Social Media Creative

Responsibilities

• Make the Work You'll concept, design, edit, write, and publish the assets that go out every week. - Create platform-native social content, with an immediate focus on Instagram and LinkedIn. - Shape raw footage, finished work, stills, and archival material into compelling edits, carousels, stories, and other formats. - Cut behind-the-scenes material into stories that bring wider audiences into the filmmaking process - Carry our running series forward – keeping each one sharp, consistent, and improving with every installment. - Develop strong creative hooks, structures, and packaging that earn attention from people who do not already follow SMUGGLER. - Work confidently in Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and InDesign, along with any other tools that help you move quickly and make excellent work. - Write concise, intelligent copy that feels unmistakably SMUGGLER. - Maintain a high bar for design, editing, typography, pacing, and finish. Run and Grow the Accounts - You own the calendar, the posting, and the day-to-day of the channels. - Help evolve SMUGGLER's social strategy, editorial priorities, and publishing rhythm. - Build and manage the content calendar, coordinating assets, approvals, deadlines, and launches. - Package each story for the platform and audience it is meant to reach rather than treating every channel the same. - Manage publishing and community engagement across SMUGGLER's social accounts. - Stay close to changes in platform behavior, algorithms, audience habits, and emerging formats. - Test new approaches to creative, hooks, timing, and packaging, then use the results to improve the work. - Run monthly reporting for company leadership, explaining what is working, what is not, and what we should try next. - Balance growth with taste, expanding the audience without compromising the SMUGGLER brand. Extend the Brand - SMUGGLER's voice does not stop at the feed. Over time, you'll help push it into original formats, editorial ideas, and new expressions of the brand. - Keep a finger on the pulse of film culture, emerging directors, photography, art, fashion, and the wider creative world. - Identify rising creative talent and share stories, people, and ideas SMUGGLER should be paying attention to. - Help plan crafted making-of and behind-the-scenes storytelling. - Source and collaborate with behind-the-scenes directors, photographers, editors, designers, and other creative partners in major production hubs around the world. - Bring the same visual sensibility to occasional decks, editorial packages, invitations, and other brand materials when needed. - Serve the growing audience by developing new, repeatable, ownable content series – formats with their own identity, built to stand on their own. - Contribute ideas for wherever and however SMUGGLER should show up next.

Requirements

• Professional experience of at least 2-3 years
• Fluent in the language of the internet. You understand platform-native behavior, emerging formats, and why something works in one context but not another.
• Skilled in the Adobe Creative Suite. You are highly skilled in Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Preferred

• Experience running social accounts for a production company, studio, publisher, cultural brand, or creator with an established audience.
• A background in entertainment, film production, advertising, editorial, or design.
• Motion-design or animation skills, including experience with After Effects.
• Experience shooting or directing short-form content.
• Familiarity with content-management, newsletter or publishing tools.
• A personal account, publication, film, or creative project that demonstrates your taste and point of view.