Junior Social Content Creator

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

JOB PURPOSE

If you live and breathe TikTok, META, YouTube and internet culture, love making content and want to turn that instinct into brilliant creative work for some of the world’s biggest brands, we want to hear from you.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll help concept, film and edit social-first content that connects with audiences, taps into culture and helps our clients stand out. Working alongside experienced creatives, you’ll bring ideas to life across platforms including TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, primarily for organic social, with opportunities to support paid social creative.

You don’t need to arrive knowing everything. You’ll be supported by a wider team across Creative, Strategy, Community, Account and Media, giving you the opportunity to develop your ideas, craft and understanding of what makes effective social content.

Regularly appearing on camera is an expected part of this role. Your image, voice and likeness will feature in content created for clients’ organic social channels. Content featuring you may also be considered for paid media, subject to appropriate usage terms, approvals and DEPT® policies.

No two days will look the same. You might be filming on location, hitting the streets for a mini-mic shoot, creating something reactive from the office or supporting a larger production. Location shoots and travel are a genuine part of the role, so you’ll need to be comfortable working in different environments and travelling where required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Create social-first content: Contribute to concepting, filming and editing engaging content for your clients, with support and creative direction from senior team members.Bring ideas and cultural insight: Stay close to trends, creators, conversations and emerging platform behaviours, sharing relevant opportunities and your own creative perspective with the team.Appear on camera: Regularly feature in the content you help create, bringing ideas to life through presenting, participating in formats and other on-camera activity.
Produce planned and reactive content: Help deliver timely, platform-native work, with support on prioritisation, balancing speed with craft and brand consistency.Support content shoots: Help prepare for and deliver content capture, contributing to shot lists, props and practical preparation, and supporting filming on location.Develop your editing and storytelling: Use in-platform and third-party tools to explore different hooks, formats, editing styles and storytelling techniques.Adapt content for different audiences: Learn how to apply each client’s tone of voice and tailor ideas to different platforms, communities and objectives.Support paid social creative: Work with the wider team to develop and adapt content for paid campaigns, exploring different hooks, formats and creative variations.Learn from performance: Work with Social and Media colleagues to understand what resonates with audiences and apply those learnings to future ideas and iterations.
Spot community-led opportunities: Identify interesting comments, conversations and community behaviours, suggesting creative responses or content opportunities for Community Managers to activate.Collaborate and develop: Work closely with Creative, Strategy, Community, Account and Media colleagues, apply feedback constructively and build confidence sharing your thinking in internal and client conversations.

Publishing, channel management, community management and moderation are not responsibilities of this role.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

A genuine passion for social media, content creation and internet culture, with good knowledge of TikTok, Instagram and the wider social landscape.A strong instinct for what makes content entertaining, engaging, shareable and native to the platform.Some hands-on experience filming and editing social content, whether professionally, personally, through education or independent projects.Experience using in-app editing features and/or tools such as CapCut or Adobe Premiere Pro, with an appetite to develop your skills further.Confidence and willingness to appear regularly on camera as part of your role.A proactive, hands-on approach, with enthusiasm for contributing ideas and bringing them to life with support.Openness to feedback and creative direction, and a willingness to experiment, learn and improve.A collaborative, adaptable approach and the ability to communicate clearly with colleagues.Comfortable travelling and working on location for shoots when required.A portfolio or examples of social content that demonstrate your creative thinking and making skills. Work from personal channels, education and independent projects is welcome.

NICE TO HAVE

Experience creating content for brands, agencies or commercial social accounts.An interest in how creative approaches differ between organic and paid social.Photography, graphic design or other creative production skills.An interest in travel, lifestyle and consumer brands.

CREATOR WELFARE AND USAGE

As regularly appearing in public-facing brand content is part of this role, DEPT® recognises its responsibility to support the wellbeing of employees featured in that content.Clear processes will be in place to manage and escalate abusive, discriminatory, harassing or otherwise inappropriate audience responses directed at employees. You will have a clear route to raise concerns and access support, without being expected to moderate or manage those responses yourself.Any use of your image, voice or likeness in paid media will be subject to appropriate usage terms, approvals and DEPT® policies.

WE OFFER

• A flexible, hybrid working policy
• The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash) 
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year
• Company pension scheme 
• EAP scheme
• Ride to work scheme 
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Buddy Program: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®.
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
• Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHT DEPT?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION 

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.