Social Content Creator

Book of the Month is hiring for bold and social obsessed creatives who enjoy ideating and producing social content. This person will work at the intersection of creative, strategy and marketing to fuel concepts and messaging that drive growth. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial content creator who is looking for the resources required to bring your work to millions of viewers. We are open to applicants from a variety of creative backgrounds, including graphic design, video production, photography, on camera talent, etc – but most importantly, successful applicants must have a demonstrated portfolio containing independently made and distributed social creative work.

We are open to candidates who are interested in full time or freelance work.

What You’ll Do…

• Concept: 
  • Ideate high performing original content ideas that can be templatized or repeated, from short-form ongoing video series to engaging formats for monthly book announcements.
  • Act as a curator of culture, staying ahead of new ideas, broader trends, and industry shifts, recommending strategic changes to acquisition efforts as needed. 
  • Bring fresh visual ideas and editing techniques that elevate the perception of the brand and achieve a polished, engaging, and consistent brand tone, look, and feel across all content.
  • Contribute creative concepts that support paid social advertising, helping drive enrollments.
• Create & Collaborate: 
  • Create content that impactfully connects us with consumers, measured by high attention metrics (likes, comments, views, etc).  
  • Stay closely aligned with upcoming campaign strategies and book releases to identify and deliver impactful ways to translate core messaging across social channels.
  • Dig through real-time insights and adapt content based on the learnings that are found. 
  • Turn your ideas into real creative output through individual creative efforts and by gathering and deploying additional talent as needed.
• Production & Editing:
  • Own content pre-production, production, and post production. 
  • Edit and finalize content for social platforms with a high-production, stylized approach—transforming materials into polished, on-brand content, optimizing for format, pacing, and platform best practices.
  • Plan and manage logistics for content capturing needs.

About You…

• You are highly creative and are constantly ideating, brainstorming, and pitching many original ideas.
• You have exceptional taste and a good sense for what types of content or aesthetic would work for Book of the Month social channels. 
• You can look at performance of an asset, and propose ways to improve future performance through new creative ideas. 
• You generate compelling insights about the consumer and can translate them into creative concepts.
• You enjoy working with other creatives to help unlock business goals and are excited by constant ideation. 
• You’re obsessed with social trends, memes, creator culture and books. 
• You push boundaries and take creative risks with your ideas.
• You’re interested in eCommerce, Direct to Consumer, and/or the book business. 
• You’re a conceptual thinker with a high attention to detail and accuracy.
• You are focused, organized, and manage your time efficiently.
• You’re a self-starter who possesses grit in order to create content that elevates an already established brand.