Senior Social Content Creator
Freelance · Onsite Houston · Reports to Content Team Lead
About the Opportunity
Join a fast-paced content studio supporting an exciting organization with high-visibility social, editorial, and digital communications. This role is part of an agile creative team that develops compelling stories for internal and external audiences across major social platforms.
Position Overview
The Senior Social Content Creator is a hands-on, player-coach creative professional who produces high-quality social-first content while helping elevate the work of fellow creators. This position combines concepting, video production, visual design, and creative mentorship. You will create engaging content across short-form video, photography, motion, graphics, and other digital formats while providing creative guidance to a team of Social Content Creators.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, mentor, and provide constructive creative feedback to a team of Social Content Creators.
- Review social and video deliverables for concept strength, brand consistency, accessibility, and technical quality.
- Concept and produce social-first content across video, photography, graphics, motion, and digital formats.
- Shoot, edit, and produce short-form and vertical video optimized for social channels.
- Coach team members on video production, editing techniques, visual storytelling, and platform best practices.
- Translate communications priorities, campaign ideas, and social strategies into compelling visual narratives.
- Create and oversee social graphics, motion assets, digital cards, and related content using established design systems.
- Adapt larger campaigns, stories, and editorial content into channel-specific social executions.
- Partner with content leads, social strategists, editors, and cross-functional creative partners to develop strong ideas.
- Capture timely content connected to events, leadership communications, employee stories, milestones, and other key moments.
- Manage a mix of planned projects and quick-turn assignments while maintaining exceptional creative quality.
- Incorporate feedback efficiently and ensure final assets meet required review, brand, and publishing standards.
What You Bring
- 3–6 years of hands-on experience in social content creation, video production, digital creative, design, or a related discipline.
- Experience working in an advertising agency, corporate in-house studio, content team, or similarly fast-paced creative environment.
- Experience mentoring, guiding, or reviewing the work of other creatives; candidates ready to step into their first formal leadership opportunity are encouraged to apply.
- A strong portfolio featuring social-first work, especially short-form and vertical video, along with examples of collaborative or team-led creative work.
- Hands-on video shooting and editing experience, including knowledge of lighting, composition, audio, pacing, and storytelling.
- Strong visual design capabilities and experience creating social graphics and other digital assets.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Canva, and/or comparable video, motion, and design tools.
- Strong understanding of major social platforms, evolving content trends, and channel-specific creative formats.
- Ability to turn broad messages and strategic priorities into clear, visually engaging content concepts.
- Excellent organization, attention to detail, adaptability, and ability to balance hands-on production with creative leadership.
- A collaborative approach and comfort working as part of an integrated creative team.
