Content Executive

Smedley Group; Bicester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Smedley Group is seeking a creative Content Executive to join the marketing team for FAT Karting League, a fast-growing motorsport brand. You’ll shoot and edit content from races and events, build social-first videos, and help tell the stories behind drivers, coaches, and events across five regions.

Based in the UK, you’ll travel to UK and international events, collaborate with the marketing team, and help scale content across social channels and CRM campaigns.

Qualifications

• 1+ years' experience in content creation, social media or creative marketing.
• Strong ability to shoot and edit video and photography.
• Confident creating engaging short-form content for social media.
• Experience with Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva or Figma.

Responsibilities

• Shoot high-quality video and photography at races, events and activations.
• Attend UK events and potentially international events to capture content.
• Plan and create short-form content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and paid advertising.
• Edit short-form video for social media and paid ads.
• Create graphics and creative assets for social and advertising campaigns.
• Coordinate content across five regions and guide regional teams.

Skills

Content creation

Social media

Video editing

Photography

Storytelling

Independence

Tools

Premiere Pro

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Canva

Figma

Job description

Job Title: Content Executive

Location: Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire

About Fat Karting League

As a growing organisation, we're building more than just a karting league. With plans to expand into other areas of motorsport, we're creating opportunities for people who want to grow with the business and develop their careers as we scale. We're looking for driven individuals who thrive in fast-paced, energetic settings, take pride in high standards, and are motivated by responsibility, progression, and being part of something that's moving forward. We combine commercial focus with high standards, ownership, and a clear drive for performance. Our environment is dynamic, hands-on, and built for people who are hungry to grow, take responsibility, and help shape a business that's still being written. We're looking for individuals who are motivated by progress, comfortable in a fast-moving, evolving environment, and ready to play a meaningful role in a group that values initiative, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Role Summary

We're looking for a creative, hands-on Content Executive to join the marketing team at FAT Karting League, a fast-growing global motorsport brand with a big ambition: to change the way young drivers enter the sport. This is a chance to create content around some of the most exciting people and events in motorsport. From our World Finals to our F4 team, to working with some of the biggest names in the sport, and the next generation of racing talent, you'll help tell the stories that make FAT Karting League unique. You'll be involved from camera to final edit, capturing footage and photography, then turn it into exciting, social-first content across our five growing markets. You'll be creating everything from fast-paced racing edits and driver stories to behind-the-scenes content, graphics and campaign creative.

Key Responsibilities

Content creation

• Shoot high-quality video and photography at races, events and activations
• Attend UK events and potentially international events to capture content
• Capture engaging behind-the-scenes, driver, coaching and race content
• Plan and create short-form content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and paid advertising
• Turn event footage into a consistent flow of social and campaign content, supporting 5 social accounts and our paid output
• Identify opportunities to tell stories around our drivers, coaches, events and the wider FAT Karting League journey

Editing and Design

• Edit short-form video for social media and paid ads
• Create graphics and creative assets for social and advertising campaigns
• Adapt content into different formats, platforms and campaign requirements
• Maintain a consistent visual identity across all content, ensuring fundamental brand guidelines are followed
• Work quickly and creatively to produce content around a busy events calendar

Supporting our regions

• Create and coordinate content across five regions, working with local teams to understand what is happening on the ground and guiding them on what content to capture on event
• Help build a consistent global content approach while allowing each region to showcase its own stories
• Repurpose strong content across regions and campaigns where appropriate

Working with the marketing team

• Work closely with the wider marketing team to execute campaigns from concept through to delivery
• Supporting on content to support CRM email campaigns
• Translate campaign objectives into creative, engaging content
• Support launches, events, promotions and key marketing campaigns
• Bring new ideas to the table and stay on top of social and content trends
• Help build a strong library of high-quality photo, video and creative assets

Qualifications and Experience

• 1+ years' experience in content creation, social media, creative marketing or a similar role
• Strong ability to shoot and edit video and photography
• Confident creating engaging short-form content for social media
• Good eye for visual design and storytelling
• Experience with Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva and Figma (or equivalents)
• Comfortable working independently from a brief, but equally happy collaborating with a wider team
• Organised, proactive and able to manage multiple content requirements at once
• Happy to travel across the UK and international events to capture content
• A strong understanding of what makes content engaging on social media

Experience in motorsport content creation, sports content or a genuine passion for motorsport would be highly beneficial. You don't need to have worked in motorsport before, but you should be excited by the opportunity to work around racing, drivers, competition and performance. You'll be creating content in an environment where motorsport isn't just the subject of the content, it's the heart of the brand.

Why join Smedley Group:

If you love motorsport, storytelling, filming and editing, this is an opportunity to build your portfolio around a growing glo