Social Video, Jr. Creative Strategist

Snowball

• $75K — $95K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 1-2 years of agency or media experience preferred
  • Strong understanding of content creation and audience engagement
  • Proficient in using tools like Asana for project management
  • Ability to analyze video content for strategic insights

Responsibilities

  • Analyze long-form YouTube content to identify opportunities for short-form cutdowns
  • Transform identified moments into actionable creative briefs for editors
  • Guide the editing process with feedback on storytelling and optimization
  • Review cuts and manage revisions to ensure quality outcomes
  • Conduct research on short-form trends to inform creative strategy

Benefits

  • Health and vision benefits
  • 401(k) plan for eligible employees
  • Fully remote work environment
  • Direct mentorship from senior creative strategists
  • Opportunities for significant professional growth in creative strategy
Full Job Description
Social Video, Jr. Creative Strategist

Full-Time | Remote, US | $75K-$95K USD

The Role

We're looking for a highly curious, organized, and creatively driven Short-Form Creative Strategist to help us scale the short-form content we create for some of the world's biggest brands.

This is an ideal role for someone early in their career who is obsessed with content, audience attention, and understanding why people watch what they watch.

You'll initially focus heavily on turning long-form YouTube content into strategically optimized short-form cutdowns. You'll learn how to identify the strongest moments from a long-form video, translate those moments into clear creative briefs, work with editors through revisions, and optimize each piece specifically for short-form platforms.

The goal is not for you to stay there forever.

As you master our approach, you'll take increasing ownership of client work and expand into original short-form strategy, creative research, content ideation, and broader channel strategy.

We're looking for someone we can teach aggressively, give meaningful ownership to quickly, and grow into an exceptional creative strategist.

What You'll Own
Short-Form & Cutdown Strategy
  • Watch and analyze long-form YouTube content to identify the strongest opportunities for short-form cutdowns
  • Determine which moments, narratives, hooks, and ideas are most likely to earn attention in a short-form environment
  • Turn those opportunities into clear, actionable creative briefs for editors
  • Provide direction around structure, hooks, pacing, storytelling, framing, and short-form optimization
  • Review editor cuts and give thoughtful, specific feedback through multiple rounds of revisions
  • Own cutdowns from initial concept through near-final approval
  • Develop enough strategic judgment over time to independently run the cutdown process for individual clients
Creative Research & Strategy
  • Research short-form trends, formats, creators, competitors, and emerging audience behaviors
  • Source relevant examples and references to inspire client work
  • Study why certain pieces of content earn attention and translate those insights into actionable creative decisions
  • Support the development of original short-form content strategies
  • Contribute ideas for how brands can grow attention organically across social platforms
  • Gradually take on broader creative strategy and original content development as you grow in the role
Content Ownership & Execution
  • Manage your assignments and creative workflows in Asana
  • Coordinate with editors and creators to keep work moving
  • Track deliverables, timelines, revisions, and outstanding feedback
  • Follow up proactively when something is at risk of slipping
  • Make sure briefs, edits, feedback, and final deliverables are organized and accounted for
  • Take ownership of the work rather than waiting for someone else to tell you what needs attention


What We're Looking For

We're much more interested in how your brain works than how many years you've been doing this.

You might be a recent graduate, someone with a year or two of agency or media experience, a creator looking to move into strategy, or someone coming from a completely different creative or analytical background.

What matters most is that you are:
  • Crazy curious. You naturally ask why something works, why people pay attention, why one intro performs better than another, or why an audience behaves the way it does.
  • A fast learner. You can absorb a new framework, apply feedback quickly


Compensation & Benefits
  • US compensation: 75,000-95,000 USD, depending on experience
  • Health & vision benefits
  • 401(k) for eligible US employees
  • Fully remote
  • Direct mentorship from Snowball's senior creative strategy team
  • Significant opportunity to grow into broader creative strategy, research, and client ownership
  • Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-growing company


Our Values
  • Work hard, learn harder
  • Be effectively proactive
  • Overdeliver for clients
  • Be kind by being clear
  • A+ players only

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