Senior Content Creator

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Content Creator for a contract role in the US, focusing on developing engaging, social-first content for platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. This role combines creative concepting, art direction, production, and technical execution to bring ideas to life across social platforms.

Responsibilities

• Concepting & Creative Development: Develop original, social-first concepts rooted in brand objectives, audience behaviors, cultural moments, platform trends, and emerging formats. Participate in brainstorms, develop ideas, and translate concepts into executable content.
• Content Creation: Bring ideas to life through hands-on content creation, including scripting, storyboarding, shooting, interviewing, and editing. Own concepts from initial idea through final execution, with the ability to create independently or collaborate with other creative disciplines when needed.
• Art Direction: Establish and execute the visual direction for content, including framing, lighting, styling, composition, props, sets, locations, and overall aesthetic. Provide creative guidance and feedback to collaborators to ensure the final work feels cohesive, intentional, and on-brand.
• Shooting & Production: Operate cameras, phones, lighting, audio equipment, and other production tools to capture high-quality social content. Be comfortable working across everything from quick-turn, lo-fi social shoots to onsite events.
• Editing & Post-Production: Edit short-form video content from rough cut through final delivery, including pacing, sound design, music, graphics, captions, transitions, and other platform-native editing techniques.
• Talent Direction: Direct creators, talent, or on-street personalities when needed and interview subjects at onsite events.
• On-Screen Participation: Be willing and comfortable serving as on-screen talent when a concept calls for it, including appearing on camera or contributing your hands, voice, or personality to the content.
• Trend & Platform Fluency: Stay deeply connected to social culture, emerging trends, creator behaviors, platform features, editing styles, and new content formats. Identify opportunities to participate in trends while finding an original, brand-relevant point of view.
• Quality Control: Review and refine content before publication to ensure it meets creative and quality standards and aligns with the brand’s voice, visual identity, and messaging.
• Audience & Performance Insights: Apply audience insights, performance learnings, and feedback from peers and partners to evolve creative approaches and optimize future content.
• Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with client partners, delivery, production, and other cross-functional teammates to ensure content supports broader creative and business objectives.
• Technical Proficiency: Utilize cameras, phones, microphones, lighting equipment, editing software, design tools, and evolving platform-native creation tools. Stay current on new technologies and workflows that can make content more creative, efficient, and effective.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in content creation, social creative, video production, or a related creative discipline
• Strong portfolio demonstrating concepting and hands-on creation of social-first content
• Experience developing, shooting, and editing short-form video for TikTok, IG Reels, YouTube Shorts, and other social platforms
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Premiere or comparable video editing software
• Strong camera operation, lighting, audio, and sound design skills
• Experience directing creators, talent, and/or on-street personalities
• Comfort and willingness to appear on camera or contribute voice/hands as talent when creatively appropriate
• Strong understanding of social trends, platform behaviors, creator culture, and emerging content formats
• Ability to take an idea from concept through final execution, both independently and collaboratively
• Ability to work quickly, experiment, iterate, and respond to feedback in a fast-moving social environment

We Offer

The anticipated hourly range for this position is $80 hourly. Rate is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, expertise, and organizational impact. This is based on a 40-hour workweek and leveling. Keep in mind, we're flexible.

About the Company

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

WE SUPPORT YOU BEING YOU:

DEPT® is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We believe our work is its best when our people feel safe and free to be themselves. We’re committed to an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process and workplace, regardless of anyone’s identity, background, beliefs, lifestyle or disabilities. So tell us about any accommodations you need. It’s totally confidential and only used to make sure you feel fully supported at every step.

DEPT® participates in E-Verify, meaning your Form I-9 information will be sent to the federal government to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S.

We are a B Corp-certified company passionate about purpose-driven work. Our hope is that you can feel good about the contributions DEPT® is making to the world and we always have an open door for your ideas in making the world a better place.

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