CONTENT STRATEGIST

Little Dot Studios; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health stipend & counseling

Happy hours & team events

401K retirement fund

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Learning & development program

Flexible time off

Half-day Fridays

Job summary

Little Dot Studios is seeking a Content Strategist to join the Social Video Services team in Los Angeles. You will help create, optimize and distribute video content for YouTube and social platforms, mentor platform managers, and contribute to trend reports and playbooks.

You will collaborate across departments to maintain and evolve our creative identity, delivering high-quality content for top-tier clients and driving channel performance through data-informed strategies.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of social media and/or related digital marketing experience
• Team management experience
• Excellent knowledge of YouTube and social video platforms and a clear awareness of differences for native content
• In-depth understanding of YouTube analytics and how they should inform platform-specific creative
• Excellent skills in Adobe Photoshop and Premiere - After Effects is a bonus
• Experience producing social video (timecodes)
• Highly creative, online native and up-to-date on social trends
• Excellent written and verbal communication and client management skills

Responsibilities

• Ideating creative video concepts for globally known brands on social video platforms
• Using a blend of platform data, current trends and creative instincts to inform channel strategy
• Effectively communicating and/or pitching your ideas to internal teams and clients
• Creating eye catching images, GIFs and social posts
• Writing compelling on-brand copy for posts, understanding editorial voice and tone
• Using YouTube analytics to help inform strategic channel decisions

Skills

Social media marketing

Team management

YouTube analytics

Client management

Communication skills

Creativity

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Job description

We Realize Potential in Your Story

We are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a Content Strategist to join our Social Video Services team - Is this your next opportunity? The Content Strategist ensures the department deliverables are of the highest standard, and that we are simultaneously delivering and innovating on our creative output for top tier clients. This role works collaboratively across all departments at Little Dot Studios and is a key part of establishing and maintaining our creative identity as a company. This role supports all creative content development across the SVS team, supporting platform managers and strategists to make content that outperforms the benchmark. They may support in the trend report, proposals, playbooks, competitive reports, etc to take our content strategies to the next level. They will work on creating, optimizing and distributing video content for YouTube and social video platforms across a range of verticals. They should expect to serve as mentors for platform managers that show interest in creative development and content strategy.

PERKS OF THE JOB

• Stay healthy with a monthly health & wellness stipend and free access to counseling sessions
• Enjoy regular Happy Hours, treats and events with your team
• Plan ahead with a 401K retirement fund
• Support your family with medical, dental & vision insurance
• Invest in your growth both personally & professionally with our Learning & Development Program
• Take flex time off for vacations, family time, or mental health days
• Enjoy long summer weekends by working half days on Friday

How You Will Spend Your Time

• Ideating creative video concepts for globally known brands on social video platforms
• Using a blend of platform data, current trends and creative instincts to inform channel strategy
• Effectively communicating and/or pitching your ideas to internal teams and clients
• Creating eye catching images, GIFs and social posts
• Writing compelling on-brand copy for posts, understanding the importance of editorial voice and tone
• Using YouTube analytics to help inform strategic channel decisions

What You Need To Succeed

Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything.

• 3+ years of social media and/or related digital marketing experience
• Team Management Experience
• Excellent knowledge of YouTube and social video platforms and a clear awareness of the differences between them when it comes to effective native video content
• An in-depth understanding of YouTube analytics and how they should inform platform-specific creative
• Excellent skills in Adobe Photoshop and Premiere - After Effects is a bonus!
• Experience producing social video (timecodes)
• Highly creative, online native, and constantly up to date on social trends
• Great communication, both written and verbal
• Excellent client management skills with demonstrable experience
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to proof-check your own work
• Team player with a hard-working flexible attitude, a good sense of humour and an interest in working in a dynamic start‑up environment
• Proficiency in other languages (bonus)

Candidates must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

USE OF AI IN APPLICATIONS

Please keep it human; we want to get to know you - your thinking, and your originality. Whilst generative AI tools can be helpful for text refinement, we require your application to jobs at Little Dot Studios to be in your own voice and words. AI cannot be used to generate your responses and any applications appearing to be entirely AI-generated will not be progressed.

LITTLE DOT, BIG IMPACT

We’re probably the biggest studio you didn’t know was fueling your favorite content. We’ve been one of the top dogs in the digital content space since 2013 (some would say, before its potential was even fully realized). We're proud to work with some of the hottest TV and movie studios, distributors, rights holders, sports federations and brands in the business.

WE ARE COMMITTED

Little Dot Studios is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and does not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, pregnancy, age over 40, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, registered domestic partner status or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation. Please inform LDS if you need assistance to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process. LDS will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Not accepting submissions from search firms or recruiters.

Learn more about us, our values and our commitments please visit our website www.littledotstudios.com for more information.

We are Little Dot Studios - a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network.

We work across every screen, partnering with some of the biggest names in entertainment, sports, social impact and consumer brands. As leading YouTube and social media specialists, we handle everything from strategy, audience development, content production, monetization, and digital copyright management.

We’re disruptive by nature and adaptive by design. We operate a multi-platform, multi-format production company who specialise in creating everything from original broadcast-quality film and TV and award-winning podcast series to short-form social content and live streams that perfectly tap into cultural moments. Whether we’re building communities, engaging superfans or driving performance - our aim is to realize the potential in every story.

We also run Little Dot Channels - our global digital media network made up of more than 250 channels across social platforms and seven FAST brands streaming on over 130 feeds. With more than 30,000 hours of premium content, we reach 125 million unique viewers every month and offer access to one of the largest brand-safe, premium advertising inventories across YouTube and CTV.

We’re proud to include WING, our specialist sports and branded content agency, and History Hit, Dan Snow’s podcast network and SVOD service, in the Little Dot group too.

To top it all off, we’re a certified B Corp, have been verified carbon neutral since inception, and are on track to be net‑zero by 2030.

Founded in April 2013 and born for the digital entertainment era, we are made up of 500 digital experts across the UK, USA, Germany & APAC. We are part of media and entertainment group, Banijay Entertainment.