Creative Lead, Organic Social

Benchstrength

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 70,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

Health, dental and vision insurance

Unlimited paid time off

Daily lunch and dinner

$100 monthly wellness stipend

401(k) with employer match

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Bi-annual team offsite

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Garage is seeking a rare hybrid: someone who can shoot it, cut it, and tell you why it worked. You’ll own organic social end to end at Garage — the strategy, the camera, the timeline, and the numbers behind all three.

This hands‑on role sits on a lean team. You’ll be in the field with our customers, editing in the office, and analyzing data to guide creative decisions. You’ll help build a content engine that makes Garage a household name across communities that keep America moving.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
4+ years making social‑first video content with a reel demonstrating it.
You are both shooter and editor—capable of solo shoots and editing in tools listed.
Proven growth account/channel from standing start with measurable results.
Deep fluency in platform mechanics and current formats, with data-backed decisions.
Comfortable testing quickly with analytical rigor and willingness to travel to shoot.
Thrives with high autonomy in an early, ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

Own organic social strategy and execution across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Shoot and edit the majority of content on-site with customers, at conferences, and in the field.
Build a repeatable content system with formats, series, and shot lists for weekly cadence.
Set and read the measurement framework: retention, followers, saves, shares, traffic, GMV.
Iterate on formats based on insights and defend creative calls with data and taste.
Develop on‑camera talent from internal team and operators for authentic storytelling.
Repurpose top creative into paid, email, and conference assets.

Skills

Organic social strategy

Video editing

Data-driven marketing

Campaign analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Premiere

Capcut

After Effects

Job description

About Us

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.

In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.

About The Role

We’re looking for a rare hybrid: someone who can shoot it, cut it, and tell you why it worked. You’ll own organic social end to end at Garage — the strategy, the camera, the timeline, and the numbers behind all three. Fire trucks, ambulances, dump trucks, and vac trucks are some of the most visually interesting machines in America, and there’s an opportunity to build a real audience around them. You’ll build the content engine that makes Garage a household name in the communities that keep America moving.

This is a hands‑on role on a lean team. You’ll be in the field with our customers, at the office editing, and in the analytics figuring out what to make more of. You’ll need to intimately understand the customer journey, the marketing mix, and the broader business goals — organic social here is a growth channel, not a brand exercise.

What You’ll Do

Own organic social strategy and execution across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok — what we make, why we make it, and which audience it’s for on both the buyer and seller side
Shoot and edit the majority of it yourself: on‑site with customers, at conferences, and out in the field – then cut platform‑native video that earns attention in the first two seconds
Build a repeatable content system — formats, series, and shot lists that a small team can run weekly without reinventing the wheel every time
Set the measurement framework and read it honestly: retention curves, follower growth, saves and shares, profile-to-site traffic, and downstream contribution to listings, threads, and GMV
Turn insight into iteration — kill formats that don’t hold attention, double down on the ones that do, and be able to explain the difference
Develop talent and voices on camera, from our own team to the operators, mechanics, and chiefs who make this category interesting
Feed the rest of the machine — the best‑performing organic creative should become our paid creative, our email creative, and our conference creative

What We’re Looking For

You love the energy of a high‑growth environment where every day looks a little different
You spike as a creator but think like a growth marketer — you can defend a creative call with data and a data call with taste
You find this category genuinely interesting, or you’re the kind of person who gets interested fast
You have good judgment, high integrity, and a no‑task‑too‑small mindset

Required

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
4+ years making social‑first video content, with a reel that proves it
You are the shooter and the editor — comfortable owning a shoot solo (framing, lighting, audio) and fluent in editing tools (Premiere, Capcut, After Effects, etc)
Have grown an account or a channel from a standing start and can walk us through the numbers you moved and the decisions that moved them
Native fluency in platform mechanics — how the algorithms actually distribute, what formats are working right now, and why
Comfortable testing and iterating quickly with analytical rigor
Willing to travel to shoot
Thrive with high autonomy in an early, ambiguous environment

Nice to have

Experience scaling marketplace businesses
Built audiences in a niche, technical, or trade category rather than a mass‑consumer one
Have worked with creators or subject‑matter experts as on‑camera talent
Comfort with photography and static design alongside video

Our values

Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.
Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.
Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.
Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

Why Garage?

Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.
We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.
We have a talent‑dense, high‑performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.
You’ll be one of our first 40 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

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