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About this Performance Video Editor - Contract role at Skylight

Skylight · Remote · United States

Skylight is a technology startup building the OS of the family. We make Skylight Calendar, the smart calendar loved by millions of families (plus Wired and the Wirecutter). Our latest product is Calendar 2, which just launched to rave reviews.

Our mission is to connect loved ones by creating the world’s simplest products and services that improve family life. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs who have scaled this business to $300M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped and profitable. We get to grow a happy, healthy company focused on making products our customers love without investors breathing down our necks.


Smart, hardworking people who care about making actually meaningful products love working here. People like you. We’re busy inventing new ways to simplify family life and help parents raise great kids – and we need your help! Come invent something new with us.

A portfolio of work is required for consideration for this role, and it must contain paid Meta or TikTok ad samples.

Responsibilities:

  • Working with our Paid Social Creative Team to cut videos into high-performing ads.
  • Staying entrenched in day-to-day performance results, understanding the data, and converting those insights into creative iterations.
  • Keeping up-to-date on trends across social media platforms and proactively proposing opportunities to the team.
  • Strategically and proactively adding in video elements, formats, or styles to diversify content and increase performance metrics including ROAS and thumbstop 

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of experience
  • Experience in Adobe Premiere, with bonus points for experience in After Effects and the broader Adobe Creative Suite
  • Background in creating and working with high-quality user-generated content, and a portfolio to demonstrate those skills
  • Strong organizational and communication skills
  • Highly collaborative, a self-starter, and low ego

Nice to Have:

  • Experience creating content for our demographic: parents of younger children
  • Experience working on paid social in a high-growth company or agency environment
  • General knowledge of Figma, Notion, Adobe Suite, and Google Suite

Benefits

  • Hours: Up to 40 hours through the end of 2026.
  • Pay: $50/hr
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How this Video Editor salary compares

This role pays $104,000/yrabove the typical range for Video Editor roles.

$50,336 median $85,000 $119,600

Typical range $75,000–$104,000/yr, from 21 comparable Video Editor listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Video Editor salary insights →

About Skylight

Skylight is a technology startup based out of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Our mission is to make technology that brings families together. We make consumer products, like Skylight Frame and Skylight Calendar, that are loved by millions of people across the globe. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs, who have scaled this business to $100M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped. We think often about the millions of smiles we are able to put on our customers’ faces each day, and it fills our hearts with purpose. That’s why we have been working hard to expand our team and invent, so that we can continue to bring the magic of Skylight to millions more loved ones throughout the world.

At Skylight, we have three core principles that guide our work and help us manage the business day to day: autonomy, rigor, and care. These principles show up early and often and help guide the work we do and the way we work.

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