Freelance Social Content Creator — Fast, Studio-Quality

Crispin; New York (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Crispin seeks a freelance content creator who can design, shoot, edit, and produce social-first assets across major platforms. You’ll partner with writers, strategists, and producers to bring ideas from brief to final execution while staying on-brand and current with trends.

The role requires fast turnaround, strong visual storytelling, and comfort on camera across Instagram and TikTok. Start immediately as an hourly freelancer.

Qualifications

• Strong graphic design skills, whether self-taught, formally trained, or somewhere in between.
• Comfortable appearing on camera and being featured in content published to clients’ social media channels.
• Photo and video skills, including shooting, framing, lighting, and editing for social content.
• Deep understanding of social media trends, platform behaviors, and best practices for internet-first content.
• Motion design skills are a strong plus.
• Expert-level fluency in creating for social platforms, especially Instagram and TikTok.
• Comfortable using native platform tools, features, formats, and publishing details.
• Genuine enthusiasm for making all kinds of content, from polished brand assets to quick-turn social ideas.

Responsibilities

• Concept, design, shoot, edit, and produce social-first assets across platforms, formats, and commerce content.
• Partner with writers, art directors, strategists, and producers to take ideas from brief to concept to final execution.
• Translate team thinking into multiple visual directions, showing a range of ways an idea can come to life including providing multiple social references to demonstrates concepts.
• Create work that feels native to social while staying true to the brand’s voice, look, and standards.
• Stay deeply tuned into platform behavior, visual trends, creator culture, memes, formats, and emerging internet aesthetics.
• Use motion, editing, typography, sound, and platform tools to make content more engaging and effective.
• Present creative options clearly, explaining the thinking behind the work.
• Curate design, motion, social, and cultural references that inspire stronger ideas and sharper execution.
• Manage multiple projects independently, moving quickly without sacrificing craft.
• Stay current on new tools, technology, production methods, and AI workflows that can improve how social content gets made.

Skills

Graphic design

On-camera presence

Photo & video

Social media trends

Motion design

Instagram & TikTok

Platform tools

Tools

Camera operation

Video editing software

Job description

Crispin seeks a freelance content creator who can design, shoot, edit, and produce social-first assets across major platforms. You’ll partner with writers, strategists, and producers to bring ideas from brief to final execution while staying on-brand and current with trends.

The role requires fast turnaround, strong visual storytelling, and comfort on camera across Instagram and TikTok. Start immediately as an hourly freelancer.