Content Creator & Social Media Manager

Nashville Public Radio; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Summer Thornton Design is looking for a highly creative Content Creator & Social Media Manager in Chicago. This role involves capturing real-time content in the studio, creating engaging posts, and growing the brand across various platforms.

The right candidate has strong aesthetic skills, excellent writing, and editing capabilities. Responsibilities include managing a content calendar, maintaining a consistent publishing schedule, and supporting broader marketing efforts. Send your resume and portfolio to [e-mail].

Qualifications

• Strong aesthetic skills with experience in capturing design elements.
• Proven ability to create engaging visual and written content across social platforms.
• Excellent organization and follow-through with project management.

Responsibilities

• Identify content opportunities in real-time at project sites.
• Film and edit behind-the-scenes moments for social media.
• Develop and execute fresh content ideas across platforms.

Skills

Aesthetic skills

Creative writing

Content editing

Social media strategy

Tools

Squarespace

Instagram

Pinterest

YouTube

Job description

Summer Thornton Design is looking for a highly creative Content Creator & Social Media Manager to bring our interiors, projects, process, and POV to life across digital & social platforms.

This role is ideal for someone who has exceptionally strong aesthetic skills, thinks in series, storylines, captions, covers, and scroll-stopping visuals, and is also passionate about interior design & architecture. We are looking for someone who is energized by the day-to-day rhythm of working in a creative studio & can be present in-office, notice what is happening in real time, and turn everyday moments in-studio – design meetings, sample reviews, vendor visits, installs, project updates, team conversations, and behind-the-scenes moments – into beautifully captured & compelling content that gives our audience a peek behind the curtain of how we make magic for our clients.

You should also be able to look through a folder of project photos, install clips, press features, iPhone videos, or past assets and quickly identify fresh ideas, edit them into engaging posts, and package them in a way that feels elevated, thoughtful, and true to the Summer Thornton brand personality.

The right person has strong aesthetic taste, sharp social instincts, excellent organization, and the ability to both dream up creative ideas and execute them. You should be comfortable personally filming, capturing, editing, and sharing behind-the-scenes moments, short-form video, building carousels, writing captions, maintaining a content calendar, and growing the brand across Instagram, Pinterest, email, ST website, Youtube, and beyond.

Primary Responsibilities

• Identify and capture real-time content opportunities in the ST Design office/studio & at project sites, including design meetings, vendor visits, sample reviews, project work, team moments, site visits, installs, photoshoots, and day-to-day creative process
• Film the Summer Thornton team and turn behind-the-scenes / making-of moments into professional, engaging social content
• Develop and execute fresh content ideas, hooks, series, and storylines across Instagram, Pinterest, email, website, blog, and other digital platforms
• Review existing photography, video, project imagery, install footage, press, and behind-the-scenes assets to identify new content opportunities
• Personally create, edit, and package short-form videos, carousels, stories, graphics, captions, covers, newsletters, and website content
• Build and maintain a content calendar and consistent publishing schedule
• Repurpose strong content across platforms, including turning social posts into blog, email, Pinterest, and website content
• Write strong hooks, captions, titles, covers, story copy, newsletter copy, and light website/blog copy
• Track content performance and recommend what to repeat, refine, or retire
• Update the website through Squarespace, including project imagery, press articles, blog posts, and other content
• Support broader marketing efforts including press, photoshoot, editor, influencer, partnership, and imagery requests
• Establish & build relationships with key influencers & brands in the social media space for crosspromotion, partnership, & brand-building opportunities
• Develop strategies & tactics to maximize online sharing of Summer Thornton content
• Coordinate with outside editors, writers, photographers, and videographers as needed
• May require occasional out-of-state travel for progress site visits, installs, photoshoots, or project and/or Principal designer related content capture

What You Bring

• A deep understanding of Instagram, Reels, Stories, Pinterest, Youtube, email, and emerging content trends
• Strong taste and visual judgment, especially around interiors, color, styling, framing, and composition
• Excellent editing instincts, including pacing, music selection, titles, covers, and hooks
• Ability to turn both live studio moments and existing asset folders into compelling content ideas
• Comfort filming in real time and capturing people, process, details, and behind-the-scenes moments
• Strong writing skills for captions, newsletters, story copy, and light website/blog content
• Excellent organization and follow-through, including maintaining calendars, naming files, tracking assets, and meeting deadlines
• Ability to work independently, pitch ideas proactively, and execute without waiting for step-by-step direction

This role is a Full-Time in-person position in our Lincoln Park (Chicago) office.

Send resume, creative portfolio, pay requirements & references to: [e-mail]