Social Media Content Creator

Job#: 3058800

Job Description:

Social Media Content Creator

Location: Merrifield, Virginia (Hybrid)

Role Overview

This organization is seeking a creative specialist to concept, capture, edit, and produce organic social video content. The focus centers on educational content delivered in an engaging, social-first manner that leverages real-time trends and native social conventions. The successful candidate will develop quick-turn organic content informed by social search optimization (SSO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) to increase brand discoverability across social search platforms, large language models, and AI overviews. Responsibilities include managing the full production process from generating ideas to shooting and editing native videos each month in alignment with brand standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, shoot, edit, and deliver publish-ready short-form videos for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels with a focus on educational, social-first content.
• Collaborate with creative and strategy teams to develop concepts for approval, maintain brand standards, and align with the regulatory landscape.
• Tailor videos to specific channels by adjusting pacing, hooks, framing, on-screen text, audio, and tone.
• Create cut-downs and social-first adaptations of existing long-form video assets, rewriting the hooks and pacing so each piece stands alone.
• Capture original footage including filming, lighting, sound, and on-camera or voiceover elements, while managing editing, captions, color, and sound design.
• Manage casting, location scouting, and budgeting for native content shoots.
• Design, create, and optimize YouTube thumbnails while applying brand voice, visual standards, and accessibility best practices.
• Build SSO- and AEO-informed videos by shaping topics, hooks, spoken language, and captions around audience inquiries.
• Utilize trend, keyword, and platform insights to inform content ideas and review performance data to refine future deliverables.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Film/Media, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Experience: Two or more years of experience producing short-form social video for brands, with a portfolio of published work for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and/or YouTube Shorts.

Technical Skills: Proficiency with professional video editing tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, or similar, and the ability to design basic graphics and thumbnails using Photoshop. Familiarity with social media management tools like Sprinklr, Sprout Social, or Hootsuite is also required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience cutting long-form video into high-performing short-form clips.
• On-camera hosting, voiceover experience, or comfort directing talent and subject matter experts on camera.
• Advanced motion graphics, animation, or sound design skills.
• Working knowledge of SEO, SSO, and AEO principles for social and video platforms.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry, including awareness of compliance and accessibility requirements.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [email protected] or 804-523-8228. Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.

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Employee Type:

Contract

Location:

Merrifield, VA, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:

November 9, 2026

Pay Range:

$30 - $43 per hour

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