Automotive Content Creator & Editor
Richmond, Darlington, UK (Hybrid)
Posted 1 day ago
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Job Summary
Own and steer Cazoo's automotive video and written content from concept to publication, shaping platform-first narratives and editorial authority.
- Lead end-to-end video, written content & SEO initiatives across blogs, pages and social
- Collaborate with OEMs, events and PR to amplify storytelling
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Video & social: Own automotive video end to end, concept, brief, production, sign-off, then hand off to the Social Media Manager for publishing and analysis
- Create story-led content with real cultural relevance, not brand-safe filler
- Lead platform-first ideas for TikTok and YouTube that build communities people actually want to follow, not just fill a schedule
- Give creative direction on edits, visuals, music and animation, and sign off on quality
- Build content-led campaigns with one clear narrative running across every platform
- Appear on camera as Cazoo's automotive expert
- Work with new car OEMs and our commercial team to create review content
- Get out to automotive events and shows to capture what's actually relevant, brief the bigger shoots, write the scripts, shape the core idea
- Written content & SEO: Write as Cazoo's named automotive expert across SEO landing pages, blogs, website copy, social, press, email and campaign materials
- Own the Cazoo blog and content hubs: strategy, articles, templates, uploads, structure, and measuring what's actually working
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience in automotive journalism, content, editing or similar
- Strong command of automotive terminology, vehicle specs and current industry trends
- A portfolio of published automotive work, with excellent writing, editing and storytelling
- Confident and credible on camera
- Working knowledge of SEO (and emerging GEO), CMS platforms, and basic photo/video editing
- A fearless self-starter who pitches boldly and isn't precious about ideas that don't land
- Able to run multiple projects to deadline, independently and collaboratively
- Experience at an automotive marketplace, dealer group, media outlet or car brand
- A track record producing short-form social content that actually gets watched
- Knowledge of EVs, emerging automotive tech, and how car buying and selling actually works
Preferred
- Are ideas-led, not budget-led, you know how to make a simple idea land hard
- Take ownership without waiting for permission
- Can defend your ideas just as hard as you're willing to kill them when the data says so
- Write copy that sounds human, confident and challenger — never corporate
- Juggle multiple formats and deadlines without dropping quality
- Are genuinely plugged into what people actually watch, share and talk about
Benefits
- We offer an annual bonus scheme or commission plans for our Commercial team.
- We more than match your commitment to your pension, so when you contribute 6% , we put in 9%, taking your total up to 15% of your base salary.
- Quarterly value-led awards with generous cash prizes.
- Referral Bonus: Recommend a colleague, get £2,000.
- Hybrid role, based in our Richmond office
- Maternity/Pregnant Parent Leave: 20 weeks at 100% pay,.
- Paternity/Non-birth Parent Leave: 12 weeks at 100% pay.
- Volunteer Days: We offer 2 volunteer days a year so you can help out wherever matters to you.
- Comprehensive cover so you (and your favourite people) have the care you need.
- AXA Private Healthcare: High-level coverage for you, partners, and dependents—including pre-existing conditions.
Cazoo
LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.
