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

Location: US
Workplace: Remote solely

About this role

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.

\nYour 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

Scope: A typical project contains 2-4 scripts with various hooks.
Style: Mostly voiceover-driven content (generated via ElevenLabs).
Workload: Currently 2-4 projects per week, and actively growing.

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! ✨

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