Freelance Social Content Creator (Finance)

We are seeking an experienced Freelance Social Content Creator to support our team for 40 hours/week, during Assembly's working hours (9-5ish, local time). Focusing on both agile and always-on content, this role will bring the culture, trends, and expressions of social into hands-on, in-platform content creation for our clients. An interest in AI, software and cloud services is mandatory, and this is a client- facing, energetic, and highly collaborative role for daily content production.

The job

As a Freelance Social Content Creator, you will be responsible for collaborative and quick turn ideation and content creation across platforms, with a particular emphasis on TikTok. You'll be presenting ideas to the team and the clients, and using your skills to shoot, edit and finish in-platform. You're ready to be behind and in front of the camera as needed, leveraging trends to both concept and execute content ideas. You will work in lock step with a copy partner to lay out scripts and a strategist to ensure the creative meets business goals and objectives, while you take the reins to produce and iterate to final post.

Who are you?

You have deep experience concepting and creating content across platforms: with a particular focus on mobile capture & editing via TikTok. You live and breathe social; by understanding trends in news and culture and how to respond to them, you're deeply familiar with social strategy and how to judge content performance. You love to find creative ways to tell stories, make an impact, move fast and have fun while doing it. You often direct by doing, you show more than tell, while being a collaborative partner on a cross-functional team.

*Please note that freelancers are hired as W-2 temp employees. We are not able to contract folks through personal LLCs, sole proprietor businesses, or the like.

*Assembly occasionally converts freelancers to full-time-employees to support this growing business. Please note that potential for conversion is limited to candidates willing to work a hybrid schedule at an Edelman office.

*Submissions without portfolios will not be considered

Responsibilities:

• Ideating both planned and agile content concepts with particular emphasis on TikTok, Instagram Reels, LinkedIn and more.
• Concepting visual assets such as memes, Instagram slideshows and social copy.
• Clear and quick turn visual framing of ideas for our team and clients, to provide clarity and velocity to the work.
• Presenting ideas and light lift production plans to team and clients as needed.
• End to end content creation including shooting, editing, and using all the tools in app, ideally also with CapCut.
• Proactive interest in burgeoning in-platform tools and features, providing workflow recommendations accordingly.
• Collaboration with creative leads, video directors, animators, and/or editors to help achieve expanded creative goals, as needed.
• Ready to be on camera, potentially self-filming, as needed.
• Provide understanding and communication regarding creative and content creation workflows.
• Organize, plan, and drive light-lift productions to efficiently fulfill content needs.
• Collaboratively iterate and be solutions-oriented to get content across the finish line and approved.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 4 years of relevant experience in social media, integrated communications marketing and/or related fields.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience ideating both planned and agile content concepts with particular emphasis on TikTok, Instagram Reels, LinkedIn and more.
• Experience creating short form video with particular focus on TikTok. Please provide links.
• Experience with shooting, editing and using all the tools in app, ideally also with CapCut.
• Experience working with video directors and editors to help achieve expanded creative goals as needed.
• Working knowledge of post-production and motion graphics, and what can be creatively achieved using these.
• Experience concepting visual assets such as memes, Instagram slideshows and social copy.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• On camera and self-filming experience.
• Strong understanding of creative and content creation workflows and production planning for social media content.

$65 - $85 an hour

An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.

Edelman offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.

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Assembly is an integrated agency providing purpose-built communications to Microsoft - bringing strategy, creative, research, social and digital, and influencer marketing together to drive tangible business results and advance Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

We advocate for ideas based on real audience insights and sound strategic opportunities and bring them to life with creative executions that earn attention. We are the team behind some of Microsoft's most exciting work across Surface, Xbox, M365, and Windows to name a few. We are the lead agency for the Microsoft brand across social; the global PR agency of record for Xbox; and the influencer agency of record for Xbox, Surface, M365 and Windows. Assembly is also a strategic partner for executive communications across Microsoft Store and several executives across the company.

Our results are a direct reflection of our culture and people - we believe that bringing together diverse perspectives enhance creativity and innovation, and we embrace and celebrate differences both in our organization and through our work. We've partnered with Microsoft for 27 years, across 17 countries around the world. Come be a part of our collective story as we partner with Microsoft to enable each other to achieve more.

Assembly Media was founded in 2014 under DJE Holdings to exclusively service Microsoft. In 2019 our parent agency, Edelman, was recognized by AdAge as one of the top 10 creative companies in the U.S. and recognized as a 2019 Best Place to Work.

Assembly is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.