Senior Social Content Creator

🌎 Where: Remote from a North America State

🤝 Type: Full time salaried role

🚀 Join Us at Social Element! 🌟

Founded 22 years ago, we're a leading, global and independent full-service social media agency with a team of over 260 members.  From Mondelez to Diageo to Dr Pepper, we are trusted partners to some of the world's largest brands.

Our winning formula? Building strong client relationships to become the voice of their brand on social media.

Why us? We believe in the power of Genuine Human Connection to drive brand growth, trust, and loyalty. Social media is our foundation, where we give brands the tools to emotionally engage with their audience like never before.

Now, we're on the lookout for a Senior Social Content Creator to join our Social Innovation North American  team! 💼

👊 The Opportunity

We're seeking a talented Senior Social Content Creator to join our North American team at Social Element. In this role you’ll create, design and deliver socially-native content for a variety of clients, driving engagement with the brand’s community.

📅  What You’ll Do

As Senior Social Content Creator, you’ll be in charge of ideating and creating social first content for a variety of clients from short-form video, to GIF, to meme content and photos. The perfect fit for this role will be obsessed with social culture and have a proven track record of creating content that hits on business goals while also driving audience interest. You’ll have a background in creating TikToks, Reels, and Shorts as well as animated GIFs and still content.

This remote role is a great fit for someone who is organized, creative, and ready to drive innovative social ideas, all from your own home. You will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of social asset creation as well as mentoring and collaborating with others.

• Day-to-day creation of on-trend and highly shareable social content that drives engagement and connection with the brand's community. Includes stills, GIFs, and short-form video (ex. Reels and TikTok). Experience editing and shooting video and stills is a must.
• Identifying and capitalizing on real-time cultural opportunities, turning them into social-first content for named brands.
• Supporting your content recommendations through strong written, editing, presentation, and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of social strategy and proven track record partnering with strategists to create content that achieves client’s goals.
• Leading ideation and presenting content ideas to clients that push boundaries and sell-in new ideas.
• Regularly leading and contributing to brainstorms for clients and new business
• Staying current with social platforms trends capabilities and offerings(including TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, X, Facebook, Reddit, and whatever comes next.)
• Creating and guiding content based on client fit and brand safety as strongly as cultural opportunity.

About You 👇

• Avid and passionate social media user with an interest and curiosity in internet culture.
• Advanced applied knowledge of capturing content including lighting, equipment usage, and sound quality
• Conceptual thinker with the ability to shoot and edit GIF, still, and short form video content(ex. TikTok and Reels)
• Expert in graphic design and video editing, capturing video with a DSLR camera or mobile device.
• Solid foundation in photography, video, typography, graphic design, motion graphics, layout. Illustration skills are a plus.
• Confident in pitching content ideas to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Excitement to learn and collaborate with internal team members.
• Take pride in what we do, what we create, in Social Element and in our community.
• Naturally inclusive, collaborative and with a positive can-do attitude.
• Proven experience including a portfolio of social-first work.
• Strong interest and understanding of social media and pop culture.
• Strong creative eye for content native to each social platform and a working knowledge of social platform audiences.
• Proven track record with recording content on DSLR and/or mobile camera as well as editing with traditional and app-based tools.
• Deep knowledge of digital and social media platforms, staying well informed of platform updates.
• Experience implementing social strategies and creating dynamic work that delivers on strategy briefs.
• Background in one or more of the following: native social media content creation and graphic, digital design.
• Photography and video editing experience are a must. Illustration and graphic design skills are a plus.
• Experience creating for and using social platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

Please note these benefits are US employees only.

🏠 100% Remote working

🌞 36 days of holiday (including the bank holidays) Increasing with length of service up to a maximum of 36 days PTO.

🎂 Birthday off

🐕‍🦺 Annual Occasion Day off for an important event (such as helping a new pet settle, your wedding or moving home)

🙏 1 Volunteer day off

😷 Paid Sick time off

⚕️ Group Insurance Medical plans with generous employer contribution, including one plan that is employer covered

🤓 Dental and Vision plans

🏦 FSA & HSA Options, with employer contribution to HSA on select plans

👴🏽👵 401k with employer matching🌡️ Employer Paid Long-Term/Short-Term Disability

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Enhanced family friendly policies

😴 Career Break: After 1 year's service, can take between 4 weeks and 1 year unpaid leave.

👩‍⚕️ Wellbeing Support

🏖️ Flexible Fridays (Working half day)

The Social Element Values

Work according to the company values

Do it Well 💪

Be One Team 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Do the Right Thing ✔️

Keep Pioneering 💡

Make Them Smile 😃

Our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Commitment

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our recruitment process is fair, transparent and based on merit, skill and experience related to the role. We welcome applications from diverse and under-represented groups regardless of their background.

We value having divergent thinkers who bring various experiences and viewpoints to the table at The Social Element. We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups to apply.

We are also able to make reasonable adjustments throughout the full recruitment process so we invite you to identify any additional support that you may require to ensure you are supported throughout the full process.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so even if you feel you don’t fulfil all the requirements, we encourage you to still apply — we’d love to hear from you! 🙂

The Hiring Process

​The hiring process for this position will be made up of the  following stages:

*�️ Portfolio -  we want to see both professional and personal work so don’t be afraid to show us what you want to be creating and what you are capable of!

 🤝 Initial Call with one of Talent Team.

✨ First  Interview with a Social Innovation Team Member including the VP

📜 Assignment

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Final Interview with VP Social Innovation and other members of the Social Innovation Team

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