Responsibilities

• Create, edit, and publish social-first video content, including short-form clips, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, product explainers, training videos, event recaps, and trend-based content.
• Support the planning and management of the social media calendar across priority platforms.
• Film and produce lightweight video content using smartphones, cameras, microphones, lighting, and basic production tools.
• Edit videos for multiple formats and platforms, including captions, motion graphics, thumbnails, hooks, transitions, music, and platform-specific aspect ratios.
• Audit and revitalize Algolia's YouTube channel — assess what’s currently there, identify gaps and opportunities, and build a content plan to grow it.
• Write social copy that is clear, engaging, brand-appropriate, and tailored to each channel.
• Monitor social trends, platform updates, memes, creator formats, and competitor activity to identify relevant content opportunities.
• Engage with audiences by monitoring comments, messages, mentions, and community conversations.
• Track content performance and prepare basic reporting on metrics such as reach, engagement, views, watch time, follower growth, and top-performing posts.
• Repurpose long-form, educational content from the Algolia Academy team into short, promotional, platform-ready video and social content.

Requirements

• 1+ years of hands-on video production experience (school, internship, freelance, or professional) — this is the core requirement. Social media experience alone, without video production skill, is not a fit for this role.
• Based in or near New York or Boston, or otherwise able to work Eastern time zone hours. Boston/NYC strongly preferred for in-person video production and team collaboration.
• Strong video editing skills, especially for short-form social content.
• Experience with tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Canva, Photoshop, or similar platforms.
• A good sense of humor, genuine curiosity, and a willingness to experiment and go against the norm.
• Comfortable navigating a first-of-its-kind role with no established playbook, tenacious about asking questions and building processes as you go.
• A good eye for pacing, storytelling, framing, sound, captions, and visual polish.
• Strong understanding of TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts, and other major social platforms.
• Ability to write concise, engaging social copy.
• Comfortable filming content, directing simple shoots, and working with non-professional talent.

Preferred

• Experience creating content for B2B, technology, lifestyle, media, or consumer brands.
• Basic motion graphics or animation skills.
• Experience with social media scheduling and analytics tools such as Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Later, Buffer, HubSpot, or native platform analytics.
• Photography skills.
• Experience supporting live events, webinars, launches, or executive social content.
• Familiarity with paid social creative best practices.

Benefits

• Flexible workplace strategy
• Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.