Social Content Creator

Modern Action; United States; Remote; USD 21,000 - 39,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Part-time with potential full-time

Opportunity to grow with the team

Job summary

Modern Action is seeking a Social Content Creator to grow our audience across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, X, and LinkedIn. The role focuses on creating short-form videos, writing social copy, and testing formats to improve engagement.

You will repurpose existing content and quickly turn current events into compelling posts. You should be comfortable producing Reels, TikToks, and Shorts, with a knack for headlines, pacing, and retention.

Qualifications

• Experience with short-form content creation.
• Ability to craft strong hooks and pacing for social content.
• Fast learner with willingness to test ideas and iterate.
• Excellent writing skills and ability to simplify complex topics.

Responsibilities

• Create short-form videos for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
• Write hooks, scripts, captions, posts, and social copy.
• Film, edit, or produce short-form video content.
• Help grow Modern Action on multiple channels including X and LinkedIn.
• Turn current events and civic issues into understandable content.
• Repurpose newsletters, blog posts, and campaigns into social content.
• Create simple graphics or carousels when useful.
• Identify trends and content opportunities.
• Suggest and test new content ideas.
• Track performance and optimize based on metrics like views and signups.
• Collaborate with the founder to decide what to test and optimize.

Job description

Open role at Modern Action. Location: Remote, US-based preferred. Role type: Paid, part-time with option to become full-time.

About the Role

Modern Action is hiring a Social Content Creator to help grow our audience across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, X, LinkedIn, and other social channels. This is a content creation and social growth role. You will create short-form videos, write social posts, test new formats, study performance, and help us learn which topics, hooks, and formats help Modern Action reach more people. Short-form video is a major part of the role. You should be comfortable creating Reels, TikToks, Shorts, voiceovers, screen-recorded explainers, trend-based videos, and fast reactions to current events. The role also includes written social posts, content repurposing, simple graphics or carousels, and testing hooks, formats, and posting styles. We are still learning what works on each channel. Part of the job is to suggest ideas, test formats, study what works, and help Modern Action make content people understand, share, and act on. You do not need to be a policy expert. You do need to be curious, fast, creative, accurate, and willing to learn.

What You'll Do

• Create short-form videos for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
• Write hooks, scripts, captions, posts, and social copy.
• Film, edit, or produce short-form video content.
• Help grow Modern Action on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, X, LinkedIn, and other channels.
• Turn current events, legislation, and civic issues into content people can understand and engage with.
• Repurpose newsletters, blog posts, platform pages, and campaigns into social content.
• Create simple graphics, carousels, clips, or explainers when useful.
• Spot trends, civic news people can act on, and content opportunities.
• Suggest and test new content ideas.
• Track performance and improve based on views, watch time, shares, saves, comments, follows, signups, and site traffic.
• Work directly with the founder to decide what to test, what to improve, and what to double down on.

Who You Are

You might be a fit if: You understand short-form platforms and what makes people stop scrolling; you can write strong hooks; you move fast; you like testing ideas instead of waiting for a perfect plan; you can learn unfamiliar topics quickly; you are comfortable with current events and civic issues; you can explain complicated topics clearly without making them feel dumbed down; you have opinions about what works online and why; you are not precious about ideas and move on when something doesn't work; you care about making civic information more understandable and useful. Experience matters, but we are open to candidates who are early in their careers and clearly sharp, hungry, creative, and good at learning.

Must-Haves

• Proof that you understand short-form content.
• Willingness and ability to create short-form video.
• Ability to create content quickly.
• Strong sense of hooks, pacing, trends, and retention.
• Strong writing skills.
• Willingness to learn civic, political, and legislative topics.
• Comfort using tools like CapCut, TikTok/Instagram editors, Premiere, Descript, Canva, or similar.
• Ability to work remotely and communicate clearly.

Nice to Have

• Experience growing a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, X, LinkedIn, or creator account.
• Experience making educational, news, politics, history, finance, law, or explainer content.
• On-camera comfort.
• Basic graphic or design skills.
• Familiarity with Congress, elections, policy, or civic issues.
• Experience reading analytics and improving content based on performance.
• Experience repurposing long-form content into short-form social posts.

What Success Looks Like

Success means Modern Action's social audience is growing and our content is getting sharper over time. We care about follower growth, views, watch time and retention, shares, saves, comments, email signups, site traffic, output volume, and repeatable formats that work. This role is for someone who wants to help figure out what Modern Action should become on social, not just execute a fixed list of posts.