About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Content Creator (Sports) to join our team, creating award-winning, social-first content for some of the world’s most recognised sports brands. You’ll be passionate about sport, especially football culture and have an extensive proven portfolio of social-first work for top brands in sport spaces. You’ll have proven experience earning a place in audiences' minds by building brand presence at the speed of social. This is an end-to-end creative role: you will ideate, shoot, and edit entertaining, attention-grabbing content, with a deep passion for sports, especially football culture. You’ll also be briefed to support the wider team in developing creative platforms and social-first campaigns with additional content ideas that extend big ideas beyond campaigns. We’re looking for someone who is self-initiating, passionate and excited to own the output of social accounts from TikTok to Instagram with proactive ideas and content creation.
Responsibilities
- Ideate, shoot, and edit entertaining, attention-grabbing content.
- Support the wider team in developing creative platforms and social-first campaigns.
- Develop additional content ideas that extend big ideas beyond campaigns.
- Own the output of social accounts from TikTok to Instagram with proactive ideas and content creation.
- Turn images into memes.
- Develop repeatable formats.
- Film TikToks.
- Capture BTS.
- Jump on trends.
- Manage communities.
- Script social-first content.
- Write relatable, attention-grabbing hooks.
- Develop original, unexpected, on-brief ideas.
- Present ideas in client-facing decks.
- Execute ideas independently.
- Collaborate with design, content and creative teams.
- Identify content opportunities.
- Support others to upskill.
- Capture, edit and deliver daily social content using a mobile.
- Ideate trend-led content that delivered results for brands.
- Write and present ideas to internal and external stakeholders.
- Use community management insights to turn online culture into ideas and branded content.
- Generate a high volume of simple but original content ideas at pace.
- Quickly bring the strongest ideas to life with strong social video craft.
- Maximise platform features.
- Use community management creatively, turning comments into briefs.
- Develop a clear creative vision for day-to-day content across brand accounts.
- Develop ideas that align with a brand’s social media strategy.
- Create content.
- Take full accountability for results and deliverables.
- Articulate ideas and approaches.
Requirements
- Previously worked as a senior content creator within the sports space.
- A portfolio of on-brand, on-brief, self-shot and self-edited original social video content.
- Comfortable working with minimal oversight.
- Takes full accountability for results and deliverables.
- Solution-focused.
Skills
- Social-first content creation
- Sports content creation
- Football culture knowledge
- Brand presence building
- Content ideation
- Content shooting
- Content editing
- Creative platform development
- Social account management
- Meme creation
- Repeatable format development
- TikTok filming
- Behind-the-scenes capture
- Trend jumping
- Community management
- Social video scripting
- Hook writing
- Client-facing presentation
- Independent execution
- Team collaboration
- Content opportunity identification
- Upskilling support
- Mobile content capture and editing
- Trend-led content ideation
- Stakeholder communication
- Turning online culture into ideas
- Social video craft
- Creator-led social understanding
- Brand-led social understanding
- Contemporary social content strategy
- Social content formats
- Social content trends
- Platform feature maximisation
- Creative community management
- Creative vision
- Social media strategy alignment
- Articulating ideas
- Articulating approaches
Location
- Four continents
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- WAS Passport scheme
- Work From Anywhere schemes
About the Company
- Largest global socially-led creative agency.
- Unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise.
- Over 1,200 people in four continents.
- Deliver a global perspective to clients.
- Multi award-winning agency.
- Awarded Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards.
- Helped Amazon Music, Activision and Adidas deliver major campaigns.
- Educate the wider industry.
- Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social.
- Hosted events with 6,500+ attendees last year.
- Reports garnered more than 20 million views.
Equal Opportunity
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social.
- Transparent about the changes that are needed.
- Focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry.
- Strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL.
- Charter for Change in the UK details focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2026.
- Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success.
- Create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging.
- Welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds.
- Committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence.
- If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via recruitment@wearesocial.net.
