Editor, Paid Social - Health (Remote)

About the role

At Forbes Advisor, our mission is to help readers turn their aspirations into reality. We arm people with trusted advice and guidance so they can make informed decisions they feel confident in and get back to doing the things they care about most. We are an experienced team of industry experts dedicated to helping readers make smart decisions and choose the right products with ease. Forbes Advisor boasts decades of experience across dozens of geographies and teams, including Content, SEO, Business Intelligence, Finance, HR, Marketing, Production, Technology and Sales. The team brings rich industry knowledge to Forbes Advisor's global coverage of consumer credit, debt, health, home improvement, banking, investing, credit cards, small business, education, insurance, loans, real estate and travel.

Responsibilities

• Edit a high volume of paid social and native ads across in-person shoots, remote UGC, and AI-generated video.
• Cut across a wide range of styles, from simple UGC and social-native performance creative to elevated interview, documentary, journalistic, and graphics-driven work.
• Bring excellent editorial judgment to every cut, including story, hooks, pacing, structure, music, graphics, captions, and finish.
• Create platform-native creative for Meta, TikTok, and other short-form channels, with a strong understanding of hooks, retention, pacing, and social-first storytelling.
• Work quickly without sacrificing craft, producing the volume and creative variations performance marketing demands.
• Take creative direction and feedback and turn it into strong, finished work efficiently.
• Use performance data, testing results, and creative learnings to inform iterations and future edits.
• Collaborate closely with Creative, Production, and Post-Production to take projects from raw footage through final delivery.
• Work effectively with footage from a variety of sources and formats, including professionally shot content, remote UGC, and AI-generated assets.
• Ensure finished ads meet required legal and brand guidelines before launch.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional video editing experience, with a strong portfolio of relevant work.
• Significant experience editing paid social, direct-response, DTC, or performance creative, ideally with clear performance results behind the work.
• Demonstrated experience cutting both social-native UGC/DTC creative and elevated interview, documentary, journalistic, or editorial content.
• Excellent hands-on editing craft, with strong instincts for story, pacing, structure, music, graphics, and finish.
• Deep understanding of short-form social creative, including hooks, retention, platform-native pacing, captions, UGC-style editing, and creative testing workflows.
• Strong editorial judgment: you can quickly identify what is and isn’t working in a cut and know how to make it better.
• Comfort working at high volume and pace, managing multiple edits and iterations without dropping the quality bar.
• Working knowledge of post-production workflows, including ingest, color, media organization, and asset-management systems.
• Comfort with AI-assisted creative and editing workflows, including working with or finishing AI-generated video assets.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• A self-starter who is comfortable working in a fast-moving, evolving environment.

Skills

• Paid social or direct-response work with clear performance results and meaningful spend behind it.
• Journalism, news, documentary, or editorial experience in addition to performance marketing.
• Motion graphics or design skills in After Effects or similar tools.
• Experience generating, editing, or finishing AI-generated video to a polished, real-ad standard.
• Familiarity with current AI creative tools and asset-management systems.
• Comfort reading performance dashboards and using creative performance data to make editing decisions.