Responsibilities

• Concept Social-First Ideas: Generate a steady stream of original, quick-hit concepts, recurring formats, sketches, and cultural responses built for how people actually watch and share content on social.
• Own Creative Development: Own a meaningful share of creative development — turning briefs, cultural observations, and platform behaviors into strong concepts; leading ideas from the initial spark through sell-in; and partnering with other creatives to strengthen the work.
• Own End-to-End Creation: Take ideas from concept through completion, including scripting or outlining, storyboarding, casting, talent briefs, location scouting, props, lean production planning, camera, sound, lighting, directing, editing, finishing, and final delivery.
• Shoot and Edit Independently: Operate compact camera or phone-based production setups and edit your own work with a strong command of hooks, pacing, comedic timing, music, graphics, transitions, and platform-native editorial techniques. Use in-camera tricks, practical effects, match cuts, seamless transitions, visual gags, and other edit-driven techniques to make simple ideas feel surprising, polished, and native to social.
• Create Sketch and Creator-Led Content: Develop and execute social-native comedy, character, reaction, interview, day-in-the-life, and other personality-forward formats without making the work feel overproduced or overly scripted.
• Direct Talent and Real People: Cast and effectively direct actors, creators, employees, event attendees, or non-professional participants, shaping performances and interactions that feel natural, specific, and entertaining.
• Capture Events and Cultural Moments: Identify the story while it is happening, capture strong footage and interactions in real time, and turn around timely edits, recaps, and social cutdowns efficiently.
• Translate Brand Needs into Entertainment: Respond to briefs and strategic goals with content people would choose to watch, balancing product or brand messaging with a clear hook and a rewarding idea.
• Stay Native to the Platforms: Keep pace with emerging formats, memes, creator behaviors, and editorial styles, using trends selectively when they create a credible role for the brand.
• Present, Iterate, and Deliver: Share ideas and work with internal and client teams, absorb feedback without losing the throughline, and manage multiple pieces of content through tight timelines and changing production needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience creating social video, branded content, digital comedy, creator-led work, or an equivalent portfolio that demonstrates the same depth of ability.
• Must be Los Angeles-based or within a commutable distance. New York-based candidates will also be considered.
• A strong portfolio that clearly shows your personal role in concepting, shooting, directing, and editing short-form content, including work built around inventive camera techniques, visual tricks, transitions, and edit-led ideas.
• Chronically online, fluent in the microtrends, behaviors, language, and nuances of Organic social — and an understanding of how a brand should show up on social in ways that their audience welcomes and enjoys.
• Strong conceptual instincts and the ability to generate multiple ideas quickly in response to a brief, cultural moment, or platform behavior.
• Fluency in short-form storytelling, including hooks, pacing, comedic or performance timing, and the difference between content made for social and content merely resized for social.
• Proficiency operating compact camera systems or phones, recording clean audio, and creating polished results with basic lighting and lean resources.
• Advanced proficiency in editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro or an equivalent platform, with the motion, effects, and problem-solving skills to execute trick shots, visual transitions, practical effects, and other editorial techniques independently.
• Experience self-producing small shoots, including practical logistics such as casting, props, locations, releases, schedules, and file management.
• Demonstrated ability to direct actors, creators, and non-professional talent while keeping performances natural and platform-appropriate.

Preferred

• Comfort appearing on camera occasionally when the idea benefits from it.
• Experience writing or directing comedy, sketches, improv, character work, or other performance-led formats.
• Experience with event capture, creator interviews, man-on-the-street content, or real-time social coverage.
• Advanced motion graphics, animation, compositing, or sound-design skills.
• Experience creating both organic and paid social content for established brands.

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)