About the Content Creator role
A Content Creator produces the content a brand publishes: social posts, short-form video, blog articles, graphics, podcasts, or newsletters, depending on the channel mix. Unlike a writer or designer who works in one format, a Content Creator typically ideates, produces, and publishes across formats, often appearing on camera or lending the brand a recognizable voice.
The role varies more than almost any other marketing title. Some companies need a video-first creator who can shoot, edit, and post daily short-form content. Others need a multi-format generalist feeding social, blog, and email. Define your primary format and channels in the posting, because a brilliant TikTok creator and a brilliant long-form writer are different hires.
Portfolios beat resumes here. Ask for links to published work and judge consistency, voice, and audience response rather than polish alone. Also decide internally how much creative freedom the role gets: creators do their best work with clear guardrails and real ownership, and candidates will ask about both.
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Job brief
We are hiring a Content Creator to make the things our audience actually watches and reads. You will come up with the ideas, produce them, and publish them on schedule, developing a voice for us that people recognize without being told whose it is.
This suits somebody self-directed who ships consistently, watches how each piece performed and adjusts, and takes feedback without treating a cut as a personal loss.
Responsibilities
- Generate content ideas grounded in audience research, trends, and brand strategy
- Produce content across formats, including short-form video, social posts, graphics, and articles
- Shoot and edit video and audio content using standard creator tools
- Write clear, on-voice copy for captions, scripts, posts, and blogs
- Maintain a consistent publishing schedule across agreed channels
- Adapt each piece of content to the format and culture of the platform it runs on
- Collaborate with marketing, design, and product teams on campaigns and launches
- Engage with comments and community reactions to your content
- Track content performance and double down on formats that resonate
- Keep an organized library of raw footage, assets, and reusable content
Requirements and skills
- Has published consistently and can send links rather than describe the work
- Has grown or genuinely engaged an audience on at least one significant platform
- Shoots and edits video with a current toolset
- Writes well across captions, scripts, and longer pieces
- Comfortable in a design tool such as Canva or Figma
- Understands how the platforms behave, in formats and in distribution
- Reliable about a publishing cadence without being chased
- Iterates quickly on feedback and on what the numbers say
Nice to have
- On-camera presence or podcast hosting experience
- Photography and lighting skills
- Experience creating content for a B2B or niche technical audience
- Basic SEO knowledge for blog and YouTube content
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