Content Creator

WHO WE ARE:

About McCann Content Studios

McCann Content Studios (MCS) is the global social content and influencer marketing practice within McCann - one of the world's most celebrated and enduring creative networks. At MCS we believe all great cultural ideas don’t start on a phone, but always end there. We deliver full-service social content, influencer marketing, and connected social commerce for some of the world's most iconic brands.

We sit at the intersection of culture, creativity, and community, producing platform native

content that earns attention and drives real business outcomes. Our team in Canada is a dynamic, entrepreneurial group of strategists, creators, and cultural thinkers who believe that the best ideas live where brand storytelling meets authentic human connection.

We are Creators. Instagram feeders, TikTok scrollers, YouTubers and makers of content for all audiences across platforms. We’re passionate storytellers for our brands and we’re looking for someone who can help us make eye-popping, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping content, whether they’re moving, still, animated, CGI’d, AI’d or even hand drawn. We love to collaborate with the unconventional creative pros who, above all else, are passionate makers and culture shakers.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for a Content Creator who is comfortable behind the camera, on the edit, and anywhere in between. Someone who can take a creative idea and turn it into engaging social content, from a quick reactive video to a more polished campaign asset.

You’re plugged into culture, understand how people are consuming content across platforms, and have a strong eye for what makes something feel native to social. You’re a hands-on maker who can shoot, edit and create content independently, while collaborating closely with Content Managers, Strategists, Creatives and other members of the team.

SKILLS:

• Ability to conceptualize social-first content ideas across platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Meta
• Connected to culture, trends and online conversations to help inform relevant content ideas
• Concept, shoot and edit engaging social content across video, photography and static formats
• Bring ideas to life from initial concept through production and final edit
• Create content for reactive workstreams, including quick-turnaround opportunities
• Contribute to always-on content calendars and campaign work
• Adapt larger campaign ideas into platform-native social content
• Understand how content should be tailored to different platforms, audiences and formats
• Ensure brand tone, voice and visual identity are reflected across content
• Adobe Suite proficiency

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create relevant, resonant, impactful, objective-oriented content across multiple brands McCann services
• Shoot and edit social-first video and photography using both professional equipment and mobile
• Manage multiple projects and priorities
• Turn existing brand and campaign assets into engaging social content, including clips, edits, GIFs, graphics and short-form video
• Create content assets built for individual platforms and audiences by working with a wide range of video and static imagery
• Participate in social shoots and support production from pre-production through to final delivery
• Collaborate with our production, creative, and strategy teams to create video, photography, social copy, gifs, clips, streaming stories, etc.
• Stay current on emerging formats, trends, creators and social behaviours and bring those insights into the work
• Ensure content is delivered on time and meets creative and technical requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• 3-5 years of experience in an advertising/production/social agency setting
• Strong understanding of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other social platforms
• Experience in building social-first creative concepts
• Online portfolio with relevant work examples
• Strong decision-making skills and a collaborative spirit
• Attention to detail and deadlines
• Experience working directly with clients
• Ability to adapt and manage multiple projects and priorities
• Full understanding of Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Premier Pro and After Effects
• Experience working with or within an agency environment is an asset

The salary range for this position is $75,000 - $90,000 per year. Compensation will be determined based on qualifications, relevant experience, and internal equity.

McCann Canada uses artificial intelligence in our recruitment process to enhance job postings and streamline the screening and selection of prospective candidates. Our team will then review top applicants, ensuring that human judgement guides our hiring decision.

This posting represents an active vacancy that we are currently hiring for.

The Company

McCann Canada is committed to a diverse workforce as an Employment Equity employer (Women, People with Disabilities, Aboriginal Peoples, and Visible Minorities) and aims to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace where employees feel valued, respected, and supported. If you require an accommodation, we would be happy to work with you to meet your needs.

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