Content Creator

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the social content engine across platform-native formats, turning briefs into lo-fi authentic assets and real-time reactions with fast turnarounds.

  • Content Creation & Production: own concepting, shooting, editing and asset adaptation for TikTok, Reels and Shorts using efficient setups.
  • Trend + Real-Time Reacts: turn cultural moments into shareable ideas that fit brand voice and audience, with quick ideation using AI assisted tools.
  • Platform Performance & Collaboration: align with publishing calendars, leverage analytics, and work with managers to maximize reach.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Concept, shoot, edit, and produce social-first content for the client across TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Stories, static, and emerging formats
  • Develop content ideas that translate the client's brand purpose and product messaging into authentic, platform-native moments that audiences relate to and want to share
  • Create lo-fi, high-impact content using a mix of smartphone, DSLR, and simple lighting and production setups, prioritising authenticity over polish
  • Storyboard and present content concepts, clearly articulating the creative idea and platform rationale
  • Stay current with social trends, viral formats, platform features, creator culture, and emerging content styles, flagging relevant opportunities to the team and translating them into content ideas for the client
  • Produce reactive and real-time content that connects the client to cultural moments and trending conversations while staying true to the brand's voice and values
  • Edit and adapt content across formats and platforms, reimagining a single shoot or asset in multiple ways to maximise reach and relevance (using Premiere Pro, CapCut, and native platform editing tools)
  • Collaborate with social media managers to align content with publishing calendars, campaign timelines, and community engagement priorities
  • Support shoots and content production involving content creators, influencers, and real people, ensuring the process is inclusive, respectful, and reflective of the client's commitment to representing real beauty
  • Experiment with new formats, techniques, and creative approaches, sharing what works and what doesn't with the wider team

Requirements

  • A portfolio demonstrating 2-4 years of social content creation, with examples of platform-native work that generated genuine audience engagement (shares, saves, comments, conversation)
  • Technical confidence across the content creation process: concepting, shooting, editing, and publishing, with comfort moving between smartphone and DSLR setups
  • Solid editing skills in Premiere Pro, Canva, CapCut, or equivalent, with the ability to adapt content across formats and platforms
  • Fluency in social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging channels), including an understanding of what performs, why, and how content is discovered and shared
  • A feel for cultural relevance, with the ability to spot trending moments, formats, and conversations and turn them into content ideas quickly
  • Experience creating content for consumer brands, with an understanding of how to communicate product or brand messages in a way that feels genuine and relatable rather than forced
  • The ability to work at social speed, managing your time and priorities to deliver quality content on tight turnarounds
  • A collaborative, proactive attitude, with a willingness to pitch in across different types of content and production needs
  • An interest in inclusive content creation, including authentic representation in casting, imagery, and storytelling
  • Professional proficiency in English; additional languages are a plus

Preferred

  • Motion graphics or animation skills (After Effects or similar)
  • Photography skills and experience with still content for social
  • Experience working with or alongside content creators and influencers
  • Familiarity with social analytics and how performance data informs creative decisions
  • Experience with accessibility in content creation (captions, alt text, inclusive design)

Benefits

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    OLIVER Agency

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    Established in 2004, we are the first and only company to exclusively design, build and run bespoke in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands. Today, we create work that delivers business growth, fame and purpose for over 300 clients in 48 countries and counting. Our unique model moves at the speed of modern business to drive change from the inside out; working smarter to make our clients’ money go further, and helping them build better solutions, systems and brands. Client solutions include Unilever’s U-Studio (a platform used by almost three-quarters of Unilever's brands globally), and adidas’ off-shore hub.We are part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which combines specialisms from Adjust Your Set (content and culture), Dare (design, experience and engineering) and Aylesworth Fleming (property marketing). IIG joined marketing technology group, The Brandtech Group (formerly known as You & Mr Jones) in January 2019 to give their clients access to the latest marketing technology solutions. The group includes tech-driven marketing companies, 55, Mofilm, Collectively, Gravity Road, Blood and Mobkoi, and holds strategic investments in leading technology businesses including Pinterest, Niantic, AI Foundation, VidMob, Jivox, Zappar, EVRYTHNG, Automat, Blacktag and Beeswax.

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