[Hiring] Senior Editor/Designer @Hire Emerald

Role Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Editor/Designer who combines video editing, motion design, static design, and hands-on AI-generated content (AIGC) expertise. You'll create high-performing paid social and digital creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Shorts, and Google, working with traditional footage, UGC, client assets, and AI-generated content. AI is a core part of this role. We're specifically looking for someone who has already produced and shipped AI-generated creative for real clients or brands, not someone who is simply interested in experimenting with AI.

This is a senior hands-on production role for someone who understands both creative craft and performance.

What You'll Do

• AI Visuals & AIGC Production
  • Generate and art-direct AI visuals for paid creative, including product scenes, environments, characters, backgrounds, B-roll, hero images, and generative video.
  • Prompt, iterate, and direct across image and video generation models to achieve specific creative briefs.
  • Work with tools such as Gemini/Nano Banana, Sora, Veo 3, Midjourney, Flux, Runway, Kling, Arcads, ElevenLabs, and similar emerging platforms.
  • Build AI-assisted UGC and spokesperson creative, evaluating when synthetic talent is appropriate versus real creator footage.
  • Combine generative and traditional workflows using techniques such as generative fill, extension, upscaling, restoration, relighting, lip-sync, dubbing, AI voiceover, and automated captioning.
  • Maintain character, product, style, and brand consistency across AI-generated campaigns.
  • Identify artifacts, anatomy or text errors, unnatural motion, and off-brand outputs before assets reach clients.
  • Build prompt libraries, templates, and repeatable AI workflows while evaluating new creative tools as they emerge.
• Video Editing & Motion Design
  • Edit performance creative for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Shorts, and Google.
  • Work with client-provided footage, UGC, produced assets, libraries, and AI-generated content.
  • Execute complete post-production workflows including cutting, pacing, sound design, music selection, basic color, captions, resizing, formatting, and export.
  • Build performance-focused edits with strong attention to hooks, pacing, safe areas, messaging, and platform requirements.
  • Create motion graphics, animated typography, transitions, product callouts, end cards, GIFs, and other graphic systems.
  • Transform static concepts into dynamic animated executions.
• Static Design & Visual Craft
  • Design high-quality paid ads, social graphics, and digital placements.
  • Apply strong layout, typography, composition, hierarchy, and visual storytelling.
  • Adapt creative across different formats, placements, and aspect ratios.
  • Execute both polished brand creative and faster performance-driven content depending on campaign needs.
• Creative Execution & Optimization
  • Translate briefs, scripts, concepts, references, and Art Director guidance into compelling creative output.
  • Contribute ideas while executing against established creative strategy.
  • Produce multiple creative variations for A/B testing, optimization, and creative refreshes.
  • Apply campaign performance insights to hooks, pacing, layouts, structures, and visual treatments.
  • Incorporate feedback from creative leads, strategists, media teams, and clients.
  • Maintain accurate versioning across multiple campaigns and accounts.
• Brand Quality & Creative Systems
  • Ensure creative follows client guidelines across color, typography, imagery, motion, voice, and AI-generated elements.
  • Maintain organized project files, footage, templates, AI generations, and exports.
  • Establish and maintain a high quality bar for AI-generated and hybrid creative.
  • Identify production bottlenecks and recommend better workflows, tools, or templates.
  • Support scalable creative systems and best practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of experience in video editing, motion design, post-production, graphic design, or performance creative within an agency, brand, or performance marketing environment.
• Meaningful professional experience across both video and static creative.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience producing AI-generated visuals and AIGC for real client or brand work, supported by portfolio examples.
• Working fluency with current image, video, and voice generation tools such as Gemini/Nano Banana, Sora, Veo 3, Midjourney, Flux, Runway, Kling, Arcads, ElevenLabs, or similar tools.
• Strong AI prompting and iteration skills, including techniques for maintaining character, product, and visual consistency.
• Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• Proficiency in Figma, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Strong experience with paid social, digital advertising, UGC-style creative, and short-form video.
• Strong understanding of layout, typography, visual hierarchy, and composition.
• Understanding of platform-specific creative best practices across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
• Ability to manage multiple clients, deadlines, and feedback rounds simultaneously.
• Strong file organization and asset management skills.
• Familiarity with A/B testing workflows and structured creative variations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in performance marketing or direct-response creative.
• Experience with creator-led and lo-fi content alongside polished brand creative.
• Familiarity with synthetic media disclosure requirements and platform policies for AI-generated content.
• Exposure to additional channels such as email, landing pages, or CTV.

Ideal Candidate

• You're a genuinely hybrid creative: equally comfortable editing in Premiere and After Effects as you are designing in Photoshop and Figma.
• You've already created real paid advertising with generative AI and can explain which tools you used, why you selected them, how you iterated, and how the final creative was produced.
• You treat AI as a creative craft tool rather than a shortcut. You understand its limitations, recognize poor-quality output, and know how to combine AI with traditional production when necessary.
• You also understand performance creative: hooks, pacing, platform-native execution, testing, iteration, and results matter as much as visual quality.

How Success Is Measured

• Consistently strong creative quality across video, motion, static, and AI-generated assets.
• Effective production of AI-generated content that meets brand and campaign standards.
• Creative that is optimized for the requirements of each advertising platform.
• Efficient execution, iteration, and versioning across multiple campaigns.
• Strong application of performance insights to future creative.
• Organized, scalable AI and post-production workflows.
• Reliable execution across multiple clients and deadlines.

Why Join Us?

• Work at the intersection of performance creative, design, video, and generative AI.
• Produce real AI-powered advertising rather than experimental or conceptual work.
• Work across leading social and digital advertising platforms.
• Help define AI creative workflows, quality standards, and best practices.
• Experiment with emerging image, video, and voice generation technologies.
• Have meaningful creative ownership while collaborating closely with Art Direction and performance teams.

Important Notes

• A strong portfolio is required.
• Your portfolio should demonstrate professional experience across video and static creative.
• Candidates must be able to demonstrate real AIGC/AI-generated creative produced for client or brand work.
• Candidates should be prepared to discuss their AI workflow, including prompting, iteration, tool selection, quality control, and final production.
• This is a hands-on creative production role, not solely a creative strategy or management position.
• This is a fully remote (telecommute) position.