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Compensation
- Salary period
- unclear
Benefits
- Ongoing freelance / retainer arrangement
- Flexible working setup
- Potential pathway to a permanent in-house role over time
Tech stack
Required
Nice to have
Location
Wilmington, Wilmington, England, United Kingdom
Work setup
- Employment
- freelance / contractor
- Level
- Senior
- Remote policy
- Remote (Remote OK, Work arrangement: Remote). Location: UK- or US-based preferred. Working hours: UK 9am–5pm; US 8am–4pm (local time).
- Remote scope
- timezone-limited
- Timezones
- UK: 9am–5pm (local time), US: 8am–4pm (local time)
Role details
Responsibilities
- Support Forbes Advisor’s growing short-form content operation as a Freelance Video Editor on an ongoing retainer basis
- Produce high-volume short-form social content for Meta and TikTok with strong pacing, hooks, retention, and storytelling
- Create platform-native content for social-first environments
- Collaborate in an iterative workflow where creative is regularly tested and refined
- Edit batches of short-form videos (most approximately 30 seconds) according to production cadence
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional video editing
- Strong experience editing for Meta (Facebook/Instagram)
- Strong experience editing for TikTok
- Strong understanding of hooks and retention
- Strong understanding of platform-native pacing
- Captions/subtitles experience
- UGC-style editing experience
- Social-first storytelling
- Creative testing workflows experience
- Comfort working in a collaborative, iterative workflow
- Availability (days/week) and preferred rate structure to apply
Application
Please send Portfolio or examples of relevant short-form work, examples of Meta/TikTok creative you’ve edited, a short summary of your experience with social-first editing, your availability (days/week), and your preferred rate structure. Please mention the word **FASHIONABLY** and tag RMTA5LjcwLjEwMC4xNQ== when applying to show you read the job post completely.
- Portfolio
- required
- GitHub
- not required
- Cover letter
- not required
- Apply flow
- ats
Company context
help readers turn their aspirations into reality by arming them with trusted advice and guidance so they can make informed decisions
- Product
- Short-form social content production (creative strategy and content for consumer finance topics)
- Industry
- unclear
Description
At Forbes Advisor, our mission is to help readers turn their aspirations into reality by providing trusted advice and guidance. We are looking for a Freelance Video Editor to support our growing short-form content operation on an ongoing retainer basis. Role: Produce high-volume short-form social content focused on fast-moving, performance-oriented creative. Create platform-native content with strong pacing, hooks, retention, and storytelling for social-first environments. Work in a collaborative, iterative workflow where creative is regularly tested and refined. Initially expect up to 4 days per week (flexible depending on workflow and fit). You will work directly with the Head of Creative Strategy and a team of Creative Strategists. Start date: ASAP (ideally before end of June). Contract structure: ongoing freelance / retainer arrangement. Location: UK- or US-based preferred. Working hours: UK 9am–5pm; US 8am–4pm (local time). Expected output: Approximately 4 batches of content per week; each batch contains roughly 5 short-form edits; most edits approximately 30 seconds in length. Output expectations are flexible while workflows and creative processes are established. Required experience: 5+ years of professional video editing; strong experience editing for Meta (Facebook/Instagram) and TikTok and other short-form social platforms; strong understanding of hooks and retention, platform-native pacing, captions/subtitles, UGC-style editing, social-first storytelling, and creative testing workflows; experience with performance marketing or direct-response creative is a plus. Tools & workflow: Adobe Premiere Pro. Nice to have: AI-assisted creative workflows; familiarity with ElevenLabs and Veo 3; experience generating AI video assets; comfort experimenting with emerging AI creative tools and workflows (Forbes Advisor will provide access to relevant AI video generation tools where needed). Engagement structure: Freelance / contractor basis; ongoing retainer arrangement; flexible working setup; potential pathway to a permanent in-house role over time.
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