost every project. Clean versions - You export one clean version per project (no badges, no text). Asset management - You select footage from our content database and actively bring in fresh material to avoid visual repetition. Compliance - You name the final ads yourself, following the Doonails naming table. Workflow - You run the end-to-end workflow across ClickUp (footage/Drive), Notion (briefing) and Frame (approval - usually 2 feedback loops until upload). Proactive input - You bring your own ideas to level up creative and performance - not just working through output. What You'll Bring to the Table 🤝 - Proven track record: Proven experience editing performance/UGC ads for Meta, ideally also TikTok / TikTok Shop and Experience with VO and subtitle workflows, ideally multi-market (US + DE). - Tools: Very confident with Adobe Premiere and experience with CapCut. - Hooks: A strong eye for thumb-stopping hooks and the ability to deliver high creative variation. - Ownership: An independent, proactive way of working with strategic thinking. You bring your own performance ideas, and you’re happy to dive into an existing content/footage database and actively use new material. - Communication: Solid English is a must (for US Content), German is a strong plus. What We Offer 💖 - 💸 Competitive pay, tailored to your qualifications and experience - 🤝 A true ownership role with a high degree of trust and room to shape things your way - 📈 Growth potential: take on responsibility and bring your ideas directly to the table Ready? We can’t wait to meet you! ✨ Originally posted on Himalayas