Video Editor

Position : Video Editor

Salary : 1,800 - 2,500 NZD (Full time)

Working Hours & Conditions : 20 hours work/week and path to full time NZST

Holiday: TBD

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Premium natural dog supplements. We make joint chews from four ingredients sourced in New Zealand: deer velvet, green lipped mussel, MSM, and venison liver. No fillers, no synthetic glucosamine. Built by two brothers who watched their own dog slow down too soon. We’re growing fast in the D2C space, our content output is scaling, and we need an editor who can produce high performing D2C style ads on a consistent basis.

OVERVIEW:

You’ll edit Meta ads (Facebook and Instagram) from raw footage delivered by our UGC creators.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

You’ll usually have two ad packs landing at a time, one from each creator. Each pack contains:

• A text script document with 3 to 5 hooks, the body copy, and the CTA

• The raw A-roll

• The raw B-roll

• Access to our universal B-roll library (product shots, supporting clips)

• Sometimes a quick Loom from us with direction. Most of the time, just the pack.

Your process:

1. Read the script. Understand what the creator was briefed to deliver.

2. Review the raw A-roll and B-roll. Pencil in which clips you’ll use.

3. Cut anything that doesn’t work. Awkward delivery, obvious script-reading, off-brand wording, low energy, anything inauthentic. Flag it, note why, move on.

4. Edit three variations per ad pack. Each variation needs visual and audio variation in the hook. If the three hooks are distinct enough, you can reuse the opening visual. If they’re similar, the visuals need to differ.

5. Deliver three finished files per pack, named using our convention.

Specs Every Video Must Hit

• 9:16 aspect ratio

• Captions on every video, sized and placed inside the 4:5 safe zone

• Ends on a CTA image from our library

Tools You’ll Use

• CapCut or DaVinci Resolve

• Asana and/or Notion for project management

• AI tools for statics and B-roll where they genuinely lift the work

Who We’re Talking To:

Dog owners 45 to 70. Heavily female, roughly 65/35. They’ve owned dogs their whole lives. They’re not impressed by gimmicks. They want real people, real dogs, real reasons to believe. You need to feel that audience in your edits.

Requirements

What You Need

• 2+ years editing paid social, ideally D2C

• Strong CapCut or DaVinci Resolve

• Fluent in Western English and the way real people speak and move on camera

• A sharp eye for what’s authentic and what isn’t

• Confidence to push back when a clip isn’t working, and the reasoning to explain why

• Comfortable working from a brief without needing every step mapped out

• Up to date on current ad trends and editing techniques

• AI Image and video experience (Seedance, Higgsfield etc)

• Familiar with Asana or Notion

The Honest Bit

We care about taste. If you can’t tell the difference between a clip that feels real and one that feels staged, this isn’t the role for you. Same goes for AI B-roll: if it looks fake, it doesn’t ship. We’d rather have a tighter video than a padded one. We need someone that can produce for a brand that demands high trust. Low quality ads damage our brand. We aren’t looking for flashy editing. Refer to our ad library for clues in our style.

The Deal

Start at 20 hours/week as a paid trial. Prove the work and we’ll scale you to 40 within the month. Real seat on a small, fast-moving team.