Mid-Level Content Creator in Manchester

We’re hiring a Content Creator to join the team and help us keep the standard high across stills and motion. You’ll create social first work that can live everywhere from fast, reactive lo-fi formats to polished campaign assets. This is a hands-on role for a mid-level Content Creator (or an experienced and talented junior) who wants to grow quickly. You’ll be expected to shoot, edit, and elevate ideas into content that feels intentional, well crafted, and platform native. Alongside craft, we need conceptual thinking: you should be able to take a brief, find the idea in it, and translate that into a clear content approach. You’ll work closely with the Creative Director and senior creatives, partnering with producers, designers, and art directors to deliver content that is on brief, on brand, and on time.

Roles and responsibilities

• Plan and create content across stills and motion for social and campaign use.
• Contribute to concept development: bring ideas, references, formats, and execution approaches that ladder up to the wider creative direction and work natively on platform.
• Translate concepts into practical shoot plans, shot lists, and edit structures that make the idea land clearly.
• Stay current with platform trends and behaviours (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and emerging formats) and bring that knowledge into creative decisions without chasing trends for the sake of it.
• Keep an active eye on cinematography and photography trends, techniques, and references, and apply what’s relevant to improve the work.

Capture and production

• Confidently shoot with the right tool for the job, from mobile through to mirrorless or DSLR and small rig setups.
• Work across studio and location environments, adapting quickly based on time, space, and budget.
• Build and run lighting setups for both stills and video, from simple natural light shaping to controlled studio lighting.
• Apply core film and photography principles day to day: exposure (ISO, shutter, aperture), composition, lens choices, depth of field, frame rates, and basic audio fundamentals.
• Maintain solid file handling and media management: organised backups, clean folder structures, version control, and consistent export standards.

Post Production and finishing

• Edit short form video and cutdowns with strong pacing, rhythm, sound, captions, and a clear point of view.
• Move between lo-fi and high polish without losing intent or quality.
• Build simple story structures that give content a reason to exist, not just a look.
• Keep projects organised through post: file structures, naming, versioning, exports for different platforms, and quick turn amends.
• Use modern tools, including AI where appropriate, to optimise workflow and support visual exploration, ideation, and rapid prototyping without lowering the bar.
• A plus if you can retouch, animate, or add light VFX to elevate delivery.

Those who succeed will be

• Social native: you understand what performs, why it performs, and how to apply that knowledge with good judgment.
• Concept led as well as craft led: you can spot the idea, shape it, and execute it with clarity.
• Strong across both stills and motion, with a clear editing sensibility and good taste.
• Confident with lighting, able to create clean, repeatable setups and adapt quickly on location.
• Well versed in core film and photography fundamentals, including exposure, composition, and camera settings, and you know how to apply them under pressure.
• Organised with file handling and media management, keeping projects tidy, trackable, and easy to pick up across a team.
• Fast, calm, and reliable, able to handle multiple jobs without standards slipping.
• Curious and current: you keep up with social trends, and also the wider worlds of photography and cinematography, then bring the best of it into the work.
• Interested in AI as part of a modern workflow, with the taste to know when it helps and when it doesn’t.
• Collaborative and proactive, able to take direction but also push work forward independently.
• Always making: shooting tests, building skills, learning new techniques and tools.
• Bonus points for retouching, animation, or VFX experience (not essential, but a real advantage).

What we offer you

• 24 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays.
• Christmas shutdown (Christmas Eve until 2nd January).
• Training opportunities both within the company and via external courses.
• Predominantly office-based role with one day a week work-from-home flexibility (additional flexibility available when needed).
• Discretionary annual bonus based on company performance.