Role Overview
This role is primarily focused on creating engaging,high-performing content across organic social media, founder-led content andpaid advertising.
The right person will have an excellent understanding ofwhat makes people stop scrolling, watch, engage and click. They will be highlyskilled in short-form video editing, have a strong visual eye and understandhow small details such as pacing, hooks, first frames, captions and timing cansignificantly impact content performance.
Graphic design experience would also be highly regarded,particularly across print, digital and packaging design, however this issecondary to exceptional content creation and video editing ability.
Key Responsibilities
Content Creation & Video Editing
- Edit short-form video content for Instagram, Facebook,TikTok and other digital channels
- Turn raw founder, team, lifestyle, product andbehind-the-scenes footage into polished, engaging content
- Create founder-led content using supplied footage, imagery,scripts, voiceovers and creative direction
- Edit UGC and customer content into engaging social and paidadvertising creative
- Create Reels, short-form videos, carousels, static graphicsand other social content
- Identify strong hooks, first frames and opening moments tomaximise attention and retention
- Understand pacing, storytelling, transitions, captions,audio and visual hierarchy
- Repurpose existing footage into multiple pieces ofcreative
- Create variations of successful content concepts fortesting
- Stay up to date with emerging social media trends, formatsand editing styles
Performance MarketingCreative
- Create paidadvertising creative for Meta across video, static and carousel formats
- Edit UGC andother video content specifically for performance marketing
- Createmultiple creative variations using different hooks, messaging, imagery andformats
- Understandthe difference between organic social content and performance-focusedadvertising
- Work with themarketing team to refine and iterate creative based on performance
- Createcontent with attention, engagement and conversion in mind
Digital & Social Design
- Designsocial media carousels and static content
- Createwebsite banners, campaign graphics and other digital marketing assets
- Work withinestablished brand guidelines
- Maintainvisual consistency across multiple brands and content channels
- Createsupporting graphics for email marketing and digital campaigns where required
Graphic Design - Desirable, Not Essential
Dependingon experience, the role may also include:
- Designingand updating printed magazines using existing templates
- Creatingproduct information documents and seasonal product guides
- Designingbrochures, cards, box inserts and other printed collateral
- Preparingprint-ready artwork
- Assistingwith packaging design for Retreat Yourself products
- Creatingadditional digital and print campaign collateral
Graphic design qualifications and experience with print orpackaging design would be highly regarded, but are not essential for anexceptional content creator and video editor.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experienceworking with e-commerce or direct-to-consumer brands
- Excellentshort-form video editing skills
- Strongexperience using CapCut or similar video editing software
- Demonstrated experience creating content for Instagram, Facebook and/orTikTok
- Experiencecreating content for brands or e-commerce businesses
- Experiencecreating paid social or Meta advertising creative
- Strongunderstanding of hooks, pacing, retention and engagement
- Excellentvisual judgement and attention to detail
- StrongCanva skills
- Understanding of brand consistency and visual identity
- Ability toturn a clear brief and supplied assets into polished creative
- Strongwritten and spoken English
- Excellentorganisational and file-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple creative projects and deadlines
- Ability toreceive feedback and make changes quickly
Highly Desirable
- Experiencewithin wellness, beauty or lifestyle
- Founder-ledor personal brand content experience
- UGC editingexperience
- Performancemarketing or direct-response creative experience
- Graphicdesign qualification
- AdobeIllustrator, Photoshop or InDesign experience
- Printdesign experience
- Packagingdesign experience
- Pinterestcontent experience