Junior social content creator

Salary: £26,000

Location: Bath

If you’re obsessed with social media and online trends, this role offers the chance to create, edit and shape content for major entertainment and gaming brands.

Reach is a full-service creative agency specialising in the entertainment industries. Our authentic, content-first approach and commitment to quality has earned us clients including Lionsgate, Netflix, Studiocanal, Sky and PlayStation.

We are looking for a junior social content creator to work across our social media contracts in both video games and entertainment. While the primary goal for this role is to aid in the creation of excellent content, the successful candidate will be a true social media all-rounder. They’ll lead and contribute to ideation sessions, write authentic copy to make our content sing, and innately understand how our target Gen Z audiences are using our key platforms.

This is a role that offers excellent scope for growth, with the opportunity to improve editing skills working alongside our studio, join the production team on our many shoots, and gain experience working with some of the biggest IP in the entertainment and gaming industries.

The ideal candidate will be an excellent collaborator with an insatiable appetite for creativity. You will take pride in your work, and that of your team – approaching each project with enthusiasm and openness. You should live and breathe social media and wider trends in entertainment, ideally belonging to a fandom yourself. We need someone with strong ideas and opinions, passionate about delivering superb content, and who is excited to learn new skills. We expect candidates to strive for excellence at all times, and will support them to do that.

The job is full-time from our Bath office. We believe the most effective way for entry level employees to develop their skills is working in-person alongside our team, and as such we won’t be accepting applications from remote candidates for this role.

Responsibilities include:

• Generating ideas for social content across all major platforms, with a focus on TikTok
• Producing clear edit and design briefs for internal teams
• Editing short-form clips and compilations
• Creating platform-native assets (captions, text overlays, thumbnails)
• Capturing gameplay
• Staying up to date with platform updates and best practice
• Monitoring trending sounds and formats to find suitable opportunities for our brands to participate
• Supporting community management and flagging notable audience sentiment
• Helping to manage client social media calendars
• Writing snappy, on-brand copy that is tailored to each platform
• Scheduling content
• Working closely with Client Services and Production to ensure timely delivery
• Identifying ways to improve asset performance

Ideal skills & requirements

• Experience editing with Capcut or similar mobile-first social editing software
• Experience with, or the ambition to learn editing within Premiere Pro
• Strong copywriting skills are essential – with a clear understanding of Gen Z tone, humour and platform-native voice
• A good handle on TikTok trends and the challenges brands can have in utilising them
• Community experience – both engaging with and managing
• Comfortable with Google apps
• Experience with project management tools such as Asana is a plus
• Interest in film, TV, gaming and online creator culture
• Experience with scheduling and analytics platforms like Brandwatch, Talkwalker and Sprout Social a plus
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and curious mindset
• Awareness of what drives retention and engagement in shortform video

Company benefits

• PlayStation Plus, Netflix, Headspace subscriptions
• Two company parties per year (+ plenty of extra social events)
• Enrolment into our excellent workplace pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement

How to apply
Please send your CV, a short covering letter (no more than 500 words) and a link to appropriate examples of your video editing work.

The successful candidate will then be selected through interview and a short creative task.

We actively encourage applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and value the positive impact a diverse team brings both to our company and the online communities of which we’re a part.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.