DTC Performance Video Editor AI-First (Freelance)
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A contract video editor who owns moving image for DTC/e-commerce performance ads, editing and producing conversion-focused video creatives using AI tools and finishing with Premiere Pro + After Effects.
About this role
We are agencro, a CRO and direct-response agency for e-commerce brands: advertorials, landing pages, online shops and email for our clients - plus our own brands, where we also run paid ads ourselves.
We work AI-first: AI produces the volume, a small team with real taste directs and finishes it. Small remote team, short paths, your work goes live fast.
The ads for our own brands and the visuals on our client pages win or lose on creative: hooks, retention, clarity. Right now that sits with us. We want one person who owns moving image.
This is not a "make it look nice" editing role. Every ad and every graphic you ship exists to convert.
Tasks
- Edit performance video ads for our own brands: UGC ads, AI-generated creatives, VSL-style videos and testimonial cuts for Meta, TikTok and paid social - going into real spend.
- Build strong hooks: retention-focused edits, platform-native pacing, captions and variants of the first three seconds.
- Motion and conversion graphics for client projects: animated sections, GIFs and conversion visuals for advertorials, online shops, landing pages and email.
- Produce with AI as the engine: AI video and image tools (e.g. Kling, Runway, Nano Banana, Veo or similar) are your primary production line for footage, b-roll and variants.
- Finish with craft: you know when AI output is not good enough and you fix it - cut, timing, sound, brand-fit (Premiere/After Effects or equivalent).
Requirements
What winning looks like
- Your creatives perform in real campaigns.
- Hook Rate, CTR, CPA and watch time move because of your work.
- Fast turnaround and clean iteration cycles: brief in, first cut out, feedback, ship.
Who we're NOT looking for
- Brand-awareness editors. Our ads and pages have to convert.
- AI sceptics. AI tools are the production engine here, not a gimmick.
- People who need a lot of hand-holding. You get a brief and an angle, then you own it.
- Slow perfectionists. We iterate in live campaigns.
Who we ARE looking for
- You understand direct-response video: hooks, retention, pacing, conversion psychology.
- You already produce with AI video tools and keep up with the toolset.
- You have real craft on top: Premiere Pro + After Effects or equivalent, used to elevate AI output.
- DTC/e-commerce creative experience is a plus.
- Fast, reliable, self-managing, proactive communicator.
Benefits
In return for these skills, you'll work in a team of young, driven people, structure your day the way you want, work from wherever you want, and get challenged every single day.
You'll get to see a wide range of e-commerce projects - from health and beauty to fitness and fashion - and gain an incredibly deep look into the world of online marketing.
Instead of sitting on one thing for weeks, your tasks change from day to day, so you'll never get bored. There's always a challenge to solve, a project to push or a process to improve.
How to apply
- Send 3-5 examples of ads you did with AI - with a sentence on what you did and which tools (including AI) you used.
- One short paragraph: your AI workflow today - which tools, for what.
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