Billingual Content Creator / Account Manager, Social & Content

Edelman is looking for a bilingual Account Manager-level Content Creator to join our team of social media experts that plan, ideate and create the kind of agile content that the internet lives for.

We are looking for a candidate with a desire to be challenged and a hunger to make great work. You will be a social media native who loves making stories come to life across digital platforms and wants to create high-engagement, culturally- connected, entertainment-first content for some of the world’s best-known and most important brands.

As a Content Creator, you will play a leading role on integrated teams responsible for delivering exceptional social media content and running social channels across multiple sectors and industries.

You have hands-on experience concepting and creating content across platforms, with a particular focus on TikTok. You live and breath social and understand trends in news, social and culture and how to respond to them.

You’re familiar with social strategy and how to judge content performance, and you love to find creative ways to tell stories, make an impact, move fast and have fun doing it.

You often direct by doing, you show more than tell. You will build trusted relationships with clients and collaborate internally with strategy, digital, data, influencer, paid media and conceptual creative teams.

You will dare to be disruptive by introducing innovation into client programs and evolving our digital craft. Your will be able to ideate both real-time and planned content across platforms, with a particular emphasis on TikTok;

create mock-ups, scripts and storyboards; present and sell-in ideas internally and to clients; create or oversee the creation of content end-to-end, collaborating with DPs / editors / motion designers etc.

as applicable. We know you’re thinking isn’t Edelman a PR company? Sure, public relations is part of where we came from, but in recent years we’ve changed.

Edelman is a next-generation agency where you have the freedom to do great work and achieve professional fulfillment. Today, we have a strong creative team, outstanding planning capabilities, deep data expertise, and an exceptional team of digital specialists.

We’re passionate, unconventional and driven by a desire to do the best work possible. We get results for our clients and have the trophies to prove it.

Why Choose Edelman?

• At Edelman Digital Canada, we have a simple goal to be so good at our craft, that no one can ignore us. Join a team that wants to change the digital marketing landscape in Canada.
• Work with some of the largest brands and companies in Canada and impact their business daily.
• Feel inspired by your colleaguesand grow your knowledgewith the support of some of the best digital marketers in the country.
• Sharpen your skills every day with our focus on learning and development.
• Live our shared values and show up as your authentic self.
• Prove how good you are by tackling some of the most difficult business challenges out there.
• Build the future of digital marketing with the freedom to innovate and try new things.

What you'll bring :

• 2+ years of experience inagency or in-house marketing, advertising, digital or social teams.
• The ability to speak and create in French and English fluently.
• A proven ability to ideate and create content for social and digital platforms.
• A rich understanding of all social & digital channels, formats, trends, and culture.
• Experience ideating planned and agile content concepts across social platforms, with particular emphasis on TikTok and Instagram.
• Experience creating short form video & the links to show for it.
• Skill and comfort with shooting, editing and using all the tools in app, ideally also with CapCut.
• Experienced concepting and ideally designing using Photoshop or Canva visual assets such as memes, Instagram slideshows and social copy.
• Comfort working with video directors and editors to help achieve uplevelled creative goals.
• Familiarity with post-production, motion graphics, and what can be achieved using these.
• Familiarity with how to use and find social trends and data to inspire content concepts.
• Experience being both on and off camera is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and understanding of creative and content creation workflows.
• Highly experienced in planning and organization
• A team-first mentality, working with your account teams and other specialty teams to deliver our best thinking for our clients’ business assignments.
• Strong critical thinking, presenting and communications skills.
• We are particularly interested in candidates who have some design as well as video creation skill. VFX or animation experience is a bonus.

Benefits and Perks

• Hybrid, flexible work model with remote working and purpose-based time in office.
• 3 week'spaid vacation, plus days of for your birthday and curiosity day.
• Statutory public holidays,National Truth and Reconciliation Day and World Mental Health Day
• Holiday office closure (Christmas - New Year)
• Half-day Fridays during summer long weekends
• Flexible sick Days
• Dusk till Dawn email policy
• Employer paid benefits
• Wellness / Fitness annual allowance
• Tuition Reimbursement policy

If you are interested in applying for this role, please send your résumé. Only those candidates shortlisted for an interview will be contacted.

Thank you for your interest in working with Edelman Canada. #LI-PP1Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations.

Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders.

Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year;

and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business.

Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).

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