Social media video editor / content creator

As a creator at Exela Media Group you are a strategic and creative thinker, storyteller, and doer. This is a great role for a creator with a passion for making videos different social media platforms.

You’re hands-on, able to own the creative process from ideation all the way through to execution. You are able to bring your ideas to life across various social and digital platforms, understanding best practices and nuances. Your job is to understand the client, consume their content and create content around what they talk about and what they do. As an example, a client is a personal brand and they have lots of video content, images and other raw material. You would be the creator who takes the unedited version of the file and turns it into fast and easy to consume content. It could be a tiktok video, IGTV video, feed video or even a Youtube video. You are able to own the process and create outstanding edits that resonate with client's brand and message.

You are part of the team meaning you are working together with content director, content strategists, video editors, graphic designers and playing as a team helps you execute the best ideas for big companies to small personal brands.
Creativity and your skills in making the creative content is what we value the most. You must be creative enough to find the message in a client's content and have the capability of turning an idea or a message into a cool video and high-performing social media post.

The Creator:
- Uses and creates on social media daily

- Has an ability to make relevant content across all platforms and has extraordinary skills in at least one if not all of these: short form video editing, long form video editing, motion graphics, videography, video editing in general

- Videography or design education OR equivalent relevant experience, all applicants will be asked to provide recent content examples from social media accounts

- Shows a demonstrable passion, curiosity and experience in making creative content on social media platforms - Tweets, TikTok videos, Instagram visuals, Youtube edits

- Proficient in one or many of the Adobe Creative Suite programs and eager to continue to learn and evolve in other efficient and effective ways to make social first content: Adobe Creative Suite, mobile creator apps and in app editing (Instagram story creation, TikTok editing etc.)

- Responsible, accountable, deeply passionate about their own personal interests and hobbies, and of course kind, compassionate and empathetic because you love the magic of collaboration

Job:
- Creating emotional, impactful, objective oriented content for one of the many brands that Exela Media Group serves.

- Mastering the ability to turn any branded content into a volume of social gold (clips, gifs, graphics, photos, stories, copy, etc.)

- Working with a wide range and quality of video and static imagery - from a collection of photography to short video clips - and turning them content assets built for individual platforms and audiences

- Collaborating with our creative and strategy teams to create and manipulate video, a plethora of photography, social copy, gifs, short clips, streaming stories etc.

- Honing your design, editing and blurb writing skills utilizing standard industry software and social platforms

- Wrangling and rolling with your teammates to service rapid turnaround times, capture trending moments, deliver and receive feedback, all while keeping a clear, enthusiastic and proactive attitude towards content creation
Remote work only.

BONUS: Prior experience working within personal development industry.